GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, [14 June 1869]
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, [14 June 1869]
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, [14 June 1869]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1869-06-14
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, [14 June 1869]
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Monday.
My dear Barbara
I am always rather miserable when I have chanced to seem flippant and irreverent to one who deserves respect, and I felt yesterday that in speaking of Mr. 'abPattison'bb, my joking way of saying that he was a "general writer" 80 might have seemed a sarcasm on him personally, when in fact it was rather a spurt on the condition of the literary world in answer to Mr. Burton's query "what is he?" The Rector seems to me worthy of high esteem so far as I have seen anything of him, and his t'eate-'e0-t'eate talk is really valuable and unusually genuine.
Pardon me for troubling you with an explanation which is necessary rather for my own ease of mind than for any good of yours. Du reste, I have been so poorly for the last three days, that I was imbecile in conversation yesterday. 81
Yours ever
M. E. L.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Monday.
My dear Barbara
I am always rather miserable when I have chanced to seem flippant and irreverent to one who deserves respect, and I felt yesterday that in speaking of Mr. 'abPattison'bb, my joking way of saying that he was a "general writer" 80 might have seemed a sarcasm on him personally, when in fact it was rather a spurt on the condition of the literary world in answer to Mr. Burton's query "what is he?" The Rector seems to me worthy of high esteem so far as I have seen anything of him, and his t'eate-'e0-t'eate talk is really valuable and unusually genuine.
Pardon me for troubling you with an explanation which is necessary rather for my own ease of mind than for any good of yours. Du reste, I have been so poorly for the last three days, that I was imbecile in conversation yesterday. 81
Yours ever
M. E. L.
Signature
M. E. L.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, [14 June 1869], 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/92993