GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Homburg, 10 October 1872
Title
GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Homburg, 10 October 1872
Title
GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Homburg, 10 October 1872
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1872-10-10
Place
Homburg
Letter Content
GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Homburg, 10 October 1872
MS: Mrs. Carrington Ouvry. Extracts published: Paterson, pp. 161-163.
Homburg Thursday 10 October 1872.
Dearest Boy
Your pleasant letter came like added sunshine to the sunshine of our sky. The weather has been very variable and today le temps est 'e0 l'eau very decidedly, 610 but we have had some exquisite days and on the whole cannot complain. The autumn tints are unusually varied and brilliant, and Darby and Joan enjoy their long solitary walks all the more as a contrast to the tumult of cackle in the Kursaal. The Wigans 611 (whom to avoid we employed the strategy of a Von Moltke, and whose proffered hospitalities after vaguely postponing I point blank declined as "among the impossibilities") have departed at last. But Lady C. after three days at Baden Baden so much regretted the loss of the Mutter's society that she wrote to say if we were going to remain she should return to Homburg; and this she did, bringing Lord C. and Mrs. W. with her. 612 She is a very dear creature and I like her more and more.
But unhappily there are other grandeurs here who want to get hold of us. The Countess Usedom 613 (wife of Bismark's predecessor) has succeeded
Except a visit to Frankfurt to do some shopping I don't think anything out of the programme has occurred since I wrote. Les jours se suivent. We continue to like Homburg very much and propose returning when the gambling is at an end. It has done me some good, and the Mutter also, but not so much as if we had been here earlier in warmer weather which would have permitted our passing the day chiefly in the open air.
From all I hear you have had worse weather in England, so that we congratulate ourselves on being out of it. Gertrude and Blanche have not suffered? Our love to them and to Margaret. The kiss was duly transmitted to the Mutter. Do thou likewise pay the debt!
Ever your loving
Pater.
MS: Mrs. Carrington Ouvry. Extracts published: Paterson, pp. 161-163.
Homburg Thursday 10 October 1872.
Dearest Boy
Your pleasant letter came like added sunshine to the sunshine of our sky. The weather has been very variable and today le temps est 'e0 l'eau very decidedly, 610 but we have had some exquisite days and on the whole cannot complain. The autumn tints are unusually varied and brilliant, and Darby and Joan enjoy their long solitary walks all the more as a contrast to the tumult of cackle in the Kursaal. The Wigans 611 (whom to avoid we employed the strategy of a Von Moltke, and whose proffered hospitalities after vaguely postponing I point blank declined as "among the impossibilities") have departed at last. But Lady C. after three days at Baden Baden so much regretted the loss of the Mutter's society that she wrote to say if we were going to remain she should return to Homburg; and this she did, bringing Lord C. and Mrs. W. with her. 612 She is a very dear creature and I like her more and more.
But unhappily there are other grandeurs here who want to get hold of us. The Countess Usedom 613 (wife of Bismark's predecessor) has succeeded
Except a visit to Frankfurt to do some shopping I don't think anything out of the programme has occurred since I wrote. Les jours se suivent. We continue to like Homburg very much and propose returning when the gambling is at an end. It has done me some good, and the Mutter also, but not so much as if we had been here earlier in warmer weather which would have permitted our passing the day chiefly in the open air.
From all I hear you have had worse weather in England, so that we congratulate ourselves on being out of it. Gertrude and Blanche have not suffered? Our love to them and to Margaret. The kiss was duly transmitted to the Mutter. Do thou likewise pay the debt!
Ever your loving
Pater.
Signature
Pater.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Homburg, 10 October 1872, 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/94460