GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 11 March 1862
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 11 March 1862
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 11 March 1862
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1862-03-11
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 11 March 1862
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
Blandford Sq. | March 11. 1862.
Dear Barbara
All my books have been translated by M. d'Albert, except the Clerical Scenes, and I am not certain that they have been translated. Mrs. Blackwell some time ago asked leave to translate them and Silas Marner. 39 I could not give the leave for the latter as M. d'Albert had already undertaken it, but I did, for the Clerical Scenes. Whether she acted on that leave, or gave up the whole affair because she could not have Silas Marner, I don't know. But since your account of the Algerian lady's powers is not encouraging I think you had better simply tell her that I cannot authorize any translation on her part. In strictness, I have no power to forbid it, after the first year of publication.
We shall be glad to see you safe across the waters once more. You may well bring brightness, living in perpetual summer as you do. We are come back this very evening from Englefield Green, where we have been staying, with much enjoyment, at the pretty little inn you recommended to us. The good Mrs. Bone there asked with interest about you. It is just the neighbourhood in which we should like to live: -- the air is true country air, clear from the London haze, which Richmond is not. But unhappily the railway is impracticably far-off and infrequent in its trains.
The Doctor's life looks very paradisaic in your description -- only there were no sick people in paradise. But the next best thing to seeing all the world healthy is to help and soothe the sick.
Pater and Charlie beg to send their love.
Ever your affectionate
Marian.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
Blandford Sq. | March 11. 1862.
Dear Barbara
All my books have been translated by M. d'Albert, except the Clerical Scenes, and I am not certain that they have been translated. Mrs. Blackwell some time ago asked leave to translate them and Silas Marner. 39 I could not give the leave for the latter as M. d'Albert had already undertaken it, but I did, for the Clerical Scenes. Whether she acted on that leave, or gave up the whole affair because she could not have Silas Marner, I don't know. But since your account of the Algerian lady's powers is not encouraging I think you had better simply tell her that I cannot authorize any translation on her part. In strictness, I have no power to forbid it, after the first year of publication.
We shall be glad to see you safe across the waters once more. You may well bring brightness, living in perpetual summer as you do. We are come back this very evening from Englefield Green, where we have been staying, with much enjoyment, at the pretty little inn you recommended to us. The good Mrs. Bone there asked with interest about you. It is just the neighbourhood in which we should like to live: -- the air is true country air, clear from the London haze, which Richmond is not. But unhappily the railway is impracticably far-off and infrequent in its trains.
The Doctor's life looks very paradisaic in your description -- only there were no sick people in paradise. But the next best thing to seeing all the world healthy is to help and soothe the sick.
Pater and Charlie beg to send their love.
Ever your affectionate
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 11 March 1862, 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/93022