GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 6 February [1865]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 6 February [1865]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 6 February [1865]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1865-02-06
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 6 February [1865]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1865. Extracts published: Cross, II, 396-397.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
February 6.
Dear Sara
I suspect you have come to dislike letters, but until you say so, I must write now and then to gratify myself. I want to send my love, lest all the old messages should have lost their scent, like old lavender bags.
I wonder how poor Cara's patient 312 bears the winter with its rapid alternations from severity to mildness, and how Cara herself is under all vicissitudes.
Since I wrote to you last we have actually been to Paris! A little business was an excuse for getting a great deal of pleasure, 313 and I, for whom change of air and scene is always the best tonic, am much brightened by our wintry expedition, which ended just in time for us to escape the heavy fall of snow.
We are very happy, having almost recovered our old t'eate-'e0-t'eate, of which I am so selfishly fond, that I am beginning to feel it an heroic effort when I make up my mind to invite half a dozen visitors. But it is necessary to strive against this unsocial disposition, so we are going to have some open evenings.
There is great talk of a new periodical -- a fortnightly apparition, partly on the plan of the Revue des deux Mondes. Mr. Lewes has consented to become its editor if the preliminaries are settled so as to satisfy him.
Ecco! I have told you a little of our news, not daring to ask you anything about yourself, since you evidently don't want to tell me anything.
I did not trouble Mr. Bray with special thanks for the Phil[osophy] of Health, but I was not the less obliged.
I hope at least you are pretty well, dear Sara: not harassed with cough or any other winter maladies.
Ever yours affectionately
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1865. Extracts published: Cross, II, 396-397.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
February 6.
Dear Sara
I suspect you have come to dislike letters, but until you say so, I must write now and then to gratify myself. I want to send my love, lest all the old messages should have lost their scent, like old lavender bags.
I wonder how poor Cara's patient 312 bears the winter with its rapid alternations from severity to mildness, and how Cara herself is under all vicissitudes.
Since I wrote to you last we have actually been to Paris! A little business was an excuse for getting a great deal of pleasure, 313 and I, for whom change of air and scene is always the best tonic, am much brightened by our wintry expedition, which ended just in time for us to escape the heavy fall of snow.
We are very happy, having almost recovered our old t'eate-'e0-t'eate, of which I am so selfishly fond, that I am beginning to feel it an heroic effort when I make up my mind to invite half a dozen visitors. But it is necessary to strive against this unsocial disposition, so we are going to have some open evenings.
There is great talk of a new periodical -- a fortnightly apparition, partly on the plan of the Revue des deux Mondes. Mr. Lewes has consented to become its editor if the preliminaries are settled so as to satisfy him.
Ecco! I have told you a little of our news, not daring to ask you anything about yourself, since you evidently don't want to tell me anything.
I did not trouble Mr. Bray with special thanks for the Phil[osophy] of Health, but I was not the less obliged.
I hope at least you are pretty well, dear Sara: not harassed with cough or any other winter maladies.
Ever yours affectionately
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 6 February [1865], 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/94056