GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, April? 1846](6)
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, April? 1846](6)
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, April? 1846](6)
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1846-04
Place
[FOLESHILL]
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, April? 1846](6)
MS: Yale. Mostly published: Cross, I, 139-140.
Health and greeting my Achates, in this veritable Spring month. I shall send you a parcel on Monday with 64 new pages of German for your intellectual maw. The next parcel, which will be the LAST! I shall send you on the Monday following and when you have read to the end, you may if you think it desirable send the whole to me.
Your dull ass does not mend his pace for beating: but he does mend it when he finds out that he is near his journey's end, and makes you wonder how he could pretend to find all the previous drawing so hard for him. I plead guilty to having set off in a regular scamper -- but be lenient and do not scold me if you find all sorts of carelessnesses in these last 100 pages. They are very interesting.
Not a moment more can your never-having-time-to-write-pretty-letters potter's vessel give.
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Mostly published: Cross, I, 139-140.
Health and greeting my Achates, in this veritable Spring month. I shall send you a parcel on Monday with 64 new pages of German for your intellectual maw. The next parcel, which will be the LAST! I shall send you on the Monday following and when you have read to the end, you may if you think it desirable send the whole to me.
Your dull ass does not mend his pace for beating: but he does mend it when he finds out that he is near his journey's end, and makes you wonder how he could pretend to find all the previous drawing so hard for him. I plead guilty to having set off in a regular scamper -- but be lenient and do not scold me if you find all sorts of carelessnesses in these last 100 pages. They are very interesting.
Not a moment more can your never-having-time-to-write-pretty-letters potter's vessel give.
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, April? 1846](6), 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/93834