GE to James Anthony Froude, [Wandsworth, 17 March 1859]
Title
GE to James Anthony Froude, [Wandsworth, 17 March 1859]
Title
GE to James Anthony Froude, [Wandsworth, 17 March 1859]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
James Anthony Froude
Date(s)
- 1859-03-17
Place
[Wandsworth]
Letter Content
GE to James Anthony Froude, [Wandsworth, 17 March 1859]
MS: National Library of Scotland. Published: Cross, II, 94.
To J. A. Froude Esq.
Dear Sir
My excellent friend and publisher, Mr. Blackwood, lends me his pen to thank you for your letter, and for his sake I shall be brief.
Your letter has done me real good -- the same sort of good as one has sometimes felt from a silent pressure of the hand and a grave look in the midst of smiling congratulations.
I have nothing else I care to tell you that you will not have found out through my books, except this one thing: that, so far as I am aware, you are only the second person who has shared my own satisfaction in Janet. 71 I think she is the least popular of my characters. You will judge from that, that it was worth your while to tell me what you felt about her.
I wish I could help you with words of equal value -- but after all am I not helping you by saying that it was well and generously done of you, to write to me?
Ever faithfully yours
George Eliot.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Published: Cross, II, 94.
To J. A. Froude Esq.
Dear Sir
My excellent friend and publisher, Mr. Blackwood, lends me his pen to thank you for your letter, and for his sake I shall be brief.
Your letter has done me real good -- the same sort of good as one has sometimes felt from a silent pressure of the hand and a grave look in the midst of smiling congratulations.
I have nothing else I care to tell you that you will not have found out through my books, except this one thing: that, so far as I am aware, you are only the second person who has shared my own satisfaction in Janet. 71 I think she is the least popular of my characters. You will judge from that, that it was worth your while to tell me what you felt about her.
I wish I could help you with words of equal value -- but after all am I not helping you by saying that it was well and generously done of you, to write to me?
Ever faithfully yours
George Eliot.
Signature
George Eliot.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to James Anthony Froude, [Wandsworth, 17 March 1859], 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/92541