Letter from George Eliot, Foleshill, to Martha Jackson Barclay, 1841 September 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing to her in Brighton and assuring her that she is delighted to think that she is enjoying herself there; discussing her hopes for spiritual progress and her conviction that duty and active service "even attended with a degree of arduousness in the exercise of virtue will be among the circumstantials of future bliss."; recommending [John Pringle] Nichol's work on astronomy, and mentioning that she has read Dr. P. Smith's [i.e. John Pye-Smith's?] work "on the connexion between Scripture and Geology"; asking her friend to explain the "London sorrows" to which she has previously alluded, adding "I suspect you of some malversation, you ruthless manslayer!"; noting that she has had an interview "with Mr. Mark Wilks of Paris", whom she found to be "a most interesting man"; mentioning mutual friends and acquaintances and urging her to come visit her at Foleshill.