GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 1 July 1860
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 1 July 1860
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 1 July 1860
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1860-07-01
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 1 July 1860
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Extracts published: Cross, II, 255-256.
Holly Lodge | July 1. 60.
Dear Barbara
We reached home by starlight at one o'clock this morning, and I write in haste fear and trembling lest you should already be gone to Surrey. 567 You know what I should like -- that you and your husband should come to us the first day possible, naming any hour and conditions.
We would arrange meals and everything else as would best suit you. Of course I would willingly go to London to see you, if you could not come to me. But I fear lest neither plan should be practicable, and lest this letter should have to be sent after you.
It is from your note only that I have learned your loss. 568 It has made me think of you with the sense that there is more than ever a common fund of experience between us. But I will write nothing more now -- I am almost ill with fatigue, and have only courage to write at all, because of my anxiety not to miss you.
Affectionate regards from both of us to both of you.
Ever yours
M. E. Lewes.
Madame Bodichon.
MS: Mr. Philip Leigh-Smith. Extracts published: Cross, II, 255-256.
Holly Lodge | July 1. 60.
Dear Barbara
We reached home by starlight at one o'clock this morning, and I write in haste fear and trembling lest you should already be gone to Surrey. 567 You know what I should like -- that you and your husband should come to us the first day possible, naming any hour and conditions.
We would arrange meals and everything else as would best suit you. Of course I would willingly go to London to see you, if you could not come to me. But I fear lest neither plan should be practicable, and lest this letter should have to be sent after you.
It is from your note only that I have learned your loss. 568 It has made me think of you with the sense that there is more than ever a common fund of experience between us. But I will write nothing more now -- I am almost ill with fatigue, and have only courage to write at all, because of my anxiety not to miss you.
Affectionate regards from both of us to both of you.
Ever yours
M. E. Lewes.
Madame Bodichon.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Wandsworth, 1 July 1860, 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/93090