GHL to Mrs. Frederick Lehmann, London, [? May 1867]
Title
GHL to Mrs. Frederick Lehmann, London, [? May 1867]
Title
GHL to Mrs. Frederick Lehmann, London, [? May 1867]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Mrs. Frederick Lehmann
Date(s)
- 1867-05
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to Mrs. Frederick Lehmann, London, [? May 1867]
MS: Yale. Published: R. C. Lehmann, Memories of Half a Century, 1908, pp. 134-135 date 1864; the paper is watermarked 1866.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Wednesday.
Sweet little Woman!
The extremely youthful George will certainly break through his rule (for what are rules good but to be broken?) and present himself arrayed in great splendour (i.e. tail coat and waxed whiskers) on Tuesday next. But oh! how little impression his pothooks and signature must have made on your insensible soul that you should mistake them for his better twothirds! I wrote to you -- "alone I did it!" 748 -- Polly having installed me in the office of general secretary -- with instructions to give her hearty love and wish to see you which of course I forgot.
Come up on Sunday if you can -- if not, any other afternoon after 4. 749
Ever yours faithfully
G. H. Lewes.
MS: Yale. Published: R. C. Lehmann, Memories of Half a Century, 1908, pp. 134-135 date 1864; the paper is watermarked 1866.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Wednesday.
Sweet little Woman!
The extremely youthful George will certainly break through his rule (for what are rules good but to be broken?) and present himself arrayed in great splendour (i.e. tail coat and waxed whiskers) on Tuesday next. But oh! how little impression his pothooks and signature must have made on your insensible soul that you should mistake them for his better twothirds! I wrote to you -- "alone I did it!" 748 -- Polly having installed me in the office of general secretary -- with instructions to give her hearty love and wish to see you which of course I forgot.
Come up on Sunday if you can -- if not, any other afternoon after 4. 749
Ever yours faithfully
G. H. Lewes.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Mrs. Frederick Lehmann, London, [? May 1867], 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/94952