GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 27 November [1851]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 27 November [1851]
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 27 November [1851]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1851-11-27
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 27 November [1851]
MS: Yale. Extract published: Cross, 1, 266.
Strand | November 27.
Dear Cara
I am a wretch today -- head aching ever since Saturday -- draughts and pills for the last two days -- so I write now to save time instead of on Saturday when I hope to be well. So you must understand that I expect a letter on Monday morning. I hope Sara will duly receive her parcel. I gave the commission to Mr. C. Her letter came marked "Too Late."
Carlyle called the other day, strongly recommending Browning the poet as a writer for the Review, and saying "We shall see" about himself.
In other respects we have been stagnating since Monday, and now I must work, work, work -- which I have scarcely done two days consecutively since I have been here. Lewes says his article on Julia von Kr'fcdener 1067 will be "glorious." He sat in the same box with us at the "Merry Wives of Windsor," and helped to carry off the dolorousness of the play by such remarks as "There's the swan preening," 1068 "The swan comes out now and then," and "The play is a farce in five acts. If it were in one act and one didn't see it, it would be very well" etc., etc.
You see I have nothing to tell you, so goodbye, dear deuter. 1069 Love --
Your affectionate
Marian.
MS: Yale. Extract published: Cross, 1, 266.
Strand | November 27.
Dear Cara
I am a wretch today -- head aching ever since Saturday -- draughts and pills for the last two days -- so I write now to save time instead of on Saturday when I hope to be well. So you must understand that I expect a letter on Monday morning. I hope Sara will duly receive her parcel. I gave the commission to Mr. C. Her letter came marked "Too Late."
Carlyle called the other day, strongly recommending Browning the poet as a writer for the Review, and saying "We shall see" about himself.
In other respects we have been stagnating since Monday, and now I must work, work, work -- which I have scarcely done two days consecutively since I have been here. Lewes says his article on Julia von Kr'fcdener 1067 will be "glorious." He sat in the same box with us at the "Merry Wives of Windsor," and helped to carry off the dolorousness of the play by such remarks as "There's the swan preening," 1068 "The swan comes out now and then," and "The play is a farce in five acts. If it were in one act and one didn't see it, it would be very well" etc., etc.
You see I have nothing to tell you, so goodbye, dear deuter. 1069 Love --
Your affectionate
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 27 November [1851], 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/93299