GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 18 December 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 18 December 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 18 December 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Elma Stuart
Date(s)
- 1880-12-18
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 18 December 1880
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 168-169.
Cheyne Walk, | Chelsea, S.W.
December 18. 80.
Dearest Elma
I am sorry that we were out yesterday when your good angel Mrs. Menzies called, but I had the gladness of hearing, through Brett, that you had actually got on your feet again! That is the best of all testimonies to the treatment of your new doctor. Magnificat anima mea! -- This morning I have received Roly's handsome Photo. He is a fine fellow, and I cannot help auguring well for his future, though sceptically disposed towards auguries of all kinds with regard to our mixed human nature with its mixed environment.
Among the many blunders I have committed in the mental and physical chaos of this last fortnight is the throwing away of your envelope inscribed with Mrs. Menzies' address. I am therefore obliged to beg that when you next write to her -- and I imagine you doing so very often -- you will express for me my regret that she should have had the trouble of coming so far as this place in vain. But I find it impossible to make appointments which fetter me for particular days and hours, and I must trust to the generosity of my friends in the matter of visits.
I make an [action de grace] to your new doctor for doing you so much good.
Always, dear, your loving friend
M. A. Cross.
There was a passage over which we laughed (sympathetically) in your last letter. I leave you to guess which it was.
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 168-169.
Cheyne Walk, | Chelsea, S.W.
December 18. 80.
Dearest Elma
I am sorry that we were out yesterday when your good angel Mrs. Menzies called, but I had the gladness of hearing, through Brett, that you had actually got on your feet again! That is the best of all testimonies to the treatment of your new doctor. Magnificat anima mea! -- This morning I have received Roly's handsome Photo. He is a fine fellow, and I cannot help auguring well for his future, though sceptically disposed towards auguries of all kinds with regard to our mixed human nature with its mixed environment.
Among the many blunders I have committed in the mental and physical chaos of this last fortnight is the throwing away of your envelope inscribed with Mrs. Menzies' address. I am therefore obliged to beg that when you next write to her -- and I imagine you doing so very often -- you will express for me my regret that she should have had the trouble of coming so far as this place in vain. But I find it impossible to make appointments which fetter me for particular days and hours, and I must trust to the generosity of my friends in the matter of visits.
I make an [action de grace] to your new doctor for doing you so much good.
Always, dear, your loving friend
M. A. Cross.
There was a passage over which we laughed (sympathetically) in your last letter. I leave you to guess which it was.
Signature
M. A. Cross.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 18 December 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/93396