GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Griff, [11 April 1850]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Griff, [11 April 1850]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Griff, [11 April 1850]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1850-04-11
Place
GRIFF
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Griff, [11 April 1850]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: April? 1850. Mostly published: Cross, 1, 251-252.
Griff | Thursday.
My dear Sara
Will you send the enclosed note to Mrs. C. Hennell? I am not quite sure about her direction, but I am anxious to thank her for her kindness in inviting me. Will you also send me an account of Mr. Chapman's prices for lodgers 897 -- and if you know anything of other boarding houses etc. in London will you tell me what you can? I am not asking you merely for the sake of giving you trouble. I am really anxious to know.
O the dismal weather and the dismal country and the dismal people. It was some envious demon that drove me across the Jura 898 to come and see people who don't want me. However I am determined to sell everything I possess except a portmanteau and carpet-bag and the necessary contents and be a stranger and a foreigner on the earth for ever more. But I must see you first -- that is a yearning I still have in spite of disappointments. My love to Mrs. Hennell.
Ever your faithful
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: April? 1850. Mostly published: Cross, 1, 251-252.
Griff | Thursday.
My dear Sara
Will you send the enclosed note to Mrs. C. Hennell? I am not quite sure about her direction, but I am anxious to thank her for her kindness in inviting me. Will you also send me an account of Mr. Chapman's prices for lodgers 897 -- and if you know anything of other boarding houses etc. in London will you tell me what you can? I am not asking you merely for the sake of giving you trouble. I am really anxious to know.
O the dismal weather and the dismal country and the dismal people. It was some envious demon that drove me across the Jura 898 to come and see people who don't want me. However I am determined to sell everything I possess except a portmanteau and carpet-bag and the necessary contents and be a stranger and a foreigner on the earth for ever more. But I must see you first -- that is a yearning I still have in spite of disappointments. My love to Mrs. Hennell.
Ever your faithful
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Griff, [11 April 1850], 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/93928