GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [4? March 1873]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [4? March 1873]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [4? March 1873]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1873-03-04
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [4? March 1873]
Text: Mathilde Blind, George Eliot, 1883, p. 28.
A very good, as well as very rich, woman, Mrs. S[chwabe], 744 has founded a model school at Naples, and has the sympathy of the best
Italians in her educational efforts. Of course a chief point in trying to improve the Italians is to teach them kindness to animals, and a friend of Mrs. S[chwabe] has confided to her a small sum of money -- fifty pounds, I think -- to be applied to the translation and publication of some good books for young people, which would be likely to rouse in them a sympathy with dumb creatures.
Will you kindly help me in the effort to further Mrs. S[chwabe]'s good work by sending me a copy of your book on animals, and also by telling me the periodical in which the parts of the book first appeared, as well as the titles of any other works which you think would be worth mentioning for the purpose in question?
Mrs. S[chwabe] (as indeed you may probably know) is the widow of a German merchant of Manchester, as rich as many such merchants are, and as benevolent as only the choicest few. She knows all sorts of good work for the world, and is known by most of the workers. It struck me, while she was speaking of this need of a book to translate, that you had done the very thing.
Text: Mathilde Blind, George Eliot, 1883, p. 28.
A very good, as well as very rich, woman, Mrs. S[chwabe], 744 has founded a model school at Naples, and has the sympathy of the best
Italians in her educational efforts. Of course a chief point in trying to improve the Italians is to teach them kindness to animals, and a friend of Mrs. S[chwabe] has confided to her a small sum of money -- fifty pounds, I think -- to be applied to the translation and publication of some good books for young people, which would be likely to rouse in them a sympathy with dumb creatures.
Will you kindly help me in the effort to further Mrs. S[chwabe]'s good work by sending me a copy of your book on animals, and also by telling me the periodical in which the parts of the book first appeared, as well as the titles of any other works which you think would be worth mentioning for the purpose in question?
Mrs. S[chwabe] (as indeed you may probably know) is the widow of a German merchant of Manchester, as rich as many such merchants are, and as benevolent as only the choicest few. She knows all sorts of good work for the world, and is known by most of the workers. It struck me, while she was speaking of this need of a book to translate, that you had done the very thing.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, [4? March 1873], 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/93255