GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, 27 [May 1845]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, 27 [May 1845]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, 27 [May 1845]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1845-05-27
Place
FOLESHILL
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, 27 [May 1845]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1845. Strauss Letters. Strauss pub. June 1846 (begun in Jan. 1845). Hitherto unpublished.
Foleshill | Tuesday | April 566 27th.
My dear Sara,
First let me deliver to you my budget of news from Rosehill. I had a most gracious reception this morning from Baby, and carried her to my great fatigue to pay our respects to the Cow. The Baby is quite well and not at all triste on account of the absence of Papa and Mamma, whom she invokes very lustily and shows no dismay that they do not come when she does call for them. 567 Hannah desires me to send word that the Cow has not calved and that Mr. and Miss Bray 568 spent Sunday at Rosehill, to Baby's great delight. The young lady's smiles were abundant this morning, interspersed however with frowns which I am afraid she is taught to think as amusing as the smiles. To me they are anything but interesting.
Thank you dear Sara for your last little note and the packet of papers. I think a great deal of Dr. B.'s translation is in the form of notes, but I have only read the first 'a7 and do not mean to read any more except in case of a difficulty. I find it teazes and disturbs me to read any other person's translation. It is like hearing another piano going just a note before you in the same tune you are playing. Nevertheless it is very advantageous to have references in a difficult passage, if such there be, and I am greatly obliged to Mrs. Hennell for letting me have the benefit of Dr. Brabant's loan.
And how are you? Enjoying the sea breezes I hope and able to walk as well as you did in our expedition to Monkstone Point at Tenby. 569 Do you not remember the praises that were lavished on "little Sairey" for mounting the rocks and pacing the sands so well? I would wish for one little walk with you, only when one is about wishing one may as well wish a good one and say a walk with you as often as I want a companion that I love and that does me good, body and soul. I am so very, very tired I can scarcely manage to write sense, for I have been making the most of a delightfully fair afternoon, and taking a long walk without my bonnet that the winds of heaven might visit my head. I hope it is as fair at Hastings. I guess you are all now seated round the tea-table, chatting very sociably, and poor I am going to my solitary one. Think of this and be grateful. I am fond of giving an exhortation now and then. Somebody write to me soon and tell me how you all are.
Your true
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1845. Strauss Letters. Strauss pub. June 1846 (begun in Jan. 1845). Hitherto unpublished.
Foleshill | Tuesday | April 566 27th.
My dear Sara,
First let me deliver to you my budget of news from Rosehill. I had a most gracious reception this morning from Baby, and carried her to my great fatigue to pay our respects to the Cow. The Baby is quite well and not at all triste on account of the absence of Papa and Mamma, whom she invokes very lustily and shows no dismay that they do not come when she does call for them. 567 Hannah desires me to send word that the Cow has not calved and that Mr. and Miss Bray 568 spent Sunday at Rosehill, to Baby's great delight. The young lady's smiles were abundant this morning, interspersed however with frowns which I am afraid she is taught to think as amusing as the smiles. To me they are anything but interesting.
Thank you dear Sara for your last little note and the packet of papers. I think a great deal of Dr. B.'s translation is in the form of notes, but I have only read the first 'a7 and do not mean to read any more except in case of a difficulty. I find it teazes and disturbs me to read any other person's translation. It is like hearing another piano going just a note before you in the same tune you are playing. Nevertheless it is very advantageous to have references in a difficult passage, if such there be, and I am greatly obliged to Mrs. Hennell for letting me have the benefit of Dr. Brabant's loan.
And how are you? Enjoying the sea breezes I hope and able to walk as well as you did in our expedition to Monkstone Point at Tenby. 569 Do you not remember the praises that were lavished on "little Sairey" for mounting the rocks and pacing the sands so well? I would wish for one little walk with you, only when one is about wishing one may as well wish a good one and say a walk with you as often as I want a companion that I love and that does me good, body and soul. I am so very, very tired I can scarcely manage to write sense, for I have been making the most of a delightfully fair afternoon, and taking a long walk without my bonnet that the winds of heaven might visit my head. I hope it is as fair at Hastings. I guess you are all now seated round the tea-table, chatting very sociably, and poor I am going to my solitary one. Think of this and be grateful. I am fond of giving an exhortation now and then. Somebody write to me soon and tell me how you all are.
Your true
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Foleshill, 27 [May 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/93919