GE to Mrs. Wathen Mark Wilks Call, Richmond, 4 September 1858
Title
GE to Mrs. Wathen Mark Wilks Call, Richmond, 4 September 1858
Title
GE to Mrs. Wathen Mark Wilks Call, Richmond, 4 September 1858
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. Wathen Mark Wilks Call
Date(s)
- 1858-09-04
Place
Richmond
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. Wathen Mark Wilks Call, Richmond, 4 September 1858
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Published: M. L. Parrish, Victorian Lady Novelists, 1933, pp. 5-6.
Park Shot | Richmond | September 4. 58.
Dear Friend
We are at home again after our five months' wandering, and are wishing very much to know whether you and Mr. Call are well and have reason to be satisfied with your new home. We will be magnanimous enough to rejoice if you are thoroughly happy and comfortable at Lymington, though if some unsatisfied want should send you within half a day's reach of us again, we should hope to be gainers. Do write us word about yourselves.
Next to that request comes a message from -- whom, do you think? -- From Strauss, whom I saw for a quarter of an hour the day before we left Munich, some agreeable chance having sent him thither for a short visit. He inquired with much interest about you as well as about Dr. Brabant, and desired me to give his kindest greetings to both. I told him of your marriage and described Mr. Call with all the rare infelicities of English-German. But the merits of the subject gleamed through the dim medium -- for Strauss saw reason to rejoice at my picture.
Dr. Brabant will be pleased to hear that Strauss looks much more placid and healthy than he did four years ago -- not happy, perhaps, but as if he were contented to bear sorrow. He is busy now with his life of Klopstock, 1177 about whom he has collected some new facts or shadows of facts.
We staid three months at Munich, chiefly for the sake of the people we found there, for the climate is afflicting, and the galleries always shut except just at the time when we could not go out to see them. Then we had a delicious journey to Salzburg and from thence through the Salz Kammergut to Vienna, from Vienna to Prague, and from Prague to Dresden, where we spent our last six weeks in quiet work, and quiet worship of the Madonna. What have you been doing the while?
Mr. Lewes unites with me in heartiest remembrances to you and Mr. Call -- a true message though it comes in words that have had the meaning worn away -- and I am always
Yours truly and affectionately,
Marian Lewes.
Has Mr. Call digested the "Principles of Psychology"? If so, Mr. Lewes would be glad to have it again.
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Published: M. L. Parrish, Victorian Lady Novelists, 1933, pp. 5-6.
Park Shot | Richmond | September 4. 58.
Dear Friend
We are at home again after our five months' wandering, and are wishing very much to know whether you and Mr. Call are well and have reason to be satisfied with your new home. We will be magnanimous enough to rejoice if you are thoroughly happy and comfortable at Lymington, though if some unsatisfied want should send you within half a day's reach of us again, we should hope to be gainers. Do write us word about yourselves.
Next to that request comes a message from -- whom, do you think? -- From Strauss, whom I saw for a quarter of an hour the day before we left Munich, some agreeable chance having sent him thither for a short visit. He inquired with much interest about you as well as about Dr. Brabant, and desired me to give his kindest greetings to both. I told him of your marriage and described Mr. Call with all the rare infelicities of English-German. But the merits of the subject gleamed through the dim medium -- for Strauss saw reason to rejoice at my picture.
Dr. Brabant will be pleased to hear that Strauss looks much more placid and healthy than he did four years ago -- not happy, perhaps, but as if he were contented to bear sorrow. He is busy now with his life of Klopstock, 1177 about whom he has collected some new facts or shadows of facts.
We staid three months at Munich, chiefly for the sake of the people we found there, for the climate is afflicting, and the galleries always shut except just at the time when we could not go out to see them. Then we had a delicious journey to Salzburg and from thence through the Salz Kammergut to Vienna, from Vienna to Prague, and from Prague to Dresden, where we spent our last six weeks in quiet work, and quiet worship of the Madonna. What have you been doing the while?
Mr. Lewes unites with me in heartiest remembrances to you and Mr. Call -- a true message though it comes in words that have had the meaning worn away -- and I am always
Yours truly and affectionately,
Marian Lewes.
Has Mr. Call digested the "Principles of Psychology"? If so, Mr. Lewes would be glad to have it again.
Signature
Marian Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. Wathen Mark Wilks Call, Richmond, 4 September 1858, 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/93709