GE to Mary Finlay Cross, Shottermill, 31 July 1871
Title
GE to Mary Finlay Cross, Shottermill, 31 July 1871
Title
GE to Mary Finlay Cross, Shottermill, 31 July 1871
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mary Finlay Cross
Date(s)
- 1871-07-31
Place
Shottermill
Letter Content
GE to Mary Finlay Cross, Shottermill, 31 July 1871
MS: Tinker Collection, Yale. Published: Cross, III, 139-140.
Shottermill | Petersfield | July 31. 71.
My dear "Marie"
I read your touching story 339 aloud yesterday to Mr. Lewes, and we both cried over it.
Your Brother wrote to me that you had doubts about giving your name. My faith is that signature is right, in the absence of weighty special reasons against it.
We think of you all very often, and feel ourselves much the richer for having a whole dear family to reckon among our friends. To-morrow we move into our new house, happily no farther than the other side of the road, and we are to stay there till the end of the month. When the trees are yellow I hope you will be coming to see us in St. John's Wood -- how little like the woods we have around us! But of late we have been shut out from these by the melancholy rains.
Your Brother wrote of his expedition to Scotland with Emily, but said nothing of any summer flight for the rest of you. I suppose Weybridge is more agreeable than other places at present, if it has any of its extra warmth in this arctic season.
Our best love, to your dear Mamma supremely and then, to all. Always
Yours with affectionate interest
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Tinker Collection, Yale. Published: Cross, III, 139-140.
Shottermill | Petersfield | July 31. 71.
My dear "Marie"
I read your touching story 339 aloud yesterday to Mr. Lewes, and we both cried over it.
Your Brother wrote to me that you had doubts about giving your name. My faith is that signature is right, in the absence of weighty special reasons against it.
We think of you all very often, and feel ourselves much the richer for having a whole dear family to reckon among our friends. To-morrow we move into our new house, happily no farther than the other side of the road, and we are to stay there till the end of the month. When the trees are yellow I hope you will be coming to see us in St. John's Wood -- how little like the woods we have around us! But of late we have been shut out from these by the melancholy rains.
Your Brother wrote of his expedition to Scotland with Emily, but said nothing of any summer flight for the rest of you. I suppose Weybridge is more agreeable than other places at present, if it has any of its extra warmth in this arctic season.
Our best love, to your dear Mamma supremely and then, to all. Always
Yours with affectionate interest
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mary Finlay Cross, Shottermill, 31 July 1871, 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/92946