GE to Mrs. Charles Eliot Norton, London, 22 January 1869
Title
GE to Mrs. Charles Eliot Norton, London, 22 January 1869
Title
GE to Mrs. Charles Eliot Norton, London, 22 January 1869
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Charles Eliot Nor
Date(s)
- 1869-01-22
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Charles Eliot Norton, London, 22 January 1869
MS: Harvard. Envelope: Mrs. C. Norton | 18 Queen's Gate Terrace | W. Postmark: LONDON-N.W. | A4 | JA 22 | 69. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
January 22. 1869.
Dear Mrs. Norton 6
I thank you for sending me Mr. Lowell's poems. 7 They could not have come to me in a way more pleasantly memorable than as a gift from you and Mr. Norton, and I expect to enjoy the reading of them very highly.
I am wondering whether your charitable judgment of our climate will wear through many more weeks of fog. I lose one half of my minutes in dwelling on my miserable sensations and the other half in shame that I have not heroism enough in me to triumph over such ills.
Mrs. Pattison 8 did not come on Sunday, after all, so I am glad to think that you got home without too much fatigue -- which you might not have done, if you had waited to see her.
With best regards to all those of your family whom I have had the pleasure of seeing, and whom I hope we shall soon see again, I am
Sincerely yours
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Harvard. Envelope: Mrs. C. Norton | 18 Queen's Gate Terrace | W. Postmark: LONDON-N.W. | A4 | JA 22 | 69. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
January 22. 1869.
Dear Mrs. Norton 6
I thank you for sending me Mr. Lowell's poems. 7 They could not have come to me in a way more pleasantly memorable than as a gift from you and Mr. Norton, and I expect to enjoy the reading of them very highly.
I am wondering whether your charitable judgment of our climate will wear through many more weeks of fog. I lose one half of my minutes in dwelling on my miserable sensations and the other half in shame that I have not heroism enough in me to triumph over such ills.
Mrs. Pattison 8 did not come on Sunday, after all, so I am glad to think that you got home without too much fatigue -- which you might not have done, if you had waited to see her.
With best regards to all those of your family whom I have had the pleasure of seeing, and whom I hope we shall soon see again, I am
Sincerely yours
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Charles Eliot Norton, London, 22 January 1869, 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/93339