GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 15 September 1870
Title
GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 15 September 1870
Title
GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 15 September 1870
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Mark Pattison
Date(s)
- 1870-09-15
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 15 September 1870
MS: British Museum. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
September 15. 1870.
My dear Mrs. Pattison
I have abstained a long while from troubling you with any report of ourselves or any inquiries about you, from an impression that you prefer being left uninterrupted by such small claims on your attention. But the painful, too engrossing thoughts raised by the War urge me to counteracting thoughts of all friendly bonds. It seems to me more than ever that in all our affectionate relations we have some of the moral treasure of the world under our charge. And thus the impulse to write to you and ask for a little news of you has become at last stronger than any diffidence.
I trust that, like a happy nation, you have no history, 222 and have only to tell that you and the Rector have been and are enjoying your pretty country house without let or hindrance. Probably, like us, you spend a good deal of the day in reading the papers and discussing events contained in the telegrams and correspondence. I read through two daily papers, the Times and the Daily News -- an excess in journal-reading that I was never drawn into before.
Very shortly after we parted from you we began wandering again, first into northern counties and then into southern, in search of health for my husband. At last we have won some of that good, and we are settled here with the hope of being able to enjoy our home corners for a long while. Perhaps I should be consulting only my own pleasure if I wished that you should not be equally stationary, but should find occasion to come to London. Under all probabilities, I am always
Affectionately yours
M. E. Lewes.
MS: British Museum. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
September 15. 1870.
My dear Mrs. Pattison
I have abstained a long while from troubling you with any report of ourselves or any inquiries about you, from an impression that you prefer being left uninterrupted by such small claims on your attention. But the painful, too engrossing thoughts raised by the War urge me to counteracting thoughts of all friendly bonds. It seems to me more than ever that in all our affectionate relations we have some of the moral treasure of the world under our charge. And thus the impulse to write to you and ask for a little news of you has become at last stronger than any diffidence.
I trust that, like a happy nation, you have no history, 222 and have only to tell that you and the Rector have been and are enjoying your pretty country house without let or hindrance. Probably, like us, you spend a good deal of the day in reading the papers and discussing events contained in the telegrams and correspondence. I read through two daily papers, the Times and the Daily News -- an excess in journal-reading that I was never drawn into before.
Very shortly after we parted from you we began wandering again, first into northern counties and then into southern, in search of health for my husband. At last we have won some of that good, and we are settled here with the hope of being able to enjoy our home corners for a long while. Perhaps I should be consulting only my own pleasure if I wished that you should not be equally stationary, but should find occasion to come to London. Under all probabilities, I am always
Affectionately yours
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 15 September 1870, 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/93533