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The Collected Letters, Volume 21

JWC TO JOHN FORSTER; 23 May 1847; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18470523-JWC-JF-01; CL 21:217-218.

JWC TO JOHN FORSTER

[ca. 23 May 1847]

Thanks Dear Mr Forster—I will keep the ticket.1 Besides any pleasure I may get to myself; It is not unlikely that our Half-Sister2 may turn up before Wednesday—

I have not heard a word from any of the excited party 3—but live in hourly expectation of seeing them back—

Meanwhile I drink a tumbler of cold water and take a short walk every morning before breakfast—a la Harriet Martineau—to strengthen my nerves for the worst.

Ever affectionately yours

Jane Carlyle 4

Sourcenote

JWC-JF, [ca. 23 May]. MS: NLS 603.235. Hitherto unpbd. Tentatively dated by Geraldine Jewsbury's arrival at Cheyne Row, 25 May (see JWC to HW, [25 May]).

Footnotes

1. Perhaps to Covent Garden Opera House; see JWC to JW, 10 June, where JWC says that Forster had given her a ticket for a box at the opera.

2. Geraldine Jewsbury, whose novel The Half Sisters (1848) JWC had been reading in MS. TC has noted “(Geraldine)” on the letter.

3. Unidentified.

4. On 25 May JWC, with Caroline Fox and Samuel Laurence, visited Thomas Hope's Gallery in Duchess St., and Caroline noted that “she is delightfully unaffected in her appreciation of pictures, and will not praise where she does not feel. The Francias in the National Gallery are more to her than all the rest” (Fox 221–22).

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SUBJECT / RECIPIENT INDICES

	Subject terms: FOX Caroline Francia Francesco Raibolini Hope Thomas JEWSBURY Geraldine Endsor > The Half-Sisters LAURENCE Samuel MARTINEAU Harriet
	Recipient terms: Forster John