GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 30 January 1879
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 30 January 1879
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 30 January 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Elma Stuart
Date(s)
- 1879-01-30
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 30 January 1879
MS: British Museum. Envelope: Mrs. Stuart | Fripp's Hotel | 33 Manchester Street | W. Postmark: ST. JOHNS. WOOD | DX | JA 30 | 79 | N.W. Published: Stuart, pp. 120-121.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
January 30. 79.
You believe that I feel for your suffering, my poor dear Elma, as you feel for mine. I long to know that your stay in London has been of real use to your health.
Bless you for all your goodness to us. I want you to know that He used the beautiful walking-stick in the last days -- asked for it that he might hook it on the foot of the bed and raise himself with it. -- And the little pocket book you sent me is consecrated to words about him.
Do not tell any one in the world that I have written to you. My obligations to the goodness of friends are mountainous. I can only feel grateful. I can do nothing in return. I am gone into a far country -- but I am with you, at least I hope you will let me be with you in the spirit as an object of your loving thought. That is how I can be of any good to you -- by rousing your own goodness.
M. E. L.
MS: British Museum. Envelope: Mrs. Stuart | Fripp's Hotel | 33 Manchester Street | W. Postmark: ST. JOHNS. WOOD | DX | JA 30 | 79 | N.W. Published: Stuart, pp. 120-121.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
January 30. 79.
You believe that I feel for your suffering, my poor dear Elma, as you feel for mine. I long to know that your stay in London has been of real use to your health.
Bless you for all your goodness to us. I want you to know that He used the beautiful walking-stick in the last days -- asked for it that he might hook it on the foot of the bed and raise himself with it. -- And the little pocket book you sent me is consecrated to words about him.
Do not tell any one in the world that I have written to you. My obligations to the goodness of friends are mountainous. I can only feel grateful. I can do nothing in return. I am gone into a far country -- but I am with you, at least I hope you will let me be with you in the spirit as an object of your loving thought. That is how I can be of any good to you -- by rousing your own goodness.
M. E. L.
Signature
M. E. L.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 30 January 1879, 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/93413