GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 1 August 1880
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 1 August 1880
Title
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 1 August 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon
Date(s)
- 1880-08-01
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 1 August 1880
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Envelope: Madame Bodichon | Scalands Gate | Robertsbridge | Hawkhurst. Postmarks: GODALMING | C | 2 AU | 80; HAWKHURST | A | AU 3 | 80; ROBERTSBRIDGE | A | AU 3 | 80. Extracts published: Cross, III, 410-411.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 1. 80.
My dear Barbara
We arrived here in all safety last Monday, and if I had not had your welcome little note this morning I think I should soon have written to you without any such extra stimulus.
Mr. Cross had a sharp but brief attack at Venice -- due to the unsanitary influences of that wondrous city in the later weeks of June. We stayed a little too long there with a continuous Scirocco blowing and bad smells under the window of the H'f4tel de l'Europe, and these conditions found him a little below par from long protracted anxiety and excitement before our marriage. But ever since we left Venice (on the 23d of June) he has been getting strong again, and we have enjoyed a leisurely journey through Germany in constant warmth and sunshine, save for an occasional thunder storm. The climate in this beloved country of ours is a sad exchange, and makes one think of a second bad harvest time with all its consequences. Still it is a delight to be at home, and enjoy perfect stillness after the noisiness of foreign bells and foreign voices indoors and out.
It would be very pretty to pay you a visit next April if we are all alive, and I think Mr. Cross would like it very much. He sends you, hoping you will accept them, his best remembrances, which have been kept up by our often talking about you. Charles sent me word that the missing letter to you had been found, as you conjectured, in my drawer, and that he had forwarded it to you. He and Gertrude have just started on their five weeks' holiday in Switzerland.
I have been amazingly well through all the exertions of our travel, and in the latter half of the time have done a great deal of walking.
Please give my best love to Nanny (how long it is since I saw her!), and to Miss Marks. I shall long to hear that the latter has got well through her final examination. 458
Your ever loving
Marian.
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Envelope: Madame Bodichon | Scalands Gate | Robertsbridge | Hawkhurst. Postmarks: GODALMING | C | 2 AU | 80; HAWKHURST | A | AU 3 | 80; ROBERTSBRIDGE | A | AU 3 | 80. Extracts published: Cross, III, 410-411.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
August 1. 80.
My dear Barbara
We arrived here in all safety last Monday, and if I had not had your welcome little note this morning I think I should soon have written to you without any such extra stimulus.
Mr. Cross had a sharp but brief attack at Venice -- due to the unsanitary influences of that wondrous city in the later weeks of June. We stayed a little too long there with a continuous Scirocco blowing and bad smells under the window of the H'f4tel de l'Europe, and these conditions found him a little below par from long protracted anxiety and excitement before our marriage. But ever since we left Venice (on the 23d of June) he has been getting strong again, and we have enjoyed a leisurely journey through Germany in constant warmth and sunshine, save for an occasional thunder storm. The climate in this beloved country of ours is a sad exchange, and makes one think of a second bad harvest time with all its consequences. Still it is a delight to be at home, and enjoy perfect stillness after the noisiness of foreign bells and foreign voices indoors and out.
It would be very pretty to pay you a visit next April if we are all alive, and I think Mr. Cross would like it very much. He sends you, hoping you will accept them, his best remembrances, which have been kept up by our often talking about you. Charles sent me word that the missing letter to you had been found, as you conjectured, in my drawer, and that he had forwarded it to you. He and Gertrude have just started on their five weeks' holiday in Switzerland.
I have been amazingly well through all the exertions of our travel, and in the latter half of the time have done a great deal of walking.
Please give my best love to Nanny (how long it is since I saw her!), and to Miss Marks. I shall long to hear that the latter has got well through her final examination. 458
Your ever loving
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Barbara [Mme Eugene] Bodichon, Witley, 1 August 1880, 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/93098