GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 22 March 1872
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 22 March 1872
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 22 March 1872
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1872-03-22
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 22 March 1872
MS: Yale. Extracts published: Cross, III, 157.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
March 22. 1872.
My dear Sara
You do not say that you are enjoying the change of solitude, but I hope it is so.
We are not in Italy, you perceive, and we shall not be able to go abroad -- only into the country -- until the autumn. Owing to my loss of two months in illness, and my infirm health ever since, I have not yet finished the writing of Middlemarch. This payment of wintry arrears 490 makes one prefer the comforts of a London home, but we are obliged to see more company than my health is equal to, and for this reason I dare say we shall soon migrate.
Today we have been to our last morning concert -- or "Saturday Pop" held on a Friday because of the University Boat-race tomorrow. These concerts are an easy pleasure which we are sorry to part with.
'abIt is cheering to read that you find any satisfaction in seeing Frank. 491 To us it had seemed a pitiable nightmare for his mother, to have him coming back again after so much pains had been taken to place him. I have been grieved for Mr. and Mrs. Call under this and their other trials, and my news about them has been too scanty.'bb
This is one of my bad weeks, owing probably to the change in the weather, and I am constantly struggling with hemicrania and intestinal malaise. Even writing this scrap of a note is the feather too much, and I must leave off. You have known too much of nervous weakness not to understand this. Always, dear Sara
Your loving
Pollian.
Your letter written today has reached me early in the evening. Mr. Norman Lockyer has been married a long while, 492 so that there must have been some confusion in Lord Leigh's speech.
MS: Yale. Extracts published: Cross, III, 157.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
March 22. 1872.
My dear Sara
You do not say that you are enjoying the change of solitude, but I hope it is so.
We are not in Italy, you perceive, and we shall not be able to go abroad -- only into the country -- until the autumn. Owing to my loss of two months in illness, and my infirm health ever since, I have not yet finished the writing of Middlemarch. This payment of wintry arrears 490 makes one prefer the comforts of a London home, but we are obliged to see more company than my health is equal to, and for this reason I dare say we shall soon migrate.
Today we have been to our last morning concert -- or "Saturday Pop" held on a Friday because of the University Boat-race tomorrow. These concerts are an easy pleasure which we are sorry to part with.
'abIt is cheering to read that you find any satisfaction in seeing Frank. 491 To us it had seemed a pitiable nightmare for his mother, to have him coming back again after so much pains had been taken to place him. I have been grieved for Mr. and Mrs. Call under this and their other trials, and my news about them has been too scanty.'bb
This is one of my bad weeks, owing probably to the change in the weather, and I am constantly struggling with hemicrania and intestinal malaise. Even writing this scrap of a note is the feather too much, and I must leave off. You have known too much of nervous weakness not to understand this. Always, dear Sara
Your loving
Pollian.
Your letter written today has reached me early in the evening. Mr. Norman Lockyer has been married a long while, 492 so that there must have been some confusion in Lord Leigh's speech.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 22 March 1872, 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/94023