GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, January 1848]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, January 1848]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, January 1848]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1848-01
Place
[FOLESHILL]
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, January 1848]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Feb. 1848. Extracts published: Cross, I, 169.
[The first page of this letter is missing.]
Your body changed into wavy grass indeed! As if it would be long before I should be turned into toad-stools -- or some other poisonous fungus.
I am reading G. Sand's Lettres d'un Voyageur with great delight, and hoping that they will some time do you as much good as they do me. In the meantime I think the short letter about Lelia 683 will interest you. It has a very deep meaning to my apprehension. You can send back the pages when you have duly digested them.
I am quite missing the pleasure I should have had in talking over Mr. Dawson with you. 684 I once said of you that yours was a sort of alkali nature which would detect the slightest acid of falsehood. You began to phiz-zz directly it approached you. I want you as a test. I now begin to see the necessity of the arrangement (a bad word) that love should determine people's fate while they are young. It is so impossible to admire -- s'enthousiasmer of an individual as one gets older.
I shall go to Rosehill to-morrow to know how it is you are sad -- if indeed the sadness have a special outward cause. Moreover I shall quarrel very violently with Mr. Bray for his horrid indifference to any feelings but what concern himself.
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Feb. 1848. Extracts published: Cross, I, 169.
[The first page of this letter is missing.]
Your body changed into wavy grass indeed! As if it would be long before I should be turned into toad-stools -- or some other poisonous fungus.
I am reading G. Sand's Lettres d'un Voyageur with great delight, and hoping that they will some time do you as much good as they do me. In the meantime I think the short letter about Lelia 683 will interest you. It has a very deep meaning to my apprehension. You can send back the pages when you have duly digested them.
I am quite missing the pleasure I should have had in talking over Mr. Dawson with you. 684 I once said of you that yours was a sort of alkali nature which would detect the slightest acid of falsehood. You began to phiz-zz directly it approached you. I want you as a test. I now begin to see the necessity of the arrangement (a bad word) that love should determine people's fate while they are young. It is so impossible to admire -- s'enthousiasmer of an individual as one gets older.
I shall go to Rosehill to-morrow to know how it is you are sad -- if indeed the sadness have a special outward cause. Moreover I shall quarrel very violently with Mr. Bray for his horrid indifference to any feelings but what concern himself.
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, January 1848], 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/93837