GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 28 August 1864
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 28 August 1864
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 28 August 1864
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1864-08-28
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 28 August 1864
MS: Yale. Published: Cross, II, 386-388.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
August 28. 64.
Dear Sara
I am distressed to find that I have let a week pass without writing in answer to your letter, which made me very glad when I got it. Remembering you just a minute ago I started up from Max M'fcller's new volume, 282 with which I was consoling myself under a sore throat, and rushed to the desk, that I might not risk any further delay.
It was just what I wanted to hear about you -- that you were having some change, and I think the freshness of the companionship must help other good influences. Not to speak of the "Apologia" which breathed much life into me when I read it. Pray mark that beautiful passage in which he thanks his friend Ambrose St. John. 283 I know hardly anything that delights me more than such evidences of sweet brotherly love being a reality in the world. I envy you your opportunity of seeing and hearing Newman, and should like to make an expedition to Birmingham for that sole end.
My trouble now is George's delicate health. He gets thinner and thinner. He is going to try what horseback will do, and I am looking forward to that with some hope.
Our boy's love-story runs smoothly and seems to promise nothing but good. His attraction to Hampstead gives George and me more of our dear old t'eate-'e0-t'eate, which we can't help being glad to recover.
Dear Cara and Mr. Bray! I wish they too had joy instead of sadness from the young life they have been caring for these many years. 284 When you write to Cara or see her, assure her that she is remembered in my most affectionate thoughts, and that I often bring her present experience before my mind -- more or less truly, for we can but blunder about each other, we poor mortals.
Write to me whenever you can, dear Sara. I should have answered immediately but for sickness, visitors, business etc.
Ever thine
Marian.
MS: Yale. Published: Cross, II, 386-388.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
August 28. 64.
Dear Sara
I am distressed to find that I have let a week pass without writing in answer to your letter, which made me very glad when I got it. Remembering you just a minute ago I started up from Max M'fcller's new volume, 282 with which I was consoling myself under a sore throat, and rushed to the desk, that I might not risk any further delay.
It was just what I wanted to hear about you -- that you were having some change, and I think the freshness of the companionship must help other good influences. Not to speak of the "Apologia" which breathed much life into me when I read it. Pray mark that beautiful passage in which he thanks his friend Ambrose St. John. 283 I know hardly anything that delights me more than such evidences of sweet brotherly love being a reality in the world. I envy you your opportunity of seeing and hearing Newman, and should like to make an expedition to Birmingham for that sole end.
My trouble now is George's delicate health. He gets thinner and thinner. He is going to try what horseback will do, and I am looking forward to that with some hope.
Our boy's love-story runs smoothly and seems to promise nothing but good. His attraction to Hampstead gives George and me more of our dear old t'eate-'e0-t'eate, which we can't help being glad to recover.
Dear Cara and Mr. Bray! I wish they too had joy instead of sadness from the young life they have been caring for these many years. 284 When you write to Cara or see her, assure her that she is remembered in my most affectionate thoughts, and that I often bring her present experience before my mind -- more or less truly, for we can but blunder about each other, we poor mortals.
Write to me whenever you can, dear Sara. I should have answered immediately but for sickness, visitors, business etc.
Ever thine
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 28 August 1864, 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/94042