GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](3)
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](3)
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](3)
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1845
Place
[FOLESHILL]
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](3)
MS: Yale. Extract published: Cross, I, 134.
My dear Sara,
As I have been obliged to lose two days this week, and shall have to give a third to my teeth I do not think it worth while to wait for the week's harvest, so I send you last week's, with the part you returned by Mrs. Bray's parcel. I am glad you sent it. Thank you for all little notes thrust in between the proofs. They are very refreshing in this valley of Baca. 585 I am never pained when I think Strauss right -- but in many cases I think him wrong, as every man must be in working out into detail an idea which has general truth, but is only one element in a perfect theory, not a perfect theory in itself. I have not another minute.
Thine.
MS: Yale. Extract published: Cross, I, 134.
My dear Sara,
As I have been obliged to lose two days this week, and shall have to give a third to my teeth I do not think it worth while to wait for the week's harvest, so I send you last week's, with the part you returned by Mrs. Bray's parcel. I am glad you sent it. Thank you for all little notes thrust in between the proofs. They are very refreshing in this valley of Baca. 585 I am never pained when I think Strauss right -- but in many cases I think him wrong, as every man must be in working out into detail an idea which has general truth, but is only one element in a perfect theory, not a perfect theory in itself. I have not another minute.
Thine.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 1845](3), 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/93810