GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](1)
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](1)
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](1)
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennel
Date(s)
- 1845
Place
[FOLESHILL]
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](1)
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Dec. Extract published: Cross, I, 135.
Dear Sara,
I have not the German of 'a7 81. I gave you from 'a7 64 to 84. I cannot therefore alter the passage which you have copied and which I have just this moment had the misfortune to drop into the pie. Nor can I decide about the note 12. I think I remember that the "uninterrupted agony of God" 580 refers to the words "My Father worketh hitherto etc.," and I fancy they are an addition of my own to make the reference clear, but of course I cannot judge anything about the matter without the German. Hellenistic 581 you may venture to put instead of Greek. The only meaning of Doppel-G'e4nger 582 is a double-sighted person, i.e. one who sees more than is visible to healthy organs. You must not alter that. Please to tell Mr. Hennell that [habits of thought] is not a translation of the word particularismus. This does not mean national idiosyncrasy, but is a word which characterizes that idiosyncrasy. If he decidedly objects to particularism ask him to be so good as substitute exclusiveness 583 though there is a shade of meaning in par[ticularis]m which even that does not express. It was because the word could only be translated by a circumlocution that I ventured to anglicise it.
I am very much hurried to-day, being obliged to go out, so that I have been obliged to answer you hastily. Be so good as to make yourself quite sure as to what German you have.
Thine,
Mary Ann.
Sunday.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Dec. Extract published: Cross, I, 135.
Dear Sara,
I have not the German of 'a7 81. I gave you from 'a7 64 to 84. I cannot therefore alter the passage which you have copied and which I have just this moment had the misfortune to drop into the pie. Nor can I decide about the note 12. I think I remember that the "uninterrupted agony of God" 580 refers to the words "My Father worketh hitherto etc.," and I fancy they are an addition of my own to make the reference clear, but of course I cannot judge anything about the matter without the German. Hellenistic 581 you may venture to put instead of Greek. The only meaning of Doppel-G'e4nger 582 is a double-sighted person, i.e. one who sees more than is visible to healthy organs. You must not alter that. Please to tell Mr. Hennell that [habits of thought] is not a translation of the word particularismus. This does not mean national idiosyncrasy, but is a word which characterizes that idiosyncrasy. If he decidedly objects to particularism ask him to be so good as substitute exclusiveness 583 though there is a shade of meaning in par[ticularis]m which even that does not express. It was because the word could only be translated by a circumlocution that I ventured to anglicise it.
I am very much hurried to-day, being obliged to go out, so that I have been obliged to answer you hastily. Be so good as to make yourself quite sure as to what German you have.
Thine,
Mary Ann.
Sunday.
Signature
Mary Ann.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](1), Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/93808