GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 15 March 1878
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 15 March 1878
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 15 March 1878
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1878-03-15
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 15 March 1878
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Envelope: Madame Bodichon | 6 Robertson Terrace | Hastings. Postmarks: ST JOHNS WOOD N.W | A 3 | MR 15 | 78; HASTINGS | D | MR 15 | 78. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
March 15. 78.
Dearest Barbara
It makes me rather unhappy this morning to think of your having had a new drawback. But perhaps no delicate person could escape something of the kind under the fluctuating severities of the weather. I too have been tormented with sore throats and seem to get a fresh one each time I go out.
Marquis's 28 letters are charming and thoroughly satisfactory in their indications of her moral nature. Be sure that I bear her in my mind with affectionate interest both for her sake and yours.
Dear Bessie came to see me one Sunday a little while ago. 29 I always get a fresh sense of her goodness and sweetness of nature whenever I have a glimpse of her.
Mrs. Allingham, who looks very blooming again and seems to be painting with great zest, asks for news of you with much feeling whenever I see her. And so does Mrs. Burne Jones.
But I will tell you what dissatisfies me in the scheme of the Universe: it is, that you are fixing yourself in Sussex while we are fixing ourselves in Surrey. And railways are no help for it. I wonder whether you have found a suitable house ad interim, as you desired to do.
God bless you, dear. Let somebody write us a card to say how you are by and by.
Yours ever lovingly
M. E. L.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Envelope: Madame Bodichon | 6 Robertson Terrace | Hastings. Postmarks: ST JOHNS WOOD N.W | A 3 | MR 15 | 78; HASTINGS | D | MR 15 | 78. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
March 15. 78.
Dearest Barbara
It makes me rather unhappy this morning to think of your having had a new drawback. But perhaps no delicate person could escape something of the kind under the fluctuating severities of the weather. I too have been tormented with sore throats and seem to get a fresh one each time I go out.
Marquis's 28 letters are charming and thoroughly satisfactory in their indications of her moral nature. Be sure that I bear her in my mind with affectionate interest both for her sake and yours.
Dear Bessie came to see me one Sunday a little while ago. 29 I always get a fresh sense of her goodness and sweetness of nature whenever I have a glimpse of her.
Mrs. Allingham, who looks very blooming again and seems to be painting with great zest, asks for news of you with much feeling whenever I see her. And so does Mrs. Burne Jones.
But I will tell you what dissatisfies me in the scheme of the Universe: it is, that you are fixing yourself in Sussex while we are fixing ourselves in Surrey. And railways are no help for it. I wonder whether you have found a suitable house ad interim, as you desired to do.
God bless you, dear. Let somebody write us a card to say how you are by and by.
Yours ever lovingly
M. E. L.
Signature
M. E. L.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 15 March 1878, 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/93030