GE to Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 26 September 1862
Title
GE to Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 26 September 1862
Title
GE to Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 26 September 1862
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Date(s)
- 1862-09-26
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 26 September 1862
MS: University of California Los Angeles (on the same sheet as GHL's letter).
Dear Mr. Trollope
I do not gather from your letter whether Mrs. Trollope is come back to you or not. 586 Wherever she may be, please offer her my best love, and tell her I care a great deal about any kind thoughts there may be in her mind towards me; and about any pleasure what I can do may ever give her. -- For many reasons I should like to be writing at Florence instead of in London. One reason is, that there are constantly questions rising in my work which I should like to consult you about still oftener than the libraries. I feel painfully, that with the utmost care I am able to give, I must make horrible mistakes. But there is one grand reason for keeping at home, that outweighs every disadvantage, it is the absolute necessity to me of an even, quiet life when I am writing. You are not a little enviable in having your nice home on the spot where all the materials for your work are around you. I hope you are very happy in it, for it is a work greatly worth labour.
Will you give a message from me to Miss Blagden? -- and tell her that I felt her kindness in remembering that little wish of mine to have the photograph of Mrs. Storey's children 587 and in taking trouble to gratify it. I liked the fact of her remembering me quite as much as I liked the pretty photograph. I hope her health is better now than when she was near us in London, and that she has found a new house to her taste. 588
I imagine you under the Loggia smoking those excellent cigars of which George still speaks with fervour, and talking to your changing groups of visitors. I shall think myself very happy if I ever sit under that Loggia again with "Romola" in the distance fairly ended, so as not at least to have degraded a great subject. If fasting and a knotted cord would help one, anxiety might be stilled a little at the expense of one's body.
I suppose you will have Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Trollope with you soon. Surely October must be the most delicious of all months for Italy! Both our visits were made in the spring, and I long for another to be made in autumn; yet when next spring comes the temptation to take our holiday in Italy may be too strong for us to wait till the next September.
Beatrice will not forget us, I hope, for we often recall her to our minds. Please call a kiss or two, that you next give her, mine instead of yours.
M. E. L.
MS: University of California Los Angeles (on the same sheet as GHL's letter).
Dear Mr. Trollope
I do not gather from your letter whether Mrs. Trollope is come back to you or not. 586 Wherever she may be, please offer her my best love, and tell her I care a great deal about any kind thoughts there may be in her mind towards me; and about any pleasure what I can do may ever give her. -- For many reasons I should like to be writing at Florence instead of in London. One reason is, that there are constantly questions rising in my work which I should like to consult you about still oftener than the libraries. I feel painfully, that with the utmost care I am able to give, I must make horrible mistakes. But there is one grand reason for keeping at home, that outweighs every disadvantage, it is the absolute necessity to me of an even, quiet life when I am writing. You are not a little enviable in having your nice home on the spot where all the materials for your work are around you. I hope you are very happy in it, for it is a work greatly worth labour.
Will you give a message from me to Miss Blagden? -- and tell her that I felt her kindness in remembering that little wish of mine to have the photograph of Mrs. Storey's children 587 and in taking trouble to gratify it. I liked the fact of her remembering me quite as much as I liked the pretty photograph. I hope her health is better now than when she was near us in London, and that she has found a new house to her taste. 588
I imagine you under the Loggia smoking those excellent cigars of which George still speaks with fervour, and talking to your changing groups of visitors. I shall think myself very happy if I ever sit under that Loggia again with "Romola" in the distance fairly ended, so as not at least to have degraded a great subject. If fasting and a knotted cord would help one, anxiety might be stilled a little at the expense of one's body.
I suppose you will have Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Trollope with you soon. Surely October must be the most delicious of all months for Italy! Both our visits were made in the spring, and I long for another to be made in autumn; yet when next spring comes the temptation to take our holiday in Italy may be too strong for us to wait till the next September.
Beatrice will not forget us, I hope, for we often recall her to our minds. Please call a kiss or two, that you next give her, mine instead of yours.
M. E. L.
Signature
M. E. L.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 26 September 1862, 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/94162