GE to John Chapman, Dover, 20 March 1855
Title
GE to John Chapman, Dover, 20 March 1855
Title
GE to John Chapman, Dover, 20 March 1855
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Chapman
Date(s)
- 1855-03-20
Place
Dover
Letter Content
GE to John Chapman, Dover, 20 March 1855
Text: Maggs Bros. Catalogue 314 (September -- October 1913), item 2817.
Dear Friend
I wrote to you in a hurry the other day and had not time to express what I really feel -- thorough sympathy with you under this terrible trial of illness. Indeed in my first hasty reading of your letter I did not fully bring before myself the meaning of the words [three weeks in bed from disease of the left lung.] But now I do so I am grieved to think of what you must have suffered, so I write this note from old friendship, mixed with business. . . .
There is no use in this letter, to be sure, but I can't help writing it.
Text: Maggs Bros. Catalogue 314 (September -- October 1913), item 2817.
Dear Friend
I wrote to you in a hurry the other day and had not time to express what I really feel -- thorough sympathy with you under this terrible trial of illness. Indeed in my first hasty reading of your letter I did not fully bring before myself the meaning of the words [three weeks in bed from disease of the left lung.] But now I do so I am grieved to think of what you must have suffered, so I write this note from old friendship, mixed with business. . . .
There is no use in this letter, to be sure, but I can't help writing it.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Chapman, Dover, 20 March 1855, 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/92787