GE to Maria Lewis, Foleshill, 20 August [1841]
Title
GE to Maria Lewis, Foleshill, 20 August [1841]
Title
GE to Maria Lewis, Foleshill, 20 August [1841]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Maria Lewis
Date(s)
- 1841-08-20
Place
FOLESHILL
Letter Content
GE to Maria Lewis, Foleshill, 20 August [1841]
MS: Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
Foleshill Road | August 20.
My very dear Veronica,
I received your note containing a receipt, but have not yet had the books; what can detain them I am unable to imagine.
I thank you warmly for this new proof of affection and only wish that I had an opportunity of shewing you that even my more sluggish body may become active under the influence of affection.
Have you never noticed the possession of a sort of intellectual conscience, that affrights one all of a sudden with the recollection of some crime against sense or syntax, quite unconsciously committed. I am convicted by this same monitor of having written in my last letter, [final cause] instead of [first cause,] thus doing innocently what is often done voluntarily, saying just the opposite to what I was thinking. I may be doing so now for I am in a hurry, but not so great that I cannot feel and say that I am ever my dear Veronica (and certainly Speedwell)
Your true and affectionate,
Clematis.
How did you get to Burton and how is your health?
Have you seen Mr. Henslowe?
MS: Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
Foleshill Road | August 20.
My very dear Veronica,
I received your note containing a receipt, but have not yet had the books; what can detain them I am unable to imagine.
I thank you warmly for this new proof of affection and only wish that I had an opportunity of shewing you that even my more sluggish body may become active under the influence of affection.
Have you never noticed the possession of a sort of intellectual conscience, that affrights one all of a sudden with the recollection of some crime against sense or syntax, quite unconsciously committed. I am convicted by this same monitor of having written in my last letter, [final cause] instead of [first cause,] thus doing innocently what is often done voluntarily, saying just the opposite to what I was thinking. I may be doing so now for I am in a hurry, but not so great that I cannot feel and say that I am ever my dear Veronica (and certainly Speedwell)
Your true and affectionate,
Clematis.
How did you get to Burton and how is your health?
Have you seen Mr. Henslowe?
Signature
Clematis.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Maria Lewis, Foleshill, 20 August [1841], 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/92883