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George Eliot: Letter CR3989/3/2/4
Author: George Eliot
Recipient: Alice Helps
Date: 30th November 1875
Category: The Helps Letters
County Record Office Ref: CR3989/3/2/4
Nuneaton Library Facsimile: yes
Transcript: yes
Description
In this letter to Alice Helps, George Eliot declines the offer of companionship to see 'Iolanthe', as 'Mr Lewes is to take me'. She tells how on their return to the Priory in October they were forced to endure the smell of paint in the drawing room and were 'obliged...to live for three weeks in my study '. At the end of her letter she notes that 'Mr Lewes is ailing. I am not more dowdy than usual'. Written from the Priory, Regent's Park. Signed M E Lewes.
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Transcript
The Priory,
21, North Bank
Regents Park.
Nov. 30. 75
My dear Alice
Mr. Lewes is to take me, else I should have been glad of your sweet guardianship in going to see ‘Iolanthe’.
I have not been able to deserve your remembrance in any way except by often thinking of you. This I have done, but I have not had ten spare minutes to spend in telling you of it. We came home about the middle of October, but, to our annoyance. found a smell of paint in the drawing room which obliged us to live for three weeks in my study.
We are now at large in the house as usual, & there is no one we should like to see better than you, if it were not unreasonable to wish that you should come so far in the cold without some duteous zeal to warm you on the way.
Only remember that you have two cordial friends in this corner, whom your presence will gladden.
Mr. Lewes is ailing. I am not more dowdy than usual.
Always yours affectionately
M. E. Lewes
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