SD2463. George Henry Lewes to Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 291 (in part).

16 Blandford Square N.W.

5 July 1861

My dear Trollope

We have now read ‘La Beata’ and must tell you how charmed we have been with it. Nina herself is …

He told us of the sad news of Mrs. Browning’s death. Poor Browning! that was my first, and remains my constant reflection. When people love each other, and have lived together any time, they ought to die together. For myself I should not care in the least <who> about dying;—the dreadful thing to me would be to live after losing, if I ever should lose the one who has made life for me. Of course you who all knew and valued her will feel the loss, but I can’t think of anybody’s grief but his.

Publication: The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight (New Haven, Conn., 1954–78), 8, 286–288.

Manuscript: Johns Hopkins University.

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