GE to Mrs. William Cross, London, 4 January [1873]
Title
GE to Mrs. William Cross, London, 4 January [1873]
Title
GE to Mrs. William Cross, London, 4 January [1873]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Mrs. William Cross
Date(s)
- 1873-01-04
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Mrs. William Cross, London, 4 January [1873]
MS: Tinker Collection, Yale. Extracts published: Cross, III, 193-194.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
January 4. 1872. 694
My dear Mrs. Cross
At last I break my ungrateful silence and thank you for your kind care about me. I have still a miniature ulcer in my throat, still a sore mouth and some lingering grumbling pains. But I am able to enjoy my reading at the corner of my study fire and am at that unpitiable stage of illness which is counterbalanced by extra petting. I have been fearing that you too may be undergoing some malaise of a kindred sort and I should like to be assured that you have quite got through the dental troubles which threatened you.
How good you have all been to me, and what a disappointing investment of affection I have turned out! But please tell Mr. Hall that those evening drives which perhaps encouraged the face ache have left me a treasure of picture and poetry in my memory quite worth paying for -- and in these days all prices are high.
If Miss Thornley is still with you pray thank her for her hint about the charcoal. We have some by us, but at present my troubles are not of the dyspeptic sort, and I am even following with success a prescription of milk and brandy the last thing at night! Butter and honey and all good feeding is my medicine. If I am not well and able to see any of my nieces and nephews who will come after another week, I shall begin to think that I am not worth my feed.
The New Year began very prettily for me at half past eight in the morning with a beautiful bouquet left by an unknown at our door and an inscription asking that God's blessing might ever [five lines cut away.]
My nephew's business circular 695 was received with much interest. What a pity we have not a lawyer in the family! With best love to all,
Yours, dear friend, in true affection
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Tinker Collection, Yale. Extracts published: Cross, III, 193-194.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
January 4. 1872. 694
My dear Mrs. Cross
At last I break my ungrateful silence and thank you for your kind care about me. I have still a miniature ulcer in my throat, still a sore mouth and some lingering grumbling pains. But I am able to enjoy my reading at the corner of my study fire and am at that unpitiable stage of illness which is counterbalanced by extra petting. I have been fearing that you too may be undergoing some malaise of a kindred sort and I should like to be assured that you have quite got through the dental troubles which threatened you.
How good you have all been to me, and what a disappointing investment of affection I have turned out! But please tell Mr. Hall that those evening drives which perhaps encouraged the face ache have left me a treasure of picture and poetry in my memory quite worth paying for -- and in these days all prices are high.
If Miss Thornley is still with you pray thank her for her hint about the charcoal. We have some by us, but at present my troubles are not of the dyspeptic sort, and I am even following with success a prescription of milk and brandy the last thing at night! Butter and honey and all good feeding is my medicine. If I am not well and able to see any of my nieces and nephews who will come after another week, I shall begin to think that I am not worth my feed.
The New Year began very prettily for me at half past eight in the morning with a beautiful bouquet left by an unknown at our door and an inscription asking that God's blessing might ever [five lines cut away.]
My nephew's business circular 695 was received with much interest. What a pity we have not a lawyer in the family! With best love to all,
Yours, dear friend, in true affection
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Mrs. William Cross, London, 4 January [1873], 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/93727