GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 28 August 1880
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 28 August 1880
Title
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 28 August 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1880-08-28
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 28 August 1880
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, pp. 240-241.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 28. 80.
Dearest Boy
I have been expecting to hear from you again for the last ten days, and though I trust the proverb, especially when there are five travelling together, I cannot help being anxious lest you should not have received my letter, written close on receiving yours and addressed as you desired to the Hotel at Champ'e9ry. I send this note to Elm Cottage that you may not suppose me on any ground to have been forgetful of you. For we are going now to Ranby to see Mr. and Mrs. Otter and shall in returning pay a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Hall, so that if a letter came from you during the next week it would probably lie unopened till the 7th or 8th.
I imagine you must have had brilliant days, for here we have had excellent harvest weather though the mornings have been often as misty as if it were the end of the old fashioned September. The heat has not, I hope, been too great for Gertrude to get strength from change and exercise. Send me an account of yourselves.
Johnnie gets a little better every day, and so each day is more enjoyable. But I am decidedly less well than I was when abroad. There is something languorous in this climate or rather in its effects.
Thy loving
Mutter.
MS: Yale. Published: Paterson, pp. 240-241.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 28. 80.
Dearest Boy
I have been expecting to hear from you again for the last ten days, and though I trust the proverb, especially when there are five travelling together, I cannot help being anxious lest you should not have received my letter, written close on receiving yours and addressed as you desired to the Hotel at Champ'e9ry. I send this note to Elm Cottage that you may not suppose me on any ground to have been forgetful of you. For we are going now to Ranby to see Mr. and Mrs. Otter and shall in returning pay a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Hall, so that if a letter came from you during the next week it would probably lie unopened till the 7th or 8th.
I imagine you must have had brilliant days, for here we have had excellent harvest weather though the mornings have been often as misty as if it were the end of the old fashioned September. The heat has not, I hope, been too great for Gertrude to get strength from change and exercise. Send me an account of yourselves.
Johnnie gets a little better every day, and so each day is more enjoyable. But I am decidedly less well than I was when abroad. There is something languorous in this climate or rather in its effects.
Thy loving
Mutter.
Signature
Mutter.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Charles Lee Lewes, Witley, 28 August 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/92244