ABSTRACT
April 1878, Eliot thanked him for a basket of fl owers, adding, 'Yet I like to be loved in this faulty, frail (yet venerable) fl esh' (cf. Letters, Vol. IX, p. 226; noted by Bonnie J. Lisle in 1\rt: and Egoism in George Eliot's Poetry', Vtctorian Poetry, 22: 3 (Autumn 1984), p. 273).
