GE to Isaac Pearson Evans, St. Mary's, 16 April [1857]
Title
GE to Isaac Pearson Evans, St. Mary's, 16 April [1857]
Title
GE to Isaac Pearson Evans, St. Mary's, 16 April [1857]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Isaac Pearson Evans
Date(s)
- 1857-04-16
Place
St. Mary's
Letter Content
GE to Isaac Pearson Evans, St. Mary's, 16 April [1857]
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Address: I. P. Evans, Esqre | Griffe 835 | near Nuneaton | Warwickshire. Postmarks: SCILLY | AP 16 | 1857; PENZANCE | AP 18 | 1857. NUNEATON | AP 20 | 1857. Published: Cross, I, 442-443.
St. Mary's | Scilly Isles | April 16.
My dear Brother
I have been looking anxiously for some further tidings of Chrissey since your last letter which told me that she and Kate were better, though not out of danger. I try to hope that no news is good news, but if you do not think it troublesome to write, I shall be thankful to have that hope changed into certainty.
Meanwhile to save multiplying letters, which I know you are not fond of, I mention now what will take no harm from being mentioned rather prematurely. I should like Chrissey to have £15 of my next half-year's income due at the beginning of June, to spend in taking a change of air as soon as she is able to do so; and perhaps if it were desirable for her to leave before the money has been paid in, you would be so kind as to advance it for a few weeks. I am writing of course in ignorance of her actual state, but I should think it must be good for her, as soon as she is able to move, to leave that fever-infected place for a time with Katy, and I know the money must have gone very fast in recent expenses. I only suggest the change of air as the thing that I should think best for Chrissey, but in any case I should like her to have the money to do what she pleases with it. 836 If she is well enough, please give her the enclosed note, in which I have suggested to her what I have just written to you.
I was much obliged to you for your last letter, and shall be still more so, if you will write me word of Chrissey's present condition. Hoping you are all well at your own home, I am ever
Your affectionate sister,
Marian Evans.
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Address: I. P. Evans, Esqre | Griffe 835 | near Nuneaton | Warwickshire. Postmarks: SCILLY | AP 16 | 1857; PENZANCE | AP 18 | 1857. NUNEATON | AP 20 | 1857. Published: Cross, I, 442-443.
St. Mary's | Scilly Isles | April 16.
My dear Brother
I have been looking anxiously for some further tidings of Chrissey since your last letter which told me that she and Kate were better, though not out of danger. I try to hope that no news is good news, but if you do not think it troublesome to write, I shall be thankful to have that hope changed into certainty.
Meanwhile to save multiplying letters, which I know you are not fond of, I mention now what will take no harm from being mentioned rather prematurely. I should like Chrissey to have £15 of my next half-year's income due at the beginning of June, to spend in taking a change of air as soon as she is able to do so; and perhaps if it were desirable for her to leave before the money has been paid in, you would be so kind as to advance it for a few weeks. I am writing of course in ignorance of her actual state, but I should think it must be good for her, as soon as she is able to move, to leave that fever-infected place for a time with Katy, and I know the money must have gone very fast in recent expenses. I only suggest the change of air as the thing that I should think best for Chrissey, but in any case I should like her to have the money to do what she pleases with it. 836 If she is well enough, please give her the enclosed note, in which I have suggested to her what I have just written to you.
I was much obliged to you for your last letter, and shall be still more so, if you will write me word of Chrissey's present condition. Hoping you are all well at your own home, I am ever
Your affectionate sister,
Marian Evans.
Signature
Marian Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Isaac Pearson Evans, St. Mary's, 16 April [1857], 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/92539