GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [29 April 1854]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [29 April 1854]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [29 April 1854]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1854-04-29
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [29 April 1854]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: April 30. Extract published: George Eliot and John Chapman, p. 81.
Cambridge St. | Saturday.
Dear Sara
I have yet another service to beg of you -- a very great one. It is to read as quickly as you can the portion of the appendix which I send you by today's post, and to tell me how far it will be necessary to modify it for the Eng[lish] public. I have written it very rapidly and have translated it quite literally so you have the raw Feuerbach -- not any of my cooking. I am so far removed from the popular feeling on the subject of which it treats that I cannot trust my own judgment. With the ideas of Feuerbach I everywhere agree, but of course I should, of myself, alter the phraseology considerably. Before I do this however, I want you to tell me what I must leave out. Mind, I want to keep in as much as possible. 462 Send it me back as soon as possible, and don't think of the style but only of the matter and the crudity of expressions. In great haste,
Your ever grateful
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: April 30. Extract published: George Eliot and John Chapman, p. 81.
Cambridge St. | Saturday.
Dear Sara
I have yet another service to beg of you -- a very great one. It is to read as quickly as you can the portion of the appendix which I send you by today's post, and to tell me how far it will be necessary to modify it for the Eng[lish] public. I have written it very rapidly and have translated it quite literally so you have the raw Feuerbach -- not any of my cooking. I am so far removed from the popular feeling on the subject of which it treats that I cannot trust my own judgment. With the ideas of Feuerbach I everywhere agree, but of course I should, of myself, alter the phraseology considerably. Before I do this however, I want you to tell me what I must leave out. Mind, I want to keep in as much as possible. 462 Send it me back as soon as possible, and don't think of the style but only of the matter and the crudity of expressions. In great haste,
Your ever grateful
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [29 April 1854], 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/93965