February 9th, 1863 To: John M.F. Ludlow, editor of the Christian socialist journal The Reader My dear Mr. Ludlow, I am very glad you liked my paper; and please do what you think best with the rest of the MSS [manuscript]. IF you think its being published will do any good, please let it be…
Category: Letters
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 20th
January 28, 1863 A lady with the surname of James, whose mother donated a counterpane coverlet My dear Madam (for you see I am not quite sure if you are Mrs, or Miss James –or else I should be only too glad to address you in the pleasant and friendly way you do to me–)…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 19th
June 22nd, 1858 To: Harriette Bright, sister of Henry Arthur Bright and a friend of Gaskell’s daughter Marianne My dear Harriette, Lindeth Tower* sounds very grand; but it is a queer ugly square tower in our garden, –which latter is fuller of weeds, and general entanglement than any place you ever saw before, –so don’t…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 18th
March 15th, 1856 To: Harriet Anderson née Carr, a good friend of Elizabeth Gaskell in Newcastle …When all my four girls are at home we have only one large spare room and one very small one; but between out return from Scotland and Christmas we had nineteen people staying in the house! So I think…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 17th
May 25th, 1858 To: Louis Hachette, founder of Hatchette et Cie, a French publishing company You are quite right in supposing that I should be glad to know any details of your progress, and literary plans which you may give me. I am particularly interested in all you tell me. If the journalist you have…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 16th
December 14, 1860 To: Edward E. Hale, a prominent Boston Unitarian minister and friends with the Gaskell family My dear Mr. Hale, …You left us… [with] Mr. Gaskell just going to have a new colleague, a Mr. Drummond, aged 25, at whose ordination you were to have assisted, only you didn’t. Well! Mr. Drummond came;…
Postal Delivery: Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 15th
April 13, 1858 To: Lady Mary Fielding, twin sister of the 8th Earl of Denbigh …There is a sort of exaggerated confidence in human strength to do right, — and an idea that we can ever feel satisfied with that we have done. Painting: Gainsborough’s Forest, by Thomas Gainsborough Source: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, J. A….
Postal Delivery: Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 14th
February 24, 1865 To: John Ruskin, art critic My dear Mr. Ruskin, …I will tell… a bit more of ‘Cranford’ that I did not dare to put in, because I thought people would say it was too ridiculous, and yet which really happened in Knutsford. Two Old ladies, friends of mine in my girlhood, had…
Postal Delivery: Daily Quotes from Mrs. Gaskell’s Letters – June 11th
November 20, 1852 To: Mary Green, the wife of a Unitarian minister and a good friend My dear Mary, …Ruth ‘has yet to be written, ‘ which is an expression I used only this morning to William before your letter came. I mean it is far from completion and I feel uncertain if it ever…
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