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“What a certainty of instinctive faith I have in heaven, and in the Mama’s living on”: Unpublished letters of Mrs. Gaskell and unpublished Gaskell family letters.
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Letter 9
MARGARET EMILY (“META”) GASKELL TO HENRY CROMPTON 26 JULY [1870]
(Cranford) Knutsford | July 26. [1870]@“Cranford” and “1870” written in a different hand from that of the letter.
My dear Harry,
You must not think my congratulations@Probably a reference to the engagement of Henry Crompton to Lucy Henrietta, daughter of John Romilly, first Lord Romilly. They married on the 8 November 1870. See The Letters of George Henry Lewes Volume III with New George Eliot Letters, ed., William Baker (Victoria, B. C., : English Literary Studies, 1999), 59. are any the less hearty, because they are of necessity short — But pray believe that I am quite delighted at this great piece of good news, & wish you joy from the bottom of my heart.
How I should like to know every detail!
But you will be too busy, with other correspondence, to wish for claims on your writing time. So do not even acknowledge this, but only believe me, your very glad,
very affect
M.E. Gaskell
My dear Harry,
You must not think my congratulations@Probably a reference to the engagement of Henry Crompton to Lucy Henrietta, daughter of John Romilly, first Lord Romilly. They married on the 8 November 1870. See The Letters of George Henry Lewes Volume III with New George Eliot Letters, ed., William Baker (Victoria, B. C., : English Literary Studies, 1999), 59. are any the less hearty, because they are of necessity short — But pray believe that I am quite delighted at this great piece of good news, & wish you joy from the bottom of my heart.
How I should like to know every detail!
But you will be too busy, with other correspondence, to wish for claims on your writing time. So do not even acknowledge this, but only believe me, your very glad,
very affect
M.E. Gaskell
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