GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 20? May 1846]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 20? May 1846]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 20? May 1846]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1846-05-20
Place
[FOLESHILL]
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 20? May 1846]
MS: Yale. Mostly published: Cross, I, 143-144.
Dear Sara,
See what it is to have a person en rapport with you, that knows all your thoughts without the trouble of communication. I am especially grateful to thee for restoring the [therefore] to its right place. I was about to write to you to get you to remonstrate about this and the "dispassionate calmness," which I did not at all like but I thought you had corrected the prefaces, as the marks against the Latin looked like yours, so I determined to indulge my laissez-faire inclinations, for I hate stickling and debating unless it be for something really important. I agree with you that coldbloodedness would have been better than insensibility, 626 sed quod scriptum scriptum est.
I do really like reading our Strauss -- he is so klar und ideenvoll but I do not know one person who is likely to read the book through, do you? I have a woful pain in my eingeweide and can hardly comprehend the use of my oracular tongue. Next week and we will be merry and sad, wise and nonsensical, devout and wicked together!
MS: Yale. Mostly published: Cross, I, 143-144.
Dear Sara,
See what it is to have a person en rapport with you, that knows all your thoughts without the trouble of communication. I am especially grateful to thee for restoring the [therefore] to its right place. I was about to write to you to get you to remonstrate about this and the "dispassionate calmness," which I did not at all like but I thought you had corrected the prefaces, as the marks against the Latin looked like yours, so I determined to indulge my laissez-faire inclinations, for I hate stickling and debating unless it be for something really important. I agree with you that coldbloodedness would have been better than insensibility, 626 sed quod scriptum scriptum est.
I do really like reading our Strauss -- he is so klar und ideenvoll but I do not know one person who is likely to read the book through, do you? I have a woful pain in my eingeweide and can hardly comprehend the use of my oracular tongue. Next week and we will be merry and sad, wise and nonsensical, devout and wicked together!
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 20? May 1846], Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/93812