SD1527. George Eliot to Cara Bray

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 277 (in part).

142 Strand

November 27. [1851]

Dear Cara

I am a wretch today—head aching ever since Saturday—draughts and pills for the last two days …

Carlyle called the other day, strongly recommending Browning the poet as a writer for the Review, and saying “We shall see” about himself. …

Publication: The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight (New Haven, Conn., 1954–78), 1, 376–377.

Manuscript: Yale University.

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