GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 19 September 1880
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 19 September 1880
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 19 September 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1880-09-19
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 19 September 1880
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, pp. 242-244.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
September 19. 80.
Dearest Boy
The Sat. Review arrived and I was very glad to have it. The article, I think, is nicely done. 480 I wonder how the volumes go on selling.
Your [news-letter] was very welcome, and I was especially glad to know that Gertrude tries to keep up her health by little devices of change, which help to keep the mind from too constant a self-consciousness.
Susanna sent me a card yesterday to say that Baby (with whom the parents had hurried home in great alarm) is now getting well.
I want to know Eliza's new address, that I may send her the cheque for September, but I suppose that she is sure to send me word when she has decided on her new home. It was a disappointment to me to find that she had quarrelled with her new hosts, for in writing to me she described everything as quite satisfactory.
Johnnie sympathizes with your disgust at the too too solid flesh that will not melt, 481 but at present we are rejoiced that he is laying on a little flesh. He improves daily, and we supply the want of regular lawn tennis by in-door battledore and shuttlecock, at which I am becoming an expert with both right and left hand. One advantage of our high drawing-room is its fitness for this exercise, which warms one better, and exercises more muscles, than walking. Our neighbours are very attentive and oblige us to make calls in return, but otherwise we have been enjoying entire quiet since our return from Cambridgeshire. The rain is pouring down steadily again, and Mrs. Congreve writes that there is still wheat out in Warwickshire. It is exasperating that more haste is not made during the fine weather. Did you see in the Times the account of the American farmer who has 75000 acres? Johnnie unites his love to that of your loving
Mutter.
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, pp. 242-244.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
September 19. 80.
Dearest Boy
The Sat. Review arrived and I was very glad to have it. The article, I think, is nicely done. 480 I wonder how the volumes go on selling.
Your [news-letter] was very welcome, and I was especially glad to know that Gertrude tries to keep up her health by little devices of change, which help to keep the mind from too constant a self-consciousness.
Susanna sent me a card yesterday to say that Baby (with whom the parents had hurried home in great alarm) is now getting well.
I want to know Eliza's new address, that I may send her the cheque for September, but I suppose that she is sure to send me word when she has decided on her new home. It was a disappointment to me to find that she had quarrelled with her new hosts, for in writing to me she described everything as quite satisfactory.
Johnnie sympathizes with your disgust at the too too solid flesh that will not melt, 481 but at present we are rejoiced that he is laying on a little flesh. He improves daily, and we supply the want of regular lawn tennis by in-door battledore and shuttlecock, at which I am becoming an expert with both right and left hand. One advantage of our high drawing-room is its fitness for this exercise, which warms one better, and exercises more muscles, than walking. Our neighbours are very attentive and oblige us to make calls in return, but otherwise we have been enjoying entire quiet since our return from Cambridgeshire. The rain is pouring down steadily again, and Mrs. Congreve writes that there is still wheat out in Warwickshire. It is exasperating that more haste is not made during the fine weather. Did you see in the Times the account of the American farmer who has 75000 acres? Johnnie unites his love to that of your loving
Mutter.
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 19 September 1880, 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/92238