ELIOT, George [pseudonym of Marian Evans (1819-1880)]. Autograph letter in purple ink signed ('M.A. Cross') to Mrs [Alfred] Tennyson, The Heights, Witley, near Godalming, 5 November 1880, 2 pages, 8vo , with 2 integral blanks (grey paper adhering to final blank after its removal from album). Provenance : Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln, sold Sotheby's, London, 22 July 1980, lot 372, to Brown.
ELIOT, George [pseudonym of Marian Evans (1819-1880)]. Autograph letter in purple ink signed ('M.A. Cross') to Mrs [Alfred] Tennyson, The Heights, Witley, near Godalming, 5 November 1880, 2 pages, 8vo , with 2 integral blanks (grey paper adhering to final blank after its removal from album). Provenance : Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln, sold Sotheby's, London, 22 July 1980, lot 372, to Brown. The 'regret' she feels on finding Emily Tenyson's visiting cards after returning from a drive 'has been deepened by my inability to get to Aldworth.' She frankly explains: 'I have been rather seriously ill, & am not allowed to be out in the open air for more than one hour in the scant sunshine. One seems to be making too much of such facts by writing about them, but I cannot bear to seem unmindful of any friendly sign made to me by you & yours.' She has heard 'that you are in some respects better in health than you were last year, & that Mr Tennyson is as energetic & bright as usual ....' While the postscript adds: 'Mr Cross feels himself a loser, that he has missed this year's opportunity of making yours & Mr Tennyson's acquaintance. I am hoping that Mr. Hallam may find his way to us when we are in town at 4, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.' The Witley address is emotive, as is Marian's mention of her last home at Cheyne Walk. The Leweses had spent 'only two idyllic summers' at The Heights, in Witley, near Haslemere, Surrey, before George Lewes's death on 30 November, 1878. The inconsolable Marian filled her journal with verses from Tennyson's In Memoriam . But on 6 May 1880 she married John Walter Cross the banker who had found the house at Witley for them. After a honeymoon in which Cross, who was twenty years younger, threw himself from the balcony of their Venice hotel into the Grand Canal, they returned to Witley. On 3 December they moved into their splendid new house at 4 Cheyne Walk, but Marian was now gravely ill and died on 22 December 1880. Why, six weeks or so earlier, had Emily Tennyson not waited longer to see her? The two women had first met when the Leweses spent the summer of 1871 at Shottermill, a few miles from Aldworth. Emily recorded the facts in her journal, but revealing details were omitted from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a Memoir , such was 'the delicacy that ladies felt about calling on George Eliot' (see Gordon Haight, George Eliot , Oxford, 1968, p. 439). Published in Gordon S. Haight, The George Eliot Letters , 9 vols., 1954-1978, IX, pp. 316-17.
ELIOT, George [pseudonym of Marian Evans (1819-1880)]. Autograph letter in purple ink signed ('M.A. Cross') to Mrs [Alfred] Tennyson, The Heights, Witley, near Godalming, 5 November 1880, 2 pages, 8vo , with 2 integral blanks (grey paper adhering to final blank after its removal from album). Provenance : Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln, sold Sotheby's, London, 22 July 1980, lot 372, to Brown.
ELIOT, George [pseudonym of Marian Evans (1819-1880)]. Autograph letter in purple ink signed ('M.A. Cross') to Mrs [Alfred] Tennyson, The Heights, Witley, near Godalming, 5 November 1880, 2 pages, 8vo , with 2 integral blanks (grey paper adhering to final blank after its removal from album). Provenance : Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln, sold Sotheby's, London, 22 July 1980, lot 372, to Brown. The 'regret' she feels on finding Emily Tenyson's visiting cards after returning from a drive 'has been deepened by my inability to get to Aldworth.' She frankly explains: 'I have been rather seriously ill, & am not allowed to be out in the open air for more than one hour in the scant sunshine. One seems to be making too much of such facts by writing about them, but I cannot bear to seem unmindful of any friendly sign made to me by you & yours.' She has heard 'that you are in some respects better in health than you were last year, & that Mr Tennyson is as energetic & bright as usual ....' While the postscript adds: 'Mr Cross feels himself a loser, that he has missed this year's opportunity of making yours & Mr Tennyson's acquaintance. I am hoping that Mr. Hallam may find his way to us when we are in town at 4, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.' The Witley address is emotive, as is Marian's mention of her last home at Cheyne Walk. The Leweses had spent 'only two idyllic summers' at The Heights, in Witley, near Haslemere, Surrey, before George Lewes's death on 30 November, 1878. The inconsolable Marian filled her journal with verses from Tennyson's In Memoriam . But on 6 May 1880 she married John Walter Cross the banker who had found the house at Witley for them. After a honeymoon in which Cross, who was twenty years younger, threw himself from the balcony of their Venice hotel into the Grand Canal, they returned to Witley. On 3 December they moved into their splendid new house at 4 Cheyne Walk, but Marian was now gravely ill and died on 22 December 1880. Why, six weeks or so earlier, had Emily Tennyson not waited longer to see her? The two women had first met when the Leweses spent the summer of 1871 at Shottermill, a few miles from Aldworth. Emily recorded the facts in her journal, but revealing details were omitted from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a Memoir , such was 'the delicacy that ladies felt about calling on George Eliot' (see Gordon Haight, George Eliot , Oxford, 1968, p. 439). Published in Gordon S. Haight, The George Eliot Letters , 9 vols., 1954-1978, IX, pp. 316-17.
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