GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 4 March 1846]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 4 March 1846]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 4 March 1846]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1846-03-04
Place
[FOLESHILL]
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 4 March 1846]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 4 March 1846. Extracts published: Cross, I, 142.
Beloved Achates,
Will it not please thee to have some more manuscript in company with the requisite scrap of German, that, if necessary, it may be returned by Mr. Bray, and so the proceedings be quickened, or shall I wait until the 25th? 597 Send me word in the next extra-blatt attached to a proof.
The last 100 pages 598 have certainly been totally uninteresting to me, considered as matter for translation. Strauss has inevitably anticipated in the earlier part of his work all the principles and many of the details of his criticism, and he seems fagged himself. Mais courage! the neck of the difficulty is broken, and there is really very little to be done now. If one's head would but keep in anything like thinking and writing order! Mine has robbed me of half the last fortnight -- but I am a little better now and am saying to myself Frisch zu! The crucifixion and the resurrection are at all events better than the bursting asunder of Judas. 599 I am afraid I have not made this dull part of Strauss even as tolerable as it might be, for both body and mind have recoiled from it.
Anything heard of Strauss's preface yet? The 3d volume might begin with the Transfig[uratio]n 600 if the symmetry of the volumes be a preferable consideration to the proper division of the subject, and I think it is true the latter could not be observed in the two first volumes. Thank you dearest, for all your love and patience for me and with me. I have nothing on earth to complain of but subjective maladies. Father is pretty well and I have not a single excuse for discontent through the livelong day.
Thy
Pollian.
I was pleased on the whole with the two 'a7'a7 on the devils. 601
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 4 March 1846. Extracts published: Cross, I, 142.
Beloved Achates,
Will it not please thee to have some more manuscript in company with the requisite scrap of German, that, if necessary, it may be returned by Mr. Bray, and so the proceedings be quickened, or shall I wait until the 25th? 597 Send me word in the next extra-blatt attached to a proof.
The last 100 pages 598 have certainly been totally uninteresting to me, considered as matter for translation. Strauss has inevitably anticipated in the earlier part of his work all the principles and many of the details of his criticism, and he seems fagged himself. Mais courage! the neck of the difficulty is broken, and there is really very little to be done now. If one's head would but keep in anything like thinking and writing order! Mine has robbed me of half the last fortnight -- but I am a little better now and am saying to myself Frisch zu! The crucifixion and the resurrection are at all events better than the bursting asunder of Judas. 599 I am afraid I have not made this dull part of Strauss even as tolerable as it might be, for both body and mind have recoiled from it.
Anything heard of Strauss's preface yet? The 3d volume might begin with the Transfig[uratio]n 600 if the symmetry of the volumes be a preferable consideration to the proper division of the subject, and I think it is true the latter could not be observed in the two first volumes. Thank you dearest, for all your love and patience for me and with me. I have nothing on earth to complain of but subjective maladies. Father is pretty well and I have not a single excuse for discontent through the livelong day.
Thy
Pollian.
I was pleased on the whole with the two 'a7'a7 on the devils. 601
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, 4 March 1846], 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/93823