GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Innsbruck, 27 June 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Innsbruck, 27 June 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Innsbruck, 27 June 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Elma Stuart
Date(s)
- 1880-06-27
Place
Innsbruck
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Innsbruck, 27 June 1880
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 150-152.
Innspruck, June 27. 1880.
Dearest Elma
Your intreaty for a letter was not forgotten, but it has been impossible for me to fulfil it, for nearly a fortnight ago, at Venice, Mr. Cross had an attack of illness, 450 due chiefly to the influences of the climate and to the lack of muscular exercise which the allurements of the gondola bring with them. Since we left Venice we have been each day slowly travelling upward to this region, and we shall make this a halting-place for a day or two. 451
I was much consoled about you by your last letter which gave a really hopeful account of your health, and it was very good of you to make the exertion of writing it. What a joyful day it will be when you can rise unfettered and go about once more with your old activity! [In Fides, Salus,] a good Italian said to me, having first asked me if I were a Catholic, and on my answering [No,] saying that what he was thinking of would be of no use -- until I pressed him to tell it me because I was interested in all Catholic doctrine. And I accept the doctrine he commended to me, though in what he would regard as a nonnatural sense. It is a doctrine good for you too in my sense.
Mr. Cross is still a little more delicate than is usual with him, but en revanche I am quite miraculously strong and equal to the little extra calls upon me.
We shall be moving about with rather uncertain halting-places for the next ten days and more, so that I must go without news of you till we have arrived in England.
Meanwhile, go on getting well and believe in the constant affection of your now many-a-year-old friend,
M. A. Cross.
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 150-152.
Innspruck, June 27. 1880.
Dearest Elma
Your intreaty for a letter was not forgotten, but it has been impossible for me to fulfil it, for nearly a fortnight ago, at Venice, Mr. Cross had an attack of illness, 450 due chiefly to the influences of the climate and to the lack of muscular exercise which the allurements of the gondola bring with them. Since we left Venice we have been each day slowly travelling upward to this region, and we shall make this a halting-place for a day or two. 451
I was much consoled about you by your last letter which gave a really hopeful account of your health, and it was very good of you to make the exertion of writing it. What a joyful day it will be when you can rise unfettered and go about once more with your old activity! [In Fides, Salus,] a good Italian said to me, having first asked me if I were a Catholic, and on my answering [No,] saying that what he was thinking of would be of no use -- until I pressed him to tell it me because I was interested in all Catholic doctrine. And I accept the doctrine he commended to me, though in what he would regard as a nonnatural sense. It is a doctrine good for you too in my sense.
Mr. Cross is still a little more delicate than is usual with him, but en revanche I am quite miraculously strong and equal to the little extra calls upon me.
We shall be moving about with rather uncertain halting-places for the next ten days and more, so that I must go without news of you till we have arrived in England.
Meanwhile, go on getting well and believe in the constant affection of your now many-a-year-old friend,
M. A. Cross.
Signature
M. A. Cross.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, Innsbruck, 27 June 1880, 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/93385