GE to Edith Harriet Kittermaster, Foleshill, [14 June 1841?] 323
Title
GE to Edith Harriet Kittermaster, Foleshill, [14 June 1841?] 323
Title
GE to Edith Harriet Kittermaster, Foleshill, [14 June 1841?] 323
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Edith Harriet Kittermaster
Date(s)
- 1841-06-14
Place
FOLESHILL
Letter Content
GE to Edith Harriet Kittermaster, Foleshill, [14 June 1841?] 323
MS: Facsimile in Minoru Toyoda, Studies in the Mental Development of George Eliot, Tokyo, 1931.
My dear Miss Kittermaster,
Your kindness is like your own roses -- it buds and blooms maugre the chill winds that are always blowing in these nether regions. I know of no libation worthy of it but a flood of tears, for strange to say that is the best demonstration of joy and gratitude: I suppose because we feel like an exile from some sunny eastern clime beholding a picture of his own bright home, when we receive such exotic favours as those of purely affectionate attention.
According to an approved method of expressing thanks, may you never want such lovely [germs of things unperishing] as you have supplied me with, and as a very trifling return accept a name for which I have searched among my floral emblems -- namely Honeysuckle which being interpreted is [bond of love,] because it very gently winds and winds about us till we cannot detach it nor would we when we have found out all the agrémens it brings us. Give my kind remembrances to all of yours that I know and believe me
Yours very truly
Mary Ann Evans.
Foleshill Road Monday Morning.
MS: Facsimile in Minoru Toyoda, Studies in the Mental Development of George Eliot, Tokyo, 1931.
My dear Miss Kittermaster,
Your kindness is like your own roses -- it buds and blooms maugre the chill winds that are always blowing in these nether regions. I know of no libation worthy of it but a flood of tears, for strange to say that is the best demonstration of joy and gratitude: I suppose because we feel like an exile from some sunny eastern clime beholding a picture of his own bright home, when we receive such exotic favours as those of purely affectionate attention.
According to an approved method of expressing thanks, may you never want such lovely [germs of things unperishing] as you have supplied me with, and as a very trifling return accept a name for which I have searched among my floral emblems -- namely Honeysuckle which being interpreted is [bond of love,] because it very gently winds and winds about us till we cannot detach it nor would we when we have found out all the agrémens it brings us. Give my kind remembrances to all of yours that I know and believe me
Yours very truly
Mary Ann Evans.
Foleshill Road Monday Morning.
Signature
Mary Ann Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Edith Harriet Kittermaster, Foleshill, [14 June 1841?] 323, 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/92271