GE to Mrs. Isaac Pearson Evans, London, 20 February 1879
Title
GE to Mrs. Isaac Pearson Evans, London, 20 February 1879
Title
GE to Mrs. Isaac Pearson Evans, London, 20 February 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Isaac Pearson Evans
Date(s)
- 1879-02-20
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Isaac Pearson Evans, London, 20 February 1879
MS: Mrs. Michael Womersley. Envelope: Mrs. Evans | Griff | near Nuneaton | Warwickshire. Postmark: ST. JOHNS-WOOD | A 2x | FE 20 | 79 | N.W. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
February 20. 1879.
My dear Sarah
I have been ill in body of late, but that only makes me the more anxious to tell you that your words of sympathy were very deeply felt by me in the first pressure of my sorrow. That sorrow was not the heaviest. I feel the weight more and more in the necessity of living on from day to day and fulfilling the duties of life. Your own health, I know, has long been such as to cause you much suffering. But I know too that you are encompassed with affection and blessed with the sense of having good children.
Give my love to my Brother and believe me always
Your affectionate Sister
M. E. Lewes.
If you are writing to Mr. Griffiths please thank him on my behalf for his kind letter. 178 I am unable to write the many acknowledgements of my friends' goodness that gratitude would prompt.
MS: Mrs. Michael Womersley. Envelope: Mrs. Evans | Griff | near Nuneaton | Warwickshire. Postmark: ST. JOHNS-WOOD | A 2x | FE 20 | 79 | N.W. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
February 20. 1879.
My dear Sarah
I have been ill in body of late, but that only makes me the more anxious to tell you that your words of sympathy were very deeply felt by me in the first pressure of my sorrow. That sorrow was not the heaviest. I feel the weight more and more in the necessity of living on from day to day and fulfilling the duties of life. Your own health, I know, has long been such as to cause you much suffering. But I know too that you are encompassed with affection and blessed with the sense of having good children.
Give my love to my Brother and believe me always
Your affectionate Sister
M. E. Lewes.
If you are writing to Mr. Griffiths please thank him on my behalf for his kind letter. 178 I am unable to write the many acknowledgements of my friends' goodness that gratitude would prompt.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Isaac Pearson Evans, London, 20 February 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/93508