GE to Frederick Locker, London, 16 December 1871
Title
GE to Frederick Locker, London, 16 December 1871
Title
GE to Frederick Locker, London, 16 December 1871
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Frederick Locker
Date(s)
- 1871-12-16
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Frederick Locker, London, 16 December 1871
MS: Harvard. Envelope: Frederick Locker Esq | 91 Victoria Street | Westminster. Postmark: LONDON-N.W | 3 | DE 18 | 71. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
December 16. 71.
Dear Mr. Locker
Pray thank Mrs. Tollemache on my behalf for her kind gift. I read a long way in "Spanish Towns and Spanish Pictures" 425 immediately on opening the cover, led on by the fascination which the subject always has for me.
Some day, I hope, we shall go to Spain again along the route taken by Mrs. Tollemache, and carry her book with us. We have not yet seen Burgos and the north-western towns. Our course was from San Sebastian to Saragossa and Barcelona, then southward; and we returned from Seville to Madrid. After the pleasant introduction this book gives me to Mrs. Tollemache I shall think agreeably of the possibility that I may make her personal acquaintance.
Your cares about Lady Charlotte 426 are such as I can enter into with much fellow-feeling. We pay a heavy price in anxiety for the blessedness of loving. Our evening which gave me a little vision of her will always be a memory that I shall like to recal. 427 Do not forget us, and believe me
Always sincerely yours
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Harvard. Envelope: Frederick Locker Esq | 91 Victoria Street | Westminster. Postmark: LONDON-N.W | 3 | DE 18 | 71. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
December 16. 71.
Dear Mr. Locker
Pray thank Mrs. Tollemache on my behalf for her kind gift. I read a long way in "Spanish Towns and Spanish Pictures" 425 immediately on opening the cover, led on by the fascination which the subject always has for me.
Some day, I hope, we shall go to Spain again along the route taken by Mrs. Tollemache, and carry her book with us. We have not yet seen Burgos and the north-western towns. Our course was from San Sebastian to Saragossa and Barcelona, then southward; and we returned from Seville to Madrid. After the pleasant introduction this book gives me to Mrs. Tollemache I shall think agreeably of the possibility that I may make her personal acquaintance.
Your cares about Lady Charlotte 426 are such as I can enter into with much fellow-feeling. We pay a heavy price in anxiety for the blessedness of loving. Our evening which gave me a little vision of her will always be a memory that I shall like to recal. 427 Do not forget us, and believe me
Always sincerely yours
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Frederick Locker, London, 16 December 1871, 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/92445