GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 18 June 1879
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 18 June 1879
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 18 June 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1879-06-18
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 18 June 1879
MS: Mrs. Carrington Ouvry. Hitherto unpublished.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
June 18. 79.
Dearest Boy
Is was sadly dreamy of me to forget that the cupboard was locked up, especially as I did the locking myself. I think your plan of writing to Mr. Rossiter is the best, if you will kindly take that trouble.
I am writing in bed, where I have been almost constantly since Sunday, owing to a troublesome pain, but I am feeling easy now and shall try getting up today. My head has been free, and the trouble has been local, but too irritating to allow of my reading though I have been able to write letters. The affair is of no importance -- only a little deposit of acid crystals in the wrong place.
Thank you for sending me the poetic address and the extract from the Standard. A rather bulky fruit of "Merman" 273 has come to me in a letter of I don't know how many pages from one who feels himself wronged by critics. It is a curiosity worth preserving.
Last week I received a letter from Mr. Warren 274 saying that the next court of Manor is to be held on the 26th and sending me Beddoes' account of the Fines and Fees to be paid on the Copyhold. They amount to £364.11.10, and though Mr. W. said there was no necessity for my being entered at this next court, I thought it better to have done with it, and have drawn the £400 from deposit, sending Mr. Warren the cheque. The Succession Duty will not have to be paid till a year from the 30th of November. Mr. Cross has managed the matter for me, as he is constantly at the Bank. His firm has £30,000 in deposit for clients.
I shall enclose with this letter the cheques for your Mamma and Eliza, since I suppose you have ascertained that no extra money is wanted at Kensington. 275
I am ruminating over the possibility of having Eliza and the 2 children along with you and Gertrude etc. in July. If it were decided on I could have Maud in my bed the two nights that you were here. But do not speak of it to Eliza until the thing is resolved on.
The exceptionally fine weather you had on Saturday rejoiced me for your sake, but alas how little of that blessing we have to rejoice in! The hay-harvest is grievously threatened.
I am going to test myself by getting up now, so goodbye. Love to all from
Your loving Mutter.
I was glad to know Mr. Harrison's opinion, for naturally though he has written to me about other things he, no more than other friends, writes about Theo[phrastus]. And now I am alone I need the more assurance that I have not published superfluously.
Have you seen any article on the Psychology? I suppose not, else you would have told me. I sent Ballantyne's the first batch of M.S. on Friday and was comforted by a telegram the next day assuring me that it had arrived safely.
I wrote [cheques] but of course I only send one
I cross it for safety, and suppose that the identity of Bank is no real difficulty.
MS: Mrs. Carrington Ouvry. Hitherto unpublished.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
June 18. 79.
Dearest Boy
Is was sadly dreamy of me to forget that the cupboard was locked up, especially as I did the locking myself. I think your plan of writing to Mr. Rossiter is the best, if you will kindly take that trouble.
I am writing in bed, where I have been almost constantly since Sunday, owing to a troublesome pain, but I am feeling easy now and shall try getting up today. My head has been free, and the trouble has been local, but too irritating to allow of my reading though I have been able to write letters. The affair is of no importance -- only a little deposit of acid crystals in the wrong place.
Thank you for sending me the poetic address and the extract from the Standard. A rather bulky fruit of "Merman" 273 has come to me in a letter of I don't know how many pages from one who feels himself wronged by critics. It is a curiosity worth preserving.
Last week I received a letter from Mr. Warren 274 saying that the next court of Manor is to be held on the 26th and sending me Beddoes' account of the Fines and Fees to be paid on the Copyhold. They amount to £364.11.10, and though Mr. W. said there was no necessity for my being entered at this next court, I thought it better to have done with it, and have drawn the £400 from deposit, sending Mr. Warren the cheque. The Succession Duty will not have to be paid till a year from the 30th of November. Mr. Cross has managed the matter for me, as he is constantly at the Bank. His firm has £30,000 in deposit for clients.
I shall enclose with this letter the cheques for your Mamma and Eliza, since I suppose you have ascertained that no extra money is wanted at Kensington. 275
I am ruminating over the possibility of having Eliza and the 2 children along with you and Gertrude etc. in July. If it were decided on I could have Maud in my bed the two nights that you were here. But do not speak of it to Eliza until the thing is resolved on.
The exceptionally fine weather you had on Saturday rejoiced me for your sake, but alas how little of that blessing we have to rejoice in! The hay-harvest is grievously threatened.
I am going to test myself by getting up now, so goodbye. Love to all from
Your loving Mutter.
I was glad to know Mr. Harrison's opinion, for naturally though he has written to me about other things he, no more than other friends, writes about Theo[phrastus]. And now I am alone I need the more assurance that I have not published superfluously.
Have you seen any article on the Psychology? I suppose not, else you would have told me. I sent Ballantyne's the first batch of M.S. on Friday and was comforted by a telegram the next day assuring me that it had arrived safely.
I wrote [cheques] but of course I only send one
I cross it for safety, and suppose that the identity of Bank is no real difficulty.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 18 June 1879, 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/92237