Excerpt from Letters From George Eliot to Elma Stuart, 1872-1880 It was about 1870 that my mother, who then lived in Brittany, fell in with the writings of George Eliot, which made such a deep impression upon her that she deter mined to make something with her own hands to present to George Eliot as a token of gratitude for the solace and comfort her writings had been to her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.