Letter to Mrs A. Helps p.1
(Alice Helps is the daughter of Sir Arthur Helps clerk of the Privy Council). It is through Sir Arthur that George Eliot discovered that Queen Victoria enjoyed her work. In this letter Eliot asks Alice ...
Letter to Mrs A. Helps p.1
Eliot arranges to see Alice two days after this letter is written when she actually stays for dinner.
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The Priory,
21, North Bank
Regents Park.
Mar. 28. 74.
My dear - may I ...
Letter to Mrs A. Helps p.1
Eliot thanks Alice for the present of a pocket.
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The Priory,
21, North Bank
Regents Park.
June 7. 75
The Pocket is perfect my sweet providence & will be a comfort to me in my ...
Letter to Mrs A. Helps p.1
Eliot thanks Alice for her invitation to see Iolanthe at the Haymarket in December but declines as she is going with Lewes. She talks about various domestic arrangements but ends on a humorous note "I ...
Letter to Mrs Cash p.1
A letter to Mary thanking her for informing her of her father Reverend John Sibree's death.
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The Priory,
21, North Bank
Regents Park.
April 10. 77
My dear Mrs. Cash
I thank ...
Letter to Mrs Cash, envelope front
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Mrs cash
Rosehill
Coventry
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Mrs Cash, envelope front
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Mrs Cash
Keresley Vicarage
Coventry
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Mrs Cash, p.1 and 4
Eliot writes to Mary (nee Sibree) thanking her for visiting and apologising for not being able to spend more time with her. Eliot and Lewes receive seventeen other visitors on this day!
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The ...
Letter to Mrs John Cash, envelope
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Mrs Cash
Rosehill
Coventry
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Mrs John Cash, envelope
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Mrs John Cash
Rosehill
Coventry
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Mrs John Cash, p.1 and 4
Eliot thanks Mary for a copy of her book entitled "The Credentials of Conscience" and expresses her affection for Mary although they've not seen each other for a while.
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The Priory,
21 ...
Letter to Mrs John Cash, p.1 and 4
Mary Ann is now living with George Henry Lewes and signs this letter M.E.Lewes. She met Lewes first in 1851 but didn't start her affair with him until 1853. They lived together from 1855 until his death ...
Letter to 'My Dear Bluebell'
A two page letter from Leamington Spa sent to 'My Dear Bluebell'. The letter is dated 19th November 1964.
Letter to Oscar Browning, envelope front.
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Mrs Trollope
Villa Trollope
Florence
Note: George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Letter to Oscar Browning, p.1
Eliot writes to Oscar for some photographs of Sicily. She mentions Thornton Lewes' illness, he died three months later of cancer.
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The Priory,
21, North Bank,
Regents Park
July 22. ...
Letter written by Anna Eliza Jarrett to her brother, Thomas, during a visit to Norfolk (page 5)
A letter written by Anna Jarrett to her brother, Thomas Wathen Waller, a diplomat at the British Embassy in Constantinople. The letter was sent from Witton House, Blofield, Norwich and in it Anna discusses ...
Letter written by Anna Jarrett to her brother Thomas, after recovering from childbirth and illness (pages 1 and 4)
A letter written by Anna Eliza Jarrett to her brother, Thomas Wathen Waller, following childbirth and serious illness. Using their childhood names, she writes to 'Pothy' and signs herself 'Kittie'.
She ...
Letters Patent creating Jonathan Wathen Waller a baronet
Letters Patent of King George III creating Jonathan Wathen Waller of Braywick Lodge, Berkshire and of Twickenham, Middlesex, esquire, a baronet, with portrait of the King in top left hand corner.