GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, London, 28 April 1877
Title
GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, London, 28 April 1877
Title
GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, London, 28 April 1877
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones
Date(s)
- 1877-04-28
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, London, 28 April 1877
MS: Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
April 28. 77.
Dearest Mignon
To have a loving note from you is the next best thing to seeing you. We both felt it good to have you here 654 in that distant past before I had an attack of Influenza which has stretched out the ten days into a purgatorial period. However, I am better now, and disposed to think that your troubles with your maidens are the stronger appeal to sympathy.
If the Lindsays 655 had not happened to send us tickets for the private view, we should have been most grateful for those you offer us, but now we are supplied.
I wonder what I ought to have for a morning dress to wear at breakfasts and walk out in on visits at Oxford and Cambridge. I have just had a black silk, of the robe species, such as I humbly trust you would approve, for my dinner dress. But I want something less heavy and dust-showing for the day-time. I like plain silk better than anything, but it is hard to get the right colour. These remarks are to give you a faint idea of my heavy private anxieties -- not to urge you into taking the trouble to write me advice.
Our best love to both.
[Signature cut away.]
MS: Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
April 28. 77.
Dearest Mignon
To have a loving note from you is the next best thing to seeing you. We both felt it good to have you here 654 in that distant past before I had an attack of Influenza which has stretched out the ten days into a purgatorial period. However, I am better now, and disposed to think that your troubles with your maidens are the stronger appeal to sympathy.
If the Lindsays 655 had not happened to send us tickets for the private view, we should have been most grateful for those you offer us, but now we are supplied.
I wonder what I ought to have for a morning dress to wear at breakfasts and walk out in on visits at Oxford and Cambridge. I have just had a black silk, of the robe species, such as I humbly trust you would approve, for my dinner dress. But I want something less heavy and dust-showing for the day-time. I like plain silk better than anything, but it is hard to get the right colour. These remarks are to give you a faint idea of my heavy private anxieties -- not to urge you into taking the trouble to write me advice.
Our best love to both.
[Signature cut away.]
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Edward Burne-Jones, London, 28 April 1877, 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/93361