GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [London, 4 April 1853]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [London, 4 April 1853]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [London, 4 April 1853]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1853-04-04
Place
[London]
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [London, 4 April 1853]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: April 4. 1853. Hitherto unpublished.
Monday.
Dear Sara
Delighted with your letter this morning -- especially with your appreciation of the article on Bunsen. 305 The writer on Thackeray is Theodore Martin (Bon Gaultier), 306 the husband of Helen Faucit.
Pray read the article on Schopenhauer 307 next -- I think it one of the best.
Did I tell you that Mr. C. paid £20 for an article which we were obliged to throw away? One had need to have £700 to spend on every number as they say the Editor of the Edinburgh has. -- Bad news about the American Copyright this morning. People think it will not pass the Senate. 308
Mrs. Follen and Miss Montgomery have just called -- so have Dr. Samuel Brown and his wife -- he looking like a ghost, but very cordial notwithstanding my editorial crimes. 309 I have had headache for three days and "don't know which end I stan' on," as poor Mary Hammond used to say. I had a charming letter from Harriet Martineau this morning which I will send you by and bye.
Best love to Mr. Bray and Cara. Tell the former that I had not time to do more than glance down the columns of the Herald before H. S. took it away, and he was going the next day into Derbyshire. 310 I will tell him what to look at, if he has not yet found it out.
I am sadly dispirited by long headache -- and I dare not think of a holiday at Rosehill to refresh me, because I could not be in Warwickshire without going to my sister and I don't feel equal to that just now.
Ever your faithful
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: April 4. 1853. Hitherto unpublished.
Monday.
Dear Sara
Delighted with your letter this morning -- especially with your appreciation of the article on Bunsen. 305 The writer on Thackeray is Theodore Martin (Bon Gaultier), 306 the husband of Helen Faucit.
Pray read the article on Schopenhauer 307 next -- I think it one of the best.
Did I tell you that Mr. C. paid £20 for an article which we were obliged to throw away? One had need to have £700 to spend on every number as they say the Editor of the Edinburgh has. -- Bad news about the American Copyright this morning. People think it will not pass the Senate. 308
Mrs. Follen and Miss Montgomery have just called -- so have Dr. Samuel Brown and his wife -- he looking like a ghost, but very cordial notwithstanding my editorial crimes. 309 I have had headache for three days and "don't know which end I stan' on," as poor Mary Hammond used to say. I had a charming letter from Harriet Martineau this morning which I will send you by and bye.
Best love to Mr. Bray and Cara. Tell the former that I had not time to do more than glance down the columns of the Herald before H. S. took it away, and he was going the next day into Derbyshire. 310 I will tell him what to look at, if he has not yet found it out.
I am sadly dispirited by long headache -- and I dare not think of a holiday at Rosehill to refresh me, because I could not be in Warwickshire without going to my sister and I don't feel equal to that just now.
Ever your faithful
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [London, 4 April 1853], 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/93863