GE to Mary Sibree, Coventry, 28 August [1851]
Title
GE to Mary Sibree, Coventry, 28 August [1851]
Title
GE to Mary Sibree, Coventry, 28 August [1851]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mary Sibree
Date(s)
- 1851-08-28
Place
COVENTRY
Letter Content
GE to Mary Sibree, Coventry, 28 August [1851]
MS: Miss Mary Kirby. Hitherto unpublished.
Rosehill | August 28.
Your letter is charming, cher enfant, and cheered me for a whole day. That I do not send you a long letter in return, you must ascribe to no lack of love for you but to a daily increasing lack of love for letter-writing. Your picture of yourself and your environment was so interesting that I ventured to share it with Mrs. Bray. We both rejoice in the prospect of domestic comfort and congenial occupation for your good brother. Pray remember me to him and tell him he has my hearty sympathy. In this matter of letter-writing I wish you would give, asking for nothing again that is, if writing to me be the least pleasure to you. To me the smallest detail about you is interesting, but I cannot write about myself save to one or two people in the world.
We are all quite well -- just returned from a visit to Stratford. I shall see you again before very long -- for I am to be stationary for the winter
I believe. In the meantime there are but two words of very vital significance for you and me and all mortals -- Resignation and labour -- perhaps there may come as the crown of these divine unselfish love and from this again light.
Ever your friend
Mary Ann Evans.
MS: Miss Mary Kirby. Hitherto unpublished.
Rosehill | August 28.
Your letter is charming, cher enfant, and cheered me for a whole day. That I do not send you a long letter in return, you must ascribe to no lack of love for you but to a daily increasing lack of love for letter-writing. Your picture of yourself and your environment was so interesting that I ventured to share it with Mrs. Bray. We both rejoice in the prospect of domestic comfort and congenial occupation for your good brother. Pray remember me to him and tell him he has my hearty sympathy. In this matter of letter-writing I wish you would give, asking for nothing again that is, if writing to me be the least pleasure to you. To me the smallest detail about you is interesting, but I cannot write about myself save to one or two people in the world.
We are all quite well -- just returned from a visit to Stratford. I shall see you again before very long -- for I am to be stationary for the winter
I believe. In the meantime there are but two words of very vital significance for you and me and all mortals -- Resignation and labour -- perhaps there may come as the crown of these divine unselfish love and from this again light.
Ever your friend
Mary Ann Evans.
Signature
Mary Ann Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mary Sibree, Coventry, 28 August [1851], 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/92959