GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 4 November 1842
Title
GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 4 November 1842
Title
GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 4 November 1842
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Martha Jackson
Date(s)
- 1842-11-04
Place
FOLESHILL
Letter Content
GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 4 November 1842
Text: Composite from the Bookman, 3 (January 1893), 119, and Poet-Lore, 6 (January 1894), 5-6.
Foleshill, | November 4th 1842.
My sweet and always dear Martha,
Your letter was like the rising of a planet that I had been sorry to lose from my ken. . . . I was deeply and blissfully affected by your evident sincerity and faithfulness in love to one who must wonder by what strange hallucination fellow beings are attracted towards her. I can say that your thoughts of me have not been without something like a corresponding strain of sympathy and love in my mind, of which you, my Patty, have been the object. I have heard somewhat of your troubles, and should never have ceased to send you intimations that I lived to love you, but that I feared my communications might not be welcome. 453 . . .
Your friendship will not be satisfied unless I say something of myself, so I must chant the praises of my own lot, which is indeed now peaceful and happy to a degree that I little anticipated some months ago. I have indeed lived 454 through some strange and painful scenes with much error on my part, but not without profit. I have the greatest of satisfactions to my mind in witnessing and perhaps slightly administering to my father's comfort. . . . Good-bye, a blessing like Joseph's upon you.
Mary Ann Evans.
Text: Composite from the Bookman, 3 (January 1893), 119, and Poet-Lore, 6 (January 1894), 5-6.
Foleshill, | November 4th 1842.
My sweet and always dear Martha,
Your letter was like the rising of a planet that I had been sorry to lose from my ken. . . . I was deeply and blissfully affected by your evident sincerity and faithfulness in love to one who must wonder by what strange hallucination fellow beings are attracted towards her. I can say that your thoughts of me have not been without something like a corresponding strain of sympathy and love in my mind, of which you, my Patty, have been the object. I have heard somewhat of your troubles, and should never have ceased to send you intimations that I lived to love you, but that I feared my communications might not be welcome. 453 . . .
Your friendship will not be satisfied unless I say something of myself, so I must chant the praises of my own lot, which is indeed now peaceful and happy to a degree that I little anticipated some months ago. I have indeed lived 454 through some strange and painful scenes with much error on my part, but not without profit. I have the greatest of satisfactions to my mind in witnessing and perhaps slightly administering to my father's comfort. . . . Good-bye, a blessing like Joseph's upon you.
Mary Ann Evans.
Signature
Mary Ann Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Martha Jackson, Foleshill, 4 November 1842, 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/92929