GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [August? 1845]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [August? 1845]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [August? 1845]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1845-08
Place
FOLESHILL
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [August? 1845]
MS: Yale. Extracts published: Cross, 1, 133-134.
Foleshill | Friday Evening.
My dear Sara,
On looking over your note again this evening I see you ask me to send the German of 'a7 34 to 43 immediately. I am very sorry I was so careless as not to observe this yesterday and send them to you then. I have only a few minutes now to enclose them and tell you how glad I was to have your thoughts both in poetry and prose. It was very kind of you to send me those pretty lines -- I shall treasure them among my external relics of you but the most precious remembrances are those I carry in my memory and my heart. I am not ashamed to confess that I should like to be idle with you for a little while more than anything else I can think of just now. But alas! leathery brain must work at leathery Strauss for a short time before my butterfly days come. O how I shall spread my wings then and caress you with my antennae!
Anent the Greek my dear Sara -- It would produce very dreadful cold perspirations indeed in me if there were anything amounting to a serious error but this I trust there will not be. You must really expect me if not to sleep and snore aliquando at least to nod in the course of some thousand pages.
I shall send you a muddy draught and bolus of miracles by Mr. Bray. This part of the work pleases me the least and is the weakest. You will very likely be able to read all in order before the Conclusion, but it signifies nothing to your appreciation of that. I should like you to be deliberate over the Schlussabhandlung. 577 It is the only part on which I have bestowed much pains, for the difficulty was piquing, not piquant. I am afraid you will pull a wry face at the bad writing, but indeed you must be merciful, only if there is any too bad I bear a conscience. Getting dark.
Your affectionate
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Extracts published: Cross, 1, 133-134.
Foleshill | Friday Evening.
My dear Sara,
On looking over your note again this evening I see you ask me to send the German of 'a7 34 to 43 immediately. I am very sorry I was so careless as not to observe this yesterday and send them to you then. I have only a few minutes now to enclose them and tell you how glad I was to have your thoughts both in poetry and prose. It was very kind of you to send me those pretty lines -- I shall treasure them among my external relics of you but the most precious remembrances are those I carry in my memory and my heart. I am not ashamed to confess that I should like to be idle with you for a little while more than anything else I can think of just now. But alas! leathery brain must work at leathery Strauss for a short time before my butterfly days come. O how I shall spread my wings then and caress you with my antennae!
Anent the Greek my dear Sara -- It would produce very dreadful cold perspirations indeed in me if there were anything amounting to a serious error but this I trust there will not be. You must really expect me if not to sleep and snore aliquando at least to nod in the course of some thousand pages.
I shall send you a muddy draught and bolus of miracles by Mr. Bray. This part of the work pleases me the least and is the weakest. You will very likely be able to read all in order before the Conclusion, but it signifies nothing to your appreciation of that. I should like you to be deliberate over the Schlussabhandlung. 577 It is the only part on which I have bestowed much pains, for the difficulty was piquing, not piquant. I am afraid you will pull a wry face at the bad writing, but indeed you must be merciful, only if there is any too bad I bear a conscience. Getting dark.
Your affectionate
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [August? 1845], 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/93909