Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray to Sara Sophia Hennell, Coventry, 11 September 1848
Title
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray to Sara Sophia Hennell, Coventry, 11 September 1848
Title
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray to Sara Sophia Hennell, Coventry, 11 September 1848
Sender
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1848-09-11
Place
Coventry
Letter Content
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray to Sara Sophia Hennell, Coventry, 11 September 1848
Text: Bray-Hennell Extracts, Tinker Collection, Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
We are very anxious about M.A. and shall be very thankful to hear that all is over. Her father gets rapidly worse. The doctors expect his death to take place suddenly, by a suffusion of water on the chest; and poor M.A., alone with him, has the whole care and fatigue of nursing him night and day with this constant nervous expectation. She keeps up wonderfully mentally, but looks like a ghost. It is a great comfort that he is now quite aware of his situation, and was not in the least discomposed when Isaac told him he might die suddenly. It was quite a pleasure to see him sitting in his chair looking so calm just after he had known this; and he takes opportunities now of saying kind things to M.A., contrary to his wont. Poor girl, it shows how rare they are by the gratitude with which she repeats the commonest expressions of kindness. 761
Text: Bray-Hennell Extracts, Tinker Collection, Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
We are very anxious about M.A. and shall be very thankful to hear that all is over. Her father gets rapidly worse. The doctors expect his death to take place suddenly, by a suffusion of water on the chest; and poor M.A., alone with him, has the whole care and fatigue of nursing him night and day with this constant nervous expectation. She keeps up wonderfully mentally, but looks like a ghost. It is a great comfort that he is now quite aware of his situation, and was not in the least discomposed when Isaac told him he might die suddenly. It was quite a pleasure to see him sitting in his chair looking so calm just after he had known this; and he takes opportunities now of saying kind things to M.A., contrary to his wont. Poor girl, it shows how rare they are by the gratitude with which she repeats the commonest expressions of kindness. 761
Citation
Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray, Caroline [Mrs. Charles] Bray to Sara Sophia Hennell, Coventry, 11 September 1848, 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/95554