GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 4 April [1851]
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 4 April [1851]
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 4 April [1851]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Chapman
Date(s)
- 1851-04-04
Place
COVENTRY
Letter Content
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 4 April [1851]
MS: Berg Collection, New York Public Library. Published: B. C. Williams, George Eliot, New York, 1936, pp. 69-70.
Rosehill | April 4.
Dear Mr. Chapman
I send you in another envelope a note written under my first impression on reading your packet of letters. 948 On further consideration I consent to continue the Catalogue, since I am ashamed of perpetual vacillations, on condition that you state or rather, I should hope, re-state to Mrs. C. the fact that I am doing it, not because I [like,] but in compliance with your request. You are aware that I never had the slightest wish to undertake the thing on my own account. If I continue it, it will be with the utmost repugnance, and only on the understanding that I shall accept no remuneration.
Yours etc.
Marian Evans.
MS: Berg Collection, New York Public Library. Published: B. C. Williams, George Eliot, New York, 1936, pp. 69-70.
Rosehill | April 4.
Dear Mr. Chapman
I send you in another envelope a note written under my first impression on reading your packet of letters. 948 On further consideration I consent to continue the Catalogue, since I am ashamed of perpetual vacillations, on condition that you state or rather, I should hope, re-state to Mrs. C. the fact that I am doing it, not because I [like,] but in compliance with your request. You are aware that I never had the slightest wish to undertake the thing on my own account. If I continue it, it will be with the utmost repugnance, and only on the understanding that I shall accept no remuneration.
Yours etc.
Marian Evans.
Signature
Marian Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 4 April [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/92784