GE to Charles Bray, [London, 29 June 1852]
Title
GE to Charles Bray, [London, 29 June 1852]
Title
GE to Charles Bray, [London, 29 June 1852]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Bray
Date(s)
- 1852-06-29
Place
[London]
Letter Content
GE to Charles Bray, [London, 29 June 1852]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: July 28. 1852. Hitherto unpublished.
Tuesday.
Dear Friend
It flashed across my mind yesterday that I had never answered Cara's question about Alison on [Population.] 125 Mr. Chapman has it. Pray did he purchase of you Mill's [Analysis of the Human Mind,] 126 or have you it still? Thank you a thousand times for the ribbon. But you sent me some rather hard words with it. I am not going to the coast with any one 127 -- but simply to do my health good -- heaven knows with need enough. Shall you not be better pleased to see me looking bright and well than sad and wizened? For I mean to go to you after I come back, if you will have me then.
You are to be pleased to accept half the Catalogues sent as a present from me -- Mr. C. will have it so.
Geo. Combe is indefatigable in writing and thinking for us. I hope some good will come to Mr. C. from his efforts. Our next number will be worth reading, I think. Don't you see what a splendid list of subjects we have? 128
Best of loves to Cara. By the bye, I must tell you that Miss Florence Nightingale has read the Philosophy of Necessity and asked about you -- as an author. 129 In haste
Yours affectionately
Marian Evans.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: July 28. 1852. Hitherto unpublished.
Tuesday.
Dear Friend
It flashed across my mind yesterday that I had never answered Cara's question about Alison on [Population.] 125 Mr. Chapman has it. Pray did he purchase of you Mill's [Analysis of the Human Mind,] 126 or have you it still? Thank you a thousand times for the ribbon. But you sent me some rather hard words with it. I am not going to the coast with any one 127 -- but simply to do my health good -- heaven knows with need enough. Shall you not be better pleased to see me looking bright and well than sad and wizened? For I mean to go to you after I come back, if you will have me then.
You are to be pleased to accept half the Catalogues sent as a present from me -- Mr. C. will have it so.
Geo. Combe is indefatigable in writing and thinking for us. I hope some good will come to Mr. C. from his efforts. Our next number will be worth reading, I think. Don't you see what a splendid list of subjects we have? 128
Best of loves to Cara. By the bye, I must tell you that Miss Florence Nightingale has read the Philosophy of Necessity and asked about you -- as an author. 129 In haste
Yours affectionately
Marian Evans.
Signature
Marian Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Bray, [London, 29 June 1852], Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/92089