GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, East Sheen, 21 July [1855]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, East Sheen, 21 July [1855]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, East Sheen, 21 July [1855]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1855-07-21
Place
East Sheen
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, East Sheen, 21 July [1855]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1855. Mostly published: Cross, I, 383-384.
Clarence Row | East Sheen | July 21.
Dear Sara
It was surely you who wrote the notice of the Westminster in the Herald which we received this morning. I am very much pleased with your appreciation of Mr. Lewes's article. 616 Dr. Carpenter takes it very well, thinks that if he were to talk to the writer he should find there was not much difference in their views etc., and means to answer it in the Scottish Review. 617
You hardly do justice to Froude's article on Spinoza. 618 I don't at all agree with Froude's own views, but I think his account of Spinoza's doctrines admirable. We have looked in vain for Mr. Bray's leading article which he promised to send us.
Mr. Lewes is still sadly ailing -- tormented with tooth and face ache. This is a terrible trial to us poor scribblers, to whom health is money as well as all other things worth having. I have just been reading that Milton suffered from indigestion and flatulence 619 -- quite an affecting fact to me. I send you a letter which I have had from Barbara Smith. I think you will like to see such a manifestation of her strong noble nature. Burn it when you have read it.
Ever yours
Marian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1855. Mostly published: Cross, I, 383-384.
Clarence Row | East Sheen | July 21.
Dear Sara
It was surely you who wrote the notice of the Westminster in the Herald which we received this morning. I am very much pleased with your appreciation of Mr. Lewes's article. 616 Dr. Carpenter takes it very well, thinks that if he were to talk to the writer he should find there was not much difference in their views etc., and means to answer it in the Scottish Review. 617
You hardly do justice to Froude's article on Spinoza. 618 I don't at all agree with Froude's own views, but I think his account of Spinoza's doctrines admirable. We have looked in vain for Mr. Bray's leading article which he promised to send us.
Mr. Lewes is still sadly ailing -- tormented with tooth and face ache. This is a terrible trial to us poor scribblers, to whom health is money as well as all other things worth having. I have just been reading that Milton suffered from indigestion and flatulence 619 -- quite an affecting fact to me. I send you a letter which I have had from Barbara Smith. I think you will like to see such a manifestation of her strong noble nature. Burn it when you have read it.
Ever yours
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, East Sheen, 21 July [1855], 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/93889