GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Wandsworth, 4 January 1860
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Wandsworth, 4 January 1860
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Wandsworth, 4 January 1860
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1860-01-04
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Wandsworth, 4 January 1860
Text: Cross, II, 153-154.
The sun is shining with us too, and your pleasant letter made it seem to shine more brightly. I am not going to be expansive in this appendix to your father's chapter of love and news, for my head is tired with writing this morning -- it is not so young as yours, you know, and, besides, is a feminine head, supported by weaker muscles, and a weaker digestive apparatus than that of a young gentleman with a broad chest and hopeful whiskers. I don't wonder at your being more conscious of your attachment to Hofwyl now the time of leaving is so near. I fear you will miss a great many things in exchanging Hofwyl, with its snowy mountains and glorious spaces, for a very moderate home in the neighbourhood of London. You will have a less various, more arduous life: but the time of Entbehrung or Entsagung must begin, you know, for every mortal of us. And let us hope that we shall all -- father and mother and sons -- help one another with love.
What jolly times you have had lately! It did us good to read of your merrymaking.
Text: Cross, II, 153-154.
The sun is shining with us too, and your pleasant letter made it seem to shine more brightly. I am not going to be expansive in this appendix to your father's chapter of love and news, for my head is tired with writing this morning -- it is not so young as yours, you know, and, besides, is a feminine head, supported by weaker muscles, and a weaker digestive apparatus than that of a young gentleman with a broad chest and hopeful whiskers. I don't wonder at your being more conscious of your attachment to Hofwyl now the time of leaving is so near. I fear you will miss a great many things in exchanging Hofwyl, with its snowy mountains and glorious spaces, for a very moderate home in the neighbourhood of London. You will have a less various, more arduous life: but the time of Entbehrung or Entsagung must begin, you know, for every mortal of us. And let us hope that we shall all -- father and mother and sons -- help one another with love.
What jolly times you have had lately! It did us good to read of your merrymaking.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Wandsworth, 4 January 1860, 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/92225