GE to Maria [Mrs. Richard] Congreve, London, 17 April 1868
Title
GE to Maria [Mrs. Richard] Congreve, London, 17 April 1868
Title
GE to Maria [Mrs. Richard] Congreve, London, 17 April 1868
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Maria [Mrs. Richard] Congreve
Date(s)
- 1868-04-17
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Maria [Mrs. Richard] Congreve, London, 17 April 1868
Text: Cross, III, 38-39.
Your letter came just at the right time to greet us. Thanks for that pretty remembrance. We are glad to be at home again with our home comforts around us, though we became deeply in love with Torquay in the daily heightening of spring beauties, and the glory of perpetual blue skies. The eight hours' journey (one hour more than we paid for) was rather disturbing; and, I think, Mr Lewes has got more zoological experience than health 739 from our month's delight -- but a delight it really has been to us to have perfect quiet with the red hills, the sunshine, and the sea.
I shall be absorbed for the next fortnight, so that I cannot allow myself the sort of pleasure you kindly project for us; and when May begins, I want you to come and stay a night with us. I shall be ready by-and-by for such holiday-making, and you must be good to me. Will you give Dr Congreve my thanks for his pamphlet, 740 which I read at Torquay with great interest? All protests tell, however slowly and imperceptibly, and a protest against the doctrine that England is to keep Ireland under all conditions was what I had wished to be made. But in this matter he will have much more important concurrence than mine. I am bearing much in mind the great task of the translation. 741 When it is completed we shall be able and glad to do what we were not able to do in the case of the [Discours Pr'e9liminaire,] namely, to take our share, if we may, in the expenses of publication.
Text: Cross, III, 38-39.
Your letter came just at the right time to greet us. Thanks for that pretty remembrance. We are glad to be at home again with our home comforts around us, though we became deeply in love with Torquay in the daily heightening of spring beauties, and the glory of perpetual blue skies. The eight hours' journey (one hour more than we paid for) was rather disturbing; and, I think, Mr Lewes has got more zoological experience than health 739 from our month's delight -- but a delight it really has been to us to have perfect quiet with the red hills, the sunshine, and the sea.
I shall be absorbed for the next fortnight, so that I cannot allow myself the sort of pleasure you kindly project for us; and when May begins, I want you to come and stay a night with us. I shall be ready by-and-by for such holiday-making, and you must be good to me. Will you give Dr Congreve my thanks for his pamphlet, 740 which I read at Torquay with great interest? All protests tell, however slowly and imperceptibly, and a protest against the doctrine that England is to keep Ireland under all conditions was what I had wished to be made. But in this matter he will have much more important concurrence than mine. I am bearing much in mind the great task of the translation. 741 When it is completed we shall be able and glad to do what we were not able to do in the case of the [Discours Pr'e9liminaire,] namely, to take our share, if we may, in the expenses of publication.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Maria [Mrs. Richard] Congreve, London, 17 April 1868, 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/93626