GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1874
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1874
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1874
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1874-11-16
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1874
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
November 16. 74.
Dearest Barbara
A prospective welcome to you! We will find you an edifying book when you come -- Tylor's Early History of Mankind, 158 if you have not read it, or something else as good. Meanwhile you ought to be in great mental vigour compared with your fellow-mortals who muddle and enfeeble themselves with reading.
I am delighted to hear so good an account of the Doctor, and I trust that your soul is at rest now from any gnawing anxieties.
I have hired a very promising housemaid, 159 found for me by our dear Mrs. Senior who -- did you know? -- is laid prostrate by illness and ordered to lay herself up for two or three years at least. She looks like a white angel in her little bed.
Please give my kindest remembrances to the beautiful little Aunt 160 -- or rather, ask her to remember me kindly -- for I think our forms of message are very conceited and ungraceful. How do we know that our kind remembrances are wanted? Whereas we do know whether we want the kind remembrances of others.
Come in for a bit of lunch at 'bd past 1 some day -- that is the best way of getting a chat. And then we will drive you on some errand.
Yours always
M. E. L.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
November 16. 74.
Dearest Barbara
A prospective welcome to you! We will find you an edifying book when you come -- Tylor's Early History of Mankind, 158 if you have not read it, or something else as good. Meanwhile you ought to be in great mental vigour compared with your fellow-mortals who muddle and enfeeble themselves with reading.
I am delighted to hear so good an account of the Doctor, and I trust that your soul is at rest now from any gnawing anxieties.
I have hired a very promising housemaid, 159 found for me by our dear Mrs. Senior who -- did you know? -- is laid prostrate by illness and ordered to lay herself up for two or three years at least. She looks like a white angel in her little bed.
Please give my kindest remembrances to the beautiful little Aunt 160 -- or rather, ask her to remember me kindly -- for I think our forms of message are very conceited and ungraceful. How do we know that our kind remembrances are wanted? Whereas we do know whether we want the kind remembrances of others.
Come in for a bit of lunch at 'bd past 1 some day -- that is the best way of getting a chat. And then we will drive you on some errand.
Yours always
M. E. L.
Signature
M. E. L.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, London, 16 November 1874, 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/93035