GE to Charles Bray, London, [29 October 1853]
Title
GE to Charles Bray, London, [29 October 1853]
Title
GE to Charles Bray, London, [29 October 1853]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Bray
Date(s)
- 1853-10-29
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Charles Bray, London, [29 October 1853]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Oct. 29. 1853. Extracts published: Cross, I, 315.
Cambridge St.
Dear Friend
If you find your proposition about the Bookcase a feasible one, I shall be very glad to have it put in practice soon, as I wish to exchange my present one for a Library Table, of which I am sorely in need.
I had a great deal of chat yesterday with Sir John Forbes, 381 and found him, as you might expect from his books of travel, a very pleasant, unaffected man. Everybody is talking of the article on the Church in the Edinbro' Review. 382 Forbes is immensely tickled by your story about saddling the prophet instead of the ass, which the writer of said article has put in a note. You should read the article in the Quarterly on Electro-Biology -- it is by Dr. Carpenter 383 -- a "naked neddy" in your esteem, but still the first physiologist in England.
Last night I saw the first fine specimen of a man in the shape of a clergyman that I ever met with -- Dawes, the Dean of Hereford. 384 He is the man who has been making the experiment of mingling the middle and lower classes in schools. He has a face so intelligent and benignant that children might grow good by looking at it. [Four words deleted.]
Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are just gone, and have brought me the bit of ribbon which Mr. C. forgot to give me the other day. Thanks. Harriet Martineau called yesterday -- looking fatter than ever. She is going to her Brother's 385 at Birmingham soon. Mrs. Wills 386 came with her -- a nice little Scotch woman, a small edition of Robert Chambers, her brother. Love to Sara and Cara.
Yours ever
Marian Evans.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Oct. 29. 1853. Extracts published: Cross, I, 315.
Cambridge St.
Dear Friend
If you find your proposition about the Bookcase a feasible one, I shall be very glad to have it put in practice soon, as I wish to exchange my present one for a Library Table, of which I am sorely in need.
I had a great deal of chat yesterday with Sir John Forbes, 381 and found him, as you might expect from his books of travel, a very pleasant, unaffected man. Everybody is talking of the article on the Church in the Edinbro' Review. 382 Forbes is immensely tickled by your story about saddling the prophet instead of the ass, which the writer of said article has put in a note. You should read the article in the Quarterly on Electro-Biology -- it is by Dr. Carpenter 383 -- a "naked neddy" in your esteem, but still the first physiologist in England.
Last night I saw the first fine specimen of a man in the shape of a clergyman that I ever met with -- Dawes, the Dean of Hereford. 384 He is the man who has been making the experiment of mingling the middle and lower classes in schools. He has a face so intelligent and benignant that children might grow good by looking at it. [Four words deleted.]
Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are just gone, and have brought me the bit of ribbon which Mr. C. forgot to give me the other day. Thanks. Harriet Martineau called yesterday -- looking fatter than ever. She is going to her Brother's 385 at Birmingham soon. Mrs. Wills 386 came with her -- a nice little Scotch woman, a small edition of Robert Chambers, her brother. Love to Sara and Cara.
Yours ever
Marian Evans.
Signature
Marian Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Bray, London, [29 October 1853], 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/92125