GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 22 May 1869
Title
GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 22 May 1869
Title
GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 22 May 1869
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Mark Pattison
Date(s)
- 1869-05-22
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 22 May 1869
MS: British Museum. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
May 22. 69.
My dear Mrs. Pattison 73
Thanks for your faithful affectionate remembrance of me. The thought of that is as much pleasure as I can hope for in association with Oxford at present, unless you can tell me that you are coming to town again and will appear in person to me, according to that pretty wont you had some months ago.
For us it is impossible to leave home, though your invitation is as strong an enticement to unmoor as my mind would have devised if I had been inventing such temptations. No nurse would set our hearts at ease in absence, or be able to supply the attentions to mental as well as bodily needs which are constantly demanded from us. And the nurse we have is so insufficiently tried that she is at present something additional to watch and be anxious about. Indulgence must be abolished from our lives for a long while -- even the indulgence of applying ourselves with much concentration to [most of the last page torn away] that a question addre[ssed to me] is a cruelty.
Always yours affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
MS: British Museum. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
May 22. 69.
My dear Mrs. Pattison 73
Thanks for your faithful affectionate remembrance of me. The thought of that is as much pleasure as I can hope for in association with Oxford at present, unless you can tell me that you are coming to town again and will appear in person to me, according to that pretty wont you had some months ago.
For us it is impossible to leave home, though your invitation is as strong an enticement to unmoor as my mind would have devised if I had been inventing such temptations. No nurse would set our hearts at ease in absence, or be able to supply the attentions to mental as well as bodily needs which are constantly demanded from us. And the nurse we have is so insufficiently tried that she is at present something additional to watch and be anxious about. Indulgence must be abolished from our lives for a long while -- even the indulgence of applying ourselves with much concentration to [most of the last page torn away] that a question addre[ssed to me] is a cruelty.
Always yours affectionately
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Mark Pattison, London, 22 May 1869, 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/93544