GE to Mrs. John Cash, Gorey, 6 June 1857
Title
GE to Mrs. John Cash, Gorey, 6 June 1857
Title
GE to Mrs. John Cash, Gorey, 6 June 1857
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. John Cash
Date(s)
- 1857-06-06
Place
Gorey
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. John Cash, Gorey, 6 June 1857
MS: Yale. Envelope: Mrs. John Cash | Rosehill | Coventry. Postmarks: JERSEY | JU 8 | 1857 | A; COVENTRY | JU 9 | 1857 | D. Published: Cross, I, 455-457.
Rosa Cottage | Gorey | Jersey | June 6. 57.
Dear Friend
Your letter was very sweet to me. The sense of my deficiencies in the past often presses on me with a discouraging weight, and to know that any one can remember me lovingly helps me to believe that there has been some good to balance the evil.
I like to think of you as a happy wife and mother, and since Rosehill must have new tenants I like to think that you and yours are there rather than any one else, not only because of my own confidence in your nature, but because our dear friends love you so much as a neighbour. You know I can never feel otherwise than sorry that they should not have ended their days in that pretty home; but the inevitable regret is softened as much as possible by the fact that the home has become yours.
It is very nice to hear that Mrs. Sibree can relish anything of my writing. She was always a favourite with me, and I remember very vividly many pleasant little conversations with her. Seventy two! How happy you are to have a dear aged mother whose heart you can gladden.
I was a good deal touched by the letter your brother wrote to you about accepting, or rather declining more pupils. 893 I feel sure that his sensitive nature has its peculiar trials and struggles in this strange life of ours, which some thick-skinned mortals take so easily.
I am very happy -- happy in the highest blessing life can give us, the perfect love and sympathy of a nature that stimulates my own to healthful activity. I feel, too, that all the terrible pain I have gone through in past years partly from the defects of my own nature, partly from outward things, has probably been a preparation for some special work that I may do before I die. That is a blessed hope -- to be rejoiced in with trembling. But even if that hope should be unfulfilled, I am contented to have lived and suffered for the sake of what has already been.
You see, your kind letter has made me inclined to talk about myself, but as we do not often have any communication with each other, I know it will be a gratification to your sympathetic nature to have a few direct words from me that will assure you of my moral well-being.
I hope your little ones are just like you -- just as fair and sweettempered. Goodbye, and believe me
Always your affectionate friend
Marian Lewes.
MS: Yale. Envelope: Mrs. John Cash | Rosehill | Coventry. Postmarks: JERSEY | JU 8 | 1857 | A; COVENTRY | JU 9 | 1857 | D. Published: Cross, I, 455-457.
Rosa Cottage | Gorey | Jersey | June 6. 57.
Dear Friend
Your letter was very sweet to me. The sense of my deficiencies in the past often presses on me with a discouraging weight, and to know that any one can remember me lovingly helps me to believe that there has been some good to balance the evil.
I like to think of you as a happy wife and mother, and since Rosehill must have new tenants I like to think that you and yours are there rather than any one else, not only because of my own confidence in your nature, but because our dear friends love you so much as a neighbour. You know I can never feel otherwise than sorry that they should not have ended their days in that pretty home; but the inevitable regret is softened as much as possible by the fact that the home has become yours.
It is very nice to hear that Mrs. Sibree can relish anything of my writing. She was always a favourite with me, and I remember very vividly many pleasant little conversations with her. Seventy two! How happy you are to have a dear aged mother whose heart you can gladden.
I was a good deal touched by the letter your brother wrote to you about accepting, or rather declining more pupils. 893 I feel sure that his sensitive nature has its peculiar trials and struggles in this strange life of ours, which some thick-skinned mortals take so easily.
I am very happy -- happy in the highest blessing life can give us, the perfect love and sympathy of a nature that stimulates my own to healthful activity. I feel, too, that all the terrible pain I have gone through in past years partly from the defects of my own nature, partly from outward things, has probably been a preparation for some special work that I may do before I die. That is a blessed hope -- to be rejoiced in with trembling. But even if that hope should be unfulfilled, I am contented to have lived and suffered for the sake of what has already been.
You see, your kind letter has made me inclined to talk about myself, but as we do not often have any communication with each other, I know it will be a gratification to your sympathetic nature to have a few direct words from me that will assure you of my moral well-being.
I hope your little ones are just like you -- just as fair and sweettempered. Goodbye, and believe me
Always your affectionate friend
Marian Lewes.
Signature
Marian Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. John Cash, Gorey, 6 June 1857, 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/93512