Thornton Arnott Lewes to GHL, Durban, 7 October 1864
Title
Thornton Arnott Lewes to GHL, Durban, 7 October 1864
Title
Thornton Arnott Lewes to GHL, Durban, 7 October 1864
Sender
Thornton Arnott Lewes
Recipient
n Arnott Lewes
Date(s)
- 1864-10-07
Place
Durban
Letter Content
Thornton Arnott Lewes to GHL, Durban, 7 October 1864
MS: Yale.
Durban 7 October | 1864.
Dear Pater,
I have got a letter to answer, and am short of news, so that I can't favour you with a long epistle. My next I shall write three months hence, when I come back from my second trip up country. I am not going up alone as originally intended, but a fellow passenger per "Damietta," is coming with me as my partner. His name is Cronin, and his Father is a homeopathic Doctor 629 in the south of London. We have been running about busily to get credit, for the last fortnight, and we start about the 16 October, just a year since we left England. We are going up to the Transvaal and you may expect a long and interesting letter when I come back. I hope you will see it in the same light that I do that if I write every 3 months a 12 page letter, and you write every month a 4 pager, that our reciprocity is mutual and equal! So that henceforth I may expect a letter every mail.
Many happy returns of Mutter and Charlie's birthdays. Love to Grandmamma, Mamma, 630 Nursie etc. etc.
Your affectionate Son
Thornton Lewes.
MS: Yale.
Durban 7 October | 1864.
Dear Pater,
I have got a letter to answer, and am short of news, so that I can't favour you with a long epistle. My next I shall write three months hence, when I come back from my second trip up country. I am not going up alone as originally intended, but a fellow passenger per "Damietta," is coming with me as my partner. His name is Cronin, and his Father is a homeopathic Doctor 629 in the south of London. We have been running about busily to get credit, for the last fortnight, and we start about the 16 October, just a year since we left England. We are going up to the Transvaal and you may expect a long and interesting letter when I come back. I hope you will see it in the same light that I do that if I write every 3 months a 12 page letter, and you write every month a 4 pager, that our reciprocity is mutual and equal! So that henceforth I may expect a letter every mail.
Many happy returns of Mutter and Charlie's birthdays. Love to Grandmamma, Mamma, 630 Nursie etc. etc.
Your affectionate Son
Thornton Lewes.
Signature
Thornton Lewes.
Citation
Thornton Arnott Lewes, Thornton Arnott Lewes to GHL, Durban, 7 October 1864, 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/95613