GHL to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 19 November 1876
Title
GHL to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 19 November 1876
Title
GHL to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 19 November 1876
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Mrs. Elma Stuart
Date(s)
- 1876-11-19
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 19 November 1876
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 66-67.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Sunday | 19 November 76.
Dear Elma
We both exclaimed "What a handsome fellow!" as the photo met our eyes -- he has indeed a sweet and noble expression, and I have placed him, beside his mother, in the small album reserved for Family Phizzes -- away from the herd.
Madonna in bidding me send her love hopes that with each anniversary of our friendship-making there will be a renewal of love, and
Here a visitor 556 interrupted my sentence and what it was going to be I can't recover. Never mind, it was something loving you may be sure.
She has been ailing a good deal lately, toothache succeeded by tooth drawing 557 -- biliousness and general depression. But she seems all right again now. I have had lumbago, 558 but have not been prevented doing my work, which is all I can expect. Charles and Gertrude have left their country cottage and come back into our fogs -- they and the children flourishing.
At no distant time -- when I have made use of them -- I shall send you for your autograph collection several pages of notes by Charles Darwin written by him 'e0propos of my articles on his hypothesis which appeared some years ago in the Fortnightly Review. 559 They are very interesting as notes -- and as autographs you may prize them; at any rate there is no one I would sooner give them to.
Ever your loving
G. H. L.
MS: British Museum. Published: Stuart, pp. 66-67.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Sunday | 19 November 76.
Dear Elma
We both exclaimed "What a handsome fellow!" as the photo met our eyes -- he has indeed a sweet and noble expression, and I have placed him, beside his mother, in the small album reserved for Family Phizzes -- away from the herd.
Madonna in bidding me send her love hopes that with each anniversary of our friendship-making there will be a renewal of love, and
Here a visitor 556 interrupted my sentence and what it was going to be I can't recover. Never mind, it was something loving you may be sure.
She has been ailing a good deal lately, toothache succeeded by tooth drawing 557 -- biliousness and general depression. But she seems all right again now. I have had lumbago, 558 but have not been prevented doing my work, which is all I can expect. Charles and Gertrude have left their country cottage and come back into our fogs -- they and the children flourishing.
At no distant time -- when I have made use of them -- I shall send you for your autograph collection several pages of notes by Charles Darwin written by him 'e0propos of my articles on his hypothesis which appeared some years ago in the Fortnightly Review. 559 They are very interesting as notes -- and as autographs you may prize them; at any rate there is no one I would sooner give them to.
Ever your loving
G. H. L.
Signature
G. H. L.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Mrs. Elma Stuart, London, 19 November 1876, 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/94939