GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 5 January 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 5 January 1880
Title
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 5 January 1880
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor
Date(s)
- 1880-01-05
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 5 January 1880
Text: Cross, III, 386.
Thank you a thousand times, my dear friend, for your tender New Year's greeting and inquiries. I have passed well from "under the saws and harrows" of the severe cold, and am better, both in apparent organic soundness and in strength for all occupation, than I once thought was possible for me.
Our dear Barbara is painting in water-colours again from her window -- just as of old. I know you will be glad to hear of this. And I am now seeing many other friends, who interest me and bring me reports of their several worlds. 359 The great public calamities of the past year have helped to quiet one's murmuring spirit in relation to private sorrows, and the prospect for the future is not yet very bright. One thinks of mothers like Mrs Ruck whose best-loved sons are in Afghanistan. But we must live as much as we can for human joy, dwelling on sorrow and pain only so far as the consciousness of it may help us in striving to remedy them.
Text: Cross, III, 386.
Thank you a thousand times, my dear friend, for your tender New Year's greeting and inquiries. I have passed well from "under the saws and harrows" of the severe cold, and am better, both in apparent organic soundness and in strength for all occupation, than I once thought was possible for me.
Our dear Barbara is painting in water-colours again from her window -- just as of old. I know you will be glad to hear of this. And I am now seeing many other friends, who interest me and bring me reports of their several worlds. 359 The great public calamities of the past year have helped to quiet one's murmuring spirit in relation to private sorrows, and the prospect for the future is not yet very bright. One thinks of mothers like Mrs Ruck whose best-loved sons are in Afghanistan. But we must live as much as we can for human joy, dwelling on sorrow and pain only so far as the consciousness of it may help us in striving to remedy them.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Peter Alfred Taylor, London, 5 January 1880, 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/93593