GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [March 1854]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [March 1854]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [March 1854]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1854-03
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [March 1854]
MS: Coventry City Libraries. Hitherto unpublished.
Dear Sara
I fear you will be very weary of your task, but I must entreat you to continue it. As we shall begin to print soon, I shall be glad if you will return the sheets I now send by post in 6d. parcels as you get done with them. I forgot to tell you that I have agreed with Mr. C. to have no variation of type beyond occasional italics, so you need not trouble yourself about any underlining.
To save you from fidgeting about the s. and p. in the references I must tell you that Feuerbach habitually puts p. (for pagina) in his references to German works, so I leave it as he puts it. If it will not be much more trouble to you, please to put the punctuation, additional capitals, and any thing about which you are quite sure, in ink. Every stroke of the pen you can save me is so much charity.
I send you the original of the Preface to amuse you with the long-winded sentence pp. ix and x. I feel your reading of Feuerbach as a real act of friendship to me -- but it is something still better than that -- a contribution towards the perfecting of a mental product, to be reckoned with improving crops of wheat and all other real human work.
Pollian.
Feuerbach's sentences are too uniformly short. Would you weave them together at all, or leave the style intact?
MS: Coventry City Libraries. Hitherto unpublished.
Dear Sara
I fear you will be very weary of your task, but I must entreat you to continue it. As we shall begin to print soon, I shall be glad if you will return the sheets I now send by post in 6d. parcels as you get done with them. I forgot to tell you that I have agreed with Mr. C. to have no variation of type beyond occasional italics, so you need not trouble yourself about any underlining.
To save you from fidgeting about the s. and p. in the references I must tell you that Feuerbach habitually puts p. (for pagina) in his references to German works, so I leave it as he puts it. If it will not be much more trouble to you, please to put the punctuation, additional capitals, and any thing about which you are quite sure, in ink. Every stroke of the pen you can save me is so much charity.
I send you the original of the Preface to amuse you with the long-winded sentence pp. ix and x. I feel your reading of Feuerbach as a real act of friendship to me -- but it is something still better than that -- a contribution towards the perfecting of a mental product, to be reckoned with improving crops of wheat and all other real human work.
Pollian.
Feuerbach's sentences are too uniformly short. Would you weave them together at all, or leave the style intact?
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, [March 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/93978