GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Tenby, 29 July 1856
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Tenby, 29 July 1856
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Tenby, 29 July 1856
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1856-07-29
Place
Tenby
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Tenby, 29 July 1856
MS: Yale. Extracts published: Cross, I, 412.
Bridge Street | Tenby | July 29. 56.
Dear Sara
Glad to hear, at last, some news of your Essay 733 -- hoping to hear more and better by and bye. I didn't like to think that your labour would be thrown away except so far as it must do good to yourself by clearing up your ideas. Not that your ideas were muddy, but the last degree of clearness can only come by writing.
Mr. Chapman wrote me word that he had seen you and that you were looking "exceedingly well" which was the best augury to me that you would enjoy your visit. 734 And you do seem to have made good use of your time.
I have been so vexed that I have written twice without remembering to thank Mr. Bray for the Herald containing his sparkling description of the Fancy Ball. Give my love to him and tell him I hope it will be a long, long time before he is a "decayed gentleman" in any other than a purely metaphorical and dramatic sense.
Mr. Pigott is with us just now, 735 and we are meditating a nocturnal visit to St. Catherine's caves with him. Our visit to Tenby has been very useful zoologically, but we are not otherwise greatly in love with the place. It seems tame and vulgar after Ilfracombe.
Mr. Lewes has written a very nice paper (in my opinion) describing our "Seaside Studies," which is to appear in the August "Blackwood." 736 I don't think you see Blackwood, or it might amuse you.
Do you care about Monckton Milne's autograph? I send it you for the chance.
We are to be at 8 Park Shot, Richmond, on August 8th.
You see, I had nothing to say. But the penny post justifies letters with nothing in them. Love to Cara
Yours
Marian.
MS: Yale. Extracts published: Cross, I, 412.
Bridge Street | Tenby | July 29. 56.
Dear Sara
Glad to hear, at last, some news of your Essay 733 -- hoping to hear more and better by and bye. I didn't like to think that your labour would be thrown away except so far as it must do good to yourself by clearing up your ideas. Not that your ideas were muddy, but the last degree of clearness can only come by writing.
Mr. Chapman wrote me word that he had seen you and that you were looking "exceedingly well" which was the best augury to me that you would enjoy your visit. 734 And you do seem to have made good use of your time.
I have been so vexed that I have written twice without remembering to thank Mr. Bray for the Herald containing his sparkling description of the Fancy Ball. Give my love to him and tell him I hope it will be a long, long time before he is a "decayed gentleman" in any other than a purely metaphorical and dramatic sense.
Mr. Pigott is with us just now, 735 and we are meditating a nocturnal visit to St. Catherine's caves with him. Our visit to Tenby has been very useful zoologically, but we are not otherwise greatly in love with the place. It seems tame and vulgar after Ilfracombe.
Mr. Lewes has written a very nice paper (in my opinion) describing our "Seaside Studies," which is to appear in the August "Blackwood." 736 I don't think you see Blackwood, or it might amuse you.
Do you care about Monckton Milne's autograph? I send it you for the chance.
We are to be at 8 Park Shot, Richmond, on August 8th.
You see, I had nothing to say. But the penny post justifies letters with nothing in them. Love to Cara
Yours
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Tenby, 29 July 1856, 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/94116