GE to John Walter Cross, London, 3 June 1876
Title
GE to John Walter Cross, London, 3 June 1876
Title
GE to John Walter Cross, London, 3 June 1876
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Walter Cross
Date(s)
- 1876-06-03
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to John Walter Cross, London, 3 June 1876
MS: Yale. Envelope: J. W. Cross, Esq. | Weybridge Heath | S.W. Postmarks: LONDON-N.W | K y | JU 5 | 76; WEYBRIDGE-STATION | B | JU 5 | 76. Published: Cross, III, 283-284.
The Priory | June 3. 1876.
Dearest Nephew
The useful [Companion] which your loving care has had marked with my initials will go with me to be a constant sign of the giver's precious affection which you have expressed in words such as I most value.
Even success needs its consolation. Wide effects are rarely other than superficial and would breed a miserable scepticism about one's work if it were not now and then for an earnest assurance such as you give me that there are lives in which the work has done something to [strengthen the good and mitigate the evil.]
I am pursued to the last with some bodily trouble -- this week it has been sore throat and aching mouth. But I am emerging, and you may think of me next week as raising my "Ebenezer." 489
Love and blessings to you all from
Your affectionate Aunt
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Yale. Envelope: J. W. Cross, Esq. | Weybridge Heath | S.W. Postmarks: LONDON-N.W | K y | JU 5 | 76; WEYBRIDGE-STATION | B | JU 5 | 76. Published: Cross, III, 283-284.
The Priory | June 3. 1876.
Dearest Nephew
The useful [Companion] which your loving care has had marked with my initials will go with me to be a constant sign of the giver's precious affection which you have expressed in words such as I most value.
Even success needs its consolation. Wide effects are rarely other than superficial and would breed a miserable scepticism about one's work if it were not now and then for an earnest assurance such as you give me that there are lives in which the work has done something to [strengthen the good and mitigate the evil.]
I am pursued to the last with some bodily trouble -- this week it has been sore throat and aching mouth. But I am emerging, and you may think of me next week as raising my "Ebenezer." 489
Love and blessings to you all from
Your affectionate Aunt
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Walter Cross, London, 3 June 1876, 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/92834