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George Eliot: Letter CR3989/3/2/6
Author: George Eliot
Recipient: Alice Helps (fragment)
Date: unkown
Category: The Helps Letters
County Record Office Ref: CR3989/3/2/6
Nuneaton Library Facsimile: yes
Transcript: yes
Description
Fragment of a letter written by George Eliot to Alice Helps, offering condolences, 'a silent pressure of the hand...', on the death of the latter's father. Written from The Priory, Regent's Park. Dated Monday only. The signature has been torn from the letter.
On the reverse of this letter in another 19th century hand is written, 'The double autograph of G H Lewes and G Eliot asked for by the Queen [Victoria] on seeing this letter'
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Transcript
[Written between 01/01/1864 and 31/12/1879]
The Priory,
21, North Bank,
Regents Park
Dear Alice
A silent pressure of your hand to assure that you that the calamity whch has fallen on you is felt by us. We know how devoted your love for your father – we know how loveable he was – nothing more to be said!
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