GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 3 March 1864
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 3 March 1864
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 3 March 1864
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor
Date(s)
- 1864-03-03
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 3 March 1864
Text: Cross, II, 377-378.
It was pleasant to have news of you through the fog, which reduces my faith in all good and lovely things to its lowest ebb.
I hope you are less abjectly under the control of the skiey influences than I am. The soul's calm sunshine in me is half made up of the outer sunshine. However, we are going on Friday to hear the "Judas Maccabaeus," and Handel's music always brings me a revival.
I have had a great personal loss lately in the death of a sweet woman, 233 to whom I have sometimes gone, and hoped to go again, for a little moral strength. She had long been confined to her room by consumption, which has now taken her quite out of reach except to memory, which makes all dear human beings undying to us as long as we ourselves live.
I am glad to know that you have been interested in "David Gray." It is good for us all that these true stories should be well told. Even those to whom the power of helping rarely comes, have their imaginations instructed so as to be more just and tender in their thoughts about the lot of their fellows.
Text: Cross, II, 377-378.
It was pleasant to have news of you through the fog, which reduces my faith in all good and lovely things to its lowest ebb.
I hope you are less abjectly under the control of the skiey influences than I am. The soul's calm sunshine in me is half made up of the outer sunshine. However, we are going on Friday to hear the "Judas Maccabaeus," and Handel's music always brings me a revival.
I have had a great personal loss lately in the death of a sweet woman, 233 to whom I have sometimes gone, and hoped to go again, for a little moral strength. She had long been confined to her room by consumption, which has now taken her quite out of reach except to memory, which makes all dear human beings undying to us as long as we ourselves live.
I am glad to know that you have been interested in "David Gray." It is good for us all that these true stories should be well told. Even those to whom the power of helping rarely comes, have their imaginations instructed so as to be more just and tender in their thoughts about the lot of their fellows.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 3 March 1864, 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/93590