GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Shottermill, 25 July 1871
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Shottermill, 25 July 1871
Title
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Shottermill, 25 July 1871
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Date(s)
- 1871-07-25
Place
Shottermill
Letter Content
GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Shottermill, 25 July 1871
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Tennyson. Hitherto unpublished.
Shottermill | near Petersfield | July 25. 71.
My dear Cara
Mr. Lewes tells me to say, in reply to Mr. Sibree, that the corrected sheets of the new edition in question have for many months been in the publishers' hands, but the publication has been delayed and is now not likely to take place before October. The account of Hegel has been entirely re-written after new study. Mr. Lewes thinks it highly desirable that so capable a man as Mr. Sibree should undertake the translation of Hegel's Hist[ory] of Phil[osoph]y, which would be likely to keep a lasting place. He has spoken, in the aforesaid new edition, of the exceptional ability shown in Mr. Sibree's former translation. 336
We were delighted to see Mr. and Mrs. Call, and to hear of Frank's hopeful plantation in Germany. They gave us cheerful news of you, and said that you reported Sara also to be very well. I was suffering from headache when they were here, but I am better now. Only, the rain and wind distress me in soul and body. One thinks of the beaten-down corn, and one feels stagnation in one's own liver. Next week we move into the house on the opposite side of the road, which is less quaint and romantic than this cottage, but fuller of comforts.
Tennyson has a house on a hill about three miles from here, and he has found us out. Otherwise, we are in secure solitude and read and discuss and walk to our hearts' content. We shall not be back in town again until September and are happy to have got a new shelter here, as our house will only tomorrow be free from builders and painters and we could not yet lay our heads in it.
I worship Scott so devoutly that I leaped out foolishly with a consent to go to Edinburgh, feeling that I should have a good happy cry at seeing any honors done to his memory. But I am altogether thankful that the step was not irrevocable. The journey and the fuss would have been intolerable to me. Edinburgh will look fine with the crowds streaming along Princes Street, but I doubt whether anything else will be satisfactory.
I wish you had told me some details about Sara. It seems an age since I got any glimpse of her. With best love,
Always your faithful
Marian.
There is a paper-famine just now. 337
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Tennyson. Hitherto unpublished.
Shottermill | near Petersfield | July 25. 71.
My dear Cara
Mr. Lewes tells me to say, in reply to Mr. Sibree, that the corrected sheets of the new edition in question have for many months been in the publishers' hands, but the publication has been delayed and is now not likely to take place before October. The account of Hegel has been entirely re-written after new study. Mr. Lewes thinks it highly desirable that so capable a man as Mr. Sibree should undertake the translation of Hegel's Hist[ory] of Phil[osoph]y, which would be likely to keep a lasting place. He has spoken, in the aforesaid new edition, of the exceptional ability shown in Mr. Sibree's former translation. 336
We were delighted to see Mr. and Mrs. Call, and to hear of Frank's hopeful plantation in Germany. They gave us cheerful news of you, and said that you reported Sara also to be very well. I was suffering from headache when they were here, but I am better now. Only, the rain and wind distress me in soul and body. One thinks of the beaten-down corn, and one feels stagnation in one's own liver. Next week we move into the house on the opposite side of the road, which is less quaint and romantic than this cottage, but fuller of comforts.
Tennyson has a house on a hill about three miles from here, and he has found us out. Otherwise, we are in secure solitude and read and discuss and walk to our hearts' content. We shall not be back in town again until September and are happy to have got a new shelter here, as our house will only tomorrow be free from builders and painters and we could not yet lay our heads in it.
I worship Scott so devoutly that I leaped out foolishly with a consent to go to Edinburgh, feeling that I should have a good happy cry at seeing any honors done to his memory. But I am altogether thankful that the step was not irrevocable. The journey and the fuss would have been intolerable to me. Edinburgh will look fine with the crowds streaming along Princes Street, but I doubt whether anything else will be satisfactory.
I wish you had told me some details about Sara. It seems an age since I got any glimpse of her. With best love,
Always your faithful
Marian.
There is a paper-famine just now. 337
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Shottermill, 25 July 1871, 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/93320