GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 4 October 1876
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 4 October 1876
Title
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 4 October 1876
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Elma Stuart
Date(s)
- 1876-10-04
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 4 October 1876
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 64-65.
The Priory | 21 N.B., | October 4. 76.
Dearest Elma
The blue slippers and the soft white kerchief, opened by my husband, lay against my plate when I came down this morning, and they made the best part of my breakfast. My own particular Providence in Brittany is wonderfully well-informed, for this cream-coloured silk kerchief is just what I wanted, and without my said little Providence I should never have got it. I shall make many [actions de gr'e2ce] when I am wearing it.
We are going this morning into Cambridgeshire to pass three days with a friend of ours of whom I daresay you know something -- the Mr. Hall who was once the Mr. Bullock gratefully remembered in the country round Sedan. He found an excellent second wife there, the sister of the Protestant pastor, and she plays her part admirably as the helpmate of an English country gentleman. 533
Some of our continental bloom has left us in the London air and under the transitions from warm to cold and from cold back again. But we are not yet quite run down to the old level. Mr. Lewes has begun the printing of his third volume of Problems 534 and is very happy in revision of his written sheets.
Will you write us some news of you soon? -- how far you have become learned in archaeology and have been fascinated by archaeologists etc. etc. Your letters cheer us. I wish we could do more for you -- not because you need it, but because our hearts long for it.
Always your loving
Mother.
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 64-65.
The Priory | 21 N.B., | October 4. 76.
Dearest Elma
The blue slippers and the soft white kerchief, opened by my husband, lay against my plate when I came down this morning, and they made the best part of my breakfast. My own particular Providence in Brittany is wonderfully well-informed, for this cream-coloured silk kerchief is just what I wanted, and without my said little Providence I should never have got it. I shall make many [actions de gr'e2ce] when I am wearing it.
We are going this morning into Cambridgeshire to pass three days with a friend of ours of whom I daresay you know something -- the Mr. Hall who was once the Mr. Bullock gratefully remembered in the country round Sedan. He found an excellent second wife there, the sister of the Protestant pastor, and she plays her part admirably as the helpmate of an English country gentleman. 533
Some of our continental bloom has left us in the London air and under the transitions from warm to cold and from cold back again. But we are not yet quite run down to the old level. Mr. Lewes has begun the printing of his third volume of Problems 534 and is very happy in revision of his written sheets.
Will you write us some news of you soon? -- how far you have become learned in archaeology and have been fascinated by archaeologists etc. etc. Your letters cheer us. I wish we could do more for you -- not because you need it, but because our hearts long for it.
Always your loving
Mother.
Signature
Mother.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 4 October 1876, 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/93416