GE to William Allingham, Witley, 26 August [1877]
Title
GE to William Allingham, Witley, 26 August [1877]
Title
GE to William Allingham, Witley, 26 August [1877]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
William Allingham
Date(s)
- 1877-08-26
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to William Allingham, Witley, 26 August [1877]
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Published: Cross, III, 313-314.
The Heights, | Witley, | Godalming | August 26.
Dear Mr. Allingham
I hope that this letter will not find you at the old address but that it may be sent on to you in some delicious nook where your dear wife is by your side preparing to make us all richer with store of new sketches.
I almost fear that I am implying unbecoming claims in asking you to send me a word or two of news about your twofold -- nay fourfold self. But you must excuse in me a presumption which is simply a feeling of spiritual kinship bred by reading in the volume you gave me before we left town. 738 That tremendous tramp -- "Life, Death; Life, Death," makes me care the more, as age makes it the more audible to me, for those younger ones who are keeping step behind me.
It is a burthen to write notes, but let us bear it in turn. With affectionate remembrances to your wife,
Always yours truly
M. E. Lewes.
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Published: Cross, III, 313-314.
The Heights, | Witley, | Godalming | August 26.
Dear Mr. Allingham
I hope that this letter will not find you at the old address but that it may be sent on to you in some delicious nook where your dear wife is by your side preparing to make us all richer with store of new sketches.
I almost fear that I am implying unbecoming claims in asking you to send me a word or two of news about your twofold -- nay fourfold self. But you must excuse in me a presumption which is simply a feeling of spiritual kinship bred by reading in the volume you gave me before we left town. 738 That tremendous tramp -- "Life, Death; Life, Death," makes me care the more, as age makes it the more audible to me, for those younger ones who are keeping step behind me.
It is a burthen to write notes, but let us bear it in turn. With affectionate remembrances to your wife,
Always yours truly
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to William Allingham, Witley, 26 August [1877], 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/94175