GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 11 September [1851]
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 11 September [1851]
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 11 September [1851]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Chapman
Date(s)
- 1851-09-11
Place
COVENTRY
Letter Content
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 11 September [1851]
MS: Kroch's Bookstores, Inc., Chicago. Endorsed: Miss Evans. 1851. Hitherto unpublished.
Rosehill | September 11.
My dear Friend
I received your missive this morning in perfect safety -- Nos. 38310 and 38311 are with me awaiting their halves. 991 I think you had better ask Froude if there is any subject of a fascinating character on which he has been occupied lately or which he would like to throw into the form of an article. 992
Mr. Bray thinks Hickson's letter rather unpleasant. I shewed it him because he is interested in the business part of the affair. Have you really departed from any agreement made with Hickson, by the move about the Prospectus? Mr. Mackay wants whipping in evidently. It would not do to trust him for an article absolutely wanted. 993 So James Martineau will write after all! 994 I agree with you that the practical result of an article by him will be much the same as one written entirely in our sense and I am clear that no one else on our list would do it so well -- Greg is the next best -- but he has as many deficiencies in one way as J.M. has in another.
The Combes have given you a false idea about my health. I happened not to be well when they were here 995 -- but I am really strong and healthy -- and hope to bring a mens sana in corpore sano to London. We have
Collet Dobson 996 here and his coadjutor -- Miss Hincks. They are to give a musical entertainment tonight.
I wish you would see if I can have the same piano again as I had when in town before, and make the man let me have it for 16s. per month which is quite enough.
Yours faithfully
Marian Evans.
MS: Kroch's Bookstores, Inc., Chicago. Endorsed: Miss Evans. 1851. Hitherto unpublished.
Rosehill | September 11.
My dear Friend
I received your missive this morning in perfect safety -- Nos. 38310 and 38311 are with me awaiting their halves. 991 I think you had better ask Froude if there is any subject of a fascinating character on which he has been occupied lately or which he would like to throw into the form of an article. 992
Mr. Bray thinks Hickson's letter rather unpleasant. I shewed it him because he is interested in the business part of the affair. Have you really departed from any agreement made with Hickson, by the move about the Prospectus? Mr. Mackay wants whipping in evidently. It would not do to trust him for an article absolutely wanted. 993 So James Martineau will write after all! 994 I agree with you that the practical result of an article by him will be much the same as one written entirely in our sense and I am clear that no one else on our list would do it so well -- Greg is the next best -- but he has as many deficiencies in one way as J.M. has in another.
The Combes have given you a false idea about my health. I happened not to be well when they were here 995 -- but I am really strong and healthy -- and hope to bring a mens sana in corpore sano to London. We have
Collet Dobson 996 here and his coadjutor -- Miss Hincks. They are to give a musical entertainment tonight.
I wish you would see if I can have the same piano again as I had when in town before, and make the man let me have it for 16s. per month which is quite enough.
Yours faithfully
Marian Evans.
Signature
Marian Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 11 September [1851], 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/92777