GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 14 September 1851
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 14 September 1851
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 14 September 1851
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Chapman
Date(s)
- 1851-09-14
Place
Coventry
Letter Content
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 14 September 1851
Text: Copy by Edmund Gosse, National Library of Scotland. Extract published, I, 360.
Rosehill, September 14.
My dear Friend
A trip to Brighton on this perfect autumn day may be a good thing, but lying on the grass is a better. 46 I wonder you will commit yourself to an excursion train. Heaven send you may not return home piecemeal.
Thanks for your note which with its enclosures reached me yesterday. I am glad your conscience does not accuse you about the Hickson business -- or rather glad to believe that it has no reason to do so.
Write to [Froude] by all means, and if he declines to choose a subject, we will do it for him. 47
Yours faithfully
Marian E.
The Combes 48 are coming again on Tuesday! After them Mr. Noel. 49
Text: Copy by Edmund Gosse, National Library of Scotland. Extract published, I, 360.
Rosehill, September 14.
My dear Friend
A trip to Brighton on this perfect autumn day may be a good thing, but lying on the grass is a better. 46 I wonder you will commit yourself to an excursion train. Heaven send you may not return home piecemeal.
Thanks for your note which with its enclosures reached me yesterday. I am glad your conscience does not accuse you about the Hickson business -- or rather glad to believe that it has no reason to do so.
Write to [Froude] by all means, and if he declines to choose a subject, we will do it for him. 47
Yours faithfully
Marian E.
The Combes 48 are coming again on Tuesday! After them Mr. Noel. 49
Signature
Marian E.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 14 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/92781