GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Redhill, [19 June 1872]
Title
GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Redhill, [19 June 1872]
Title
GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Redhill, [19 June 1872]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Charles Lee Lewes
Date(s)
- 1872-06-19
Place
Redhill
Letter Content
GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Redhill, [19 June 1872]
Text: Paterson, pp. 160-161, where it is dated 13 July 1872.
Elversley, | Park Road, | Red Hill. | Thursday
Dearest Boy,
The superb weather is co-operating with the perfect quiet to bring back the colour and the oval to the Mutter's cheek. She is visibly and almost daily improving in strength, enjoys her life here and her work and is writing splendidly. The house is very comfortable, shut out from the world amid fields -- not a sound except hens cackling and dogs barking reaches us -- not a soul knows where we are, so we haven't even many letters to disturb us. As a place it is not comparable to Limpsfield or Haslemere, but it is still very lovely and quiet, our domestic arrangements are all easy and pleasant.
To employ my day I went on Saturday to the Crystal Palace -- a drearier day's pleasure I never spent. It is the last visit I shall pay that Cockney Paradise.
I overheard the comment of two young ladies, dressed in the extravagance of fashion, who on being called to look at the Octopus, gave a contemptuous glance and remarked -- "Well, I don't think it is at all pretty." "Nor do I," replied the other. Exeunt ladies! Wouldn't this do for du Maurier? 533 How is that dear fellow? I wish I could see his sweet smile and hear his delicious voice occasionally.
I hope the book will be completely finished before we return. God bless you.
Ever your loving
Pater.
Text: Paterson, pp. 160-161, where it is dated 13 July 1872.
Elversley, | Park Road, | Red Hill. | Thursday
Dearest Boy,
The superb weather is co-operating with the perfect quiet to bring back the colour and the oval to the Mutter's cheek. She is visibly and almost daily improving in strength, enjoys her life here and her work and is writing splendidly. The house is very comfortable, shut out from the world amid fields -- not a sound except hens cackling and dogs barking reaches us -- not a soul knows where we are, so we haven't even many letters to disturb us. As a place it is not comparable to Limpsfield or Haslemere, but it is still very lovely and quiet, our domestic arrangements are all easy and pleasant.
To employ my day I went on Saturday to the Crystal Palace -- a drearier day's pleasure I never spent. It is the last visit I shall pay that Cockney Paradise.
I overheard the comment of two young ladies, dressed in the extravagance of fashion, who on being called to look at the Octopus, gave a contemptuous glance and remarked -- "Well, I don't think it is at all pretty." "Nor do I," replied the other. Exeunt ladies! Wouldn't this do for du Maurier? 533 How is that dear fellow? I wish I could see his sweet smile and hear his delicious voice occasionally.
I hope the book will be completely finished before we return. God bless you.
Ever your loving
Pater.
Signature
Pater.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Charles Lee Lewes, Redhill, [19 June 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/94472