GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [20 December 1846]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [20 December 1846]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [20 December 1846]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1846-12-20
Place
FOLESHILL
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [20 December 1846]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Dec. 20, 1846. Extracts published: Cross, I, 153.
Dearest Sara,
I have been at Griff for the last week or I should have written before. I thank you most heartily for sending me Heliados 650 -- first, because I admire it greatly in itself, and secondly because it is a pretty proof that I am not dissociated from your most hallowed thoughts. As yet I have read it only once, but I promise myself to read it again and again. I shall not shew it to any one, for I hate "friendly criticism," as much for you as for myself -- but you have a better spirit than I, and when you come I will render Heliados up to you that others may have the pleasure of reading it.
I have nothing to say this morning -- my soul as barren as the desert; but I generally manage to sink some little well at church, by dint of making myself deaf and looking up at the roof and arches. Send me a scrap before you come.
Thine ever,
Meine.
Sunday Morning.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: Dec. 20, 1846. Extracts published: Cross, I, 153.
Dearest Sara,
I have been at Griff for the last week or I should have written before. I thank you most heartily for sending me Heliados 650 -- first, because I admire it greatly in itself, and secondly because it is a pretty proof that I am not dissociated from your most hallowed thoughts. As yet I have read it only once, but I promise myself to read it again and again. I shall not shew it to any one, for I hate "friendly criticism," as much for you as for myself -- but you have a better spirit than I, and when you come I will render Heliados up to you that others may have the pleasure of reading it.
I have nothing to say this morning -- my soul as barren as the desert; but I generally manage to sink some little well at church, by dint of making myself deaf and looking up at the roof and arches. Send me a scrap before you come.
Thine ever,
Meine.
Sunday Morning.
Signature
Meine.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, [20 December 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/93900