GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 8 September 1876
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 8 September 1876
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 8 September 1876
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1876-09-08
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 8 September 1876
MS: Miss Kate C. Savage. Envelope: Mrs. Bray | 3 Barrs Hill Terrace | Coventry. Postmark: LONDON-N.W | SP 8 | 76. Hitherto unpublished.
North Bank | September 8. 76.
My dear Cara
We got back to our nest at the end of last week, and remembering that when I saw you you were not without anxieties, I am anxious to have some news of you. How is Mr. Bray's health? How is everything that touches your comfort?
We are much the better for our travel, which has lain in a direction other than we intended on setting out. When we got to Aix-les-Bains I was taken ill, the heat was already rather fierce in that region, and we felt that it would be unwise to go father south. In order to get on to the cool heights of the Maritime Alps we must have gone into hot depths. So we turned northward and by slow stages got at last to Ragatz, which proved a place of healing and invigoration. The last two months of our absence were spent entirely in the north-east of Switzerland and in the Black Forest -- out of the English tracks. We saw but one acquaintance, and he was a Berlin publisher. 523 It is pleasant to be back in London when "nobody" is here.
I hope that the unusual old-fashioned heat has not been unfavourable to any one of your trio. Every detail about you will be acceptable. I think you are under a promise to tell me honestly of any outside good or evil.
My best love to Sara. It is a pity the spirit moves her so seldom to write letters, seeing that she writes them so charmingly. But I am the last who should wonder at such abstinence. In reading a heap of letters, I am preoccupied with calculating how few I can make my answers.
We shall be so glad to hear that the summer weather has been benignant to Mr. Bray's lungs. Our "often infirmities" 524 make us sympathetic about all bodily ills.
Always your affectionate
Marian.
MS: Miss Kate C. Savage. Envelope: Mrs. Bray | 3 Barrs Hill Terrace | Coventry. Postmark: LONDON-N.W | SP 8 | 76. Hitherto unpublished.
North Bank | September 8. 76.
My dear Cara
We got back to our nest at the end of last week, and remembering that when I saw you you were not without anxieties, I am anxious to have some news of you. How is Mr. Bray's health? How is everything that touches your comfort?
We are much the better for our travel, which has lain in a direction other than we intended on setting out. When we got to Aix-les-Bains I was taken ill, the heat was already rather fierce in that region, and we felt that it would be unwise to go father south. In order to get on to the cool heights of the Maritime Alps we must have gone into hot depths. So we turned northward and by slow stages got at last to Ragatz, which proved a place of healing and invigoration. The last two months of our absence were spent entirely in the north-east of Switzerland and in the Black Forest -- out of the English tracks. We saw but one acquaintance, and he was a Berlin publisher. 523 It is pleasant to be back in London when "nobody" is here.
I hope that the unusual old-fashioned heat has not been unfavourable to any one of your trio. Every detail about you will be acceptable. I think you are under a promise to tell me honestly of any outside good or evil.
My best love to Sara. It is a pity the spirit moves her so seldom to write letters, seeing that she writes them so charmingly. But I am the last who should wonder at such abstinence. In reading a heap of letters, I am preoccupied with calculating how few I can make my answers.
We shall be so glad to hear that the summer weather has been benignant to Mr. Bray's lungs. Our "often infirmities" 524 make us sympathetic about all bodily ills.
Always your affectionate
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, London, 8 September 1876, 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/93316