GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 31 December 1845]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 31 December 1845]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 31 December 1845]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1845-12-31
Place
[FOLESHILL]
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 31 December 1845]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Jan. 1846. Published: Cross, I, 137-138.
Dear Sara,
I do pity you with the drunken Christmas workmen, keeping you in this uncomfortable interregnum. 590 But do not go distraught -- the spring will really come and the birds -- many having had to fly across the Atlantic which is farther than you have to go to establish yourself.
I could easily give the meaning of the Hebrew word in question, as I know where to borrow a lexicon, 591 but observe, there are two Hebrew words untranslated in this proof. I do not think it well to give the English in one place and not in another where there is no reason for such distinction -- and there is not here, for the note in this proof sounds just as fee-fo-fum-ish as the other, without any translation. I could not alter the troublesome, because it is the nearest usable adjective for schwierig, which stands in the German. I am tired of inevitable importants and cannot bear to put them when they do not represent the German.
I have an invitation to refuse -- just come.
Thine in haste
Mary Ann.
Wednesday.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Jan. 1846. Published: Cross, I, 137-138.
Dear Sara,
I do pity you with the drunken Christmas workmen, keeping you in this uncomfortable interregnum. 590 But do not go distraught -- the spring will really come and the birds -- many having had to fly across the Atlantic which is farther than you have to go to establish yourself.
I could easily give the meaning of the Hebrew word in question, as I know where to borrow a lexicon, 591 but observe, there are two Hebrew words untranslated in this proof. I do not think it well to give the English in one place and not in another where there is no reason for such distinction -- and there is not here, for the note in this proof sounds just as fee-fo-fum-ish as the other, without any translation. I could not alter the troublesome, because it is the nearest usable adjective for schwierig, which stands in the German. I am tired of inevitable importants and cannot bear to put them when they do not represent the German.
I have an invitation to refuse -- just come.
Thine in haste
Mary Ann.
Wednesday.
Signature
Mary Ann.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 31 December 1845], 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/93821