GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Richmond, 27 March [1858]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Richmond, 27 March [1858]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Richmond, 27 March [1858]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1858-03-27
Place
Richmond
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Richmond, 27 March [1858]
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1858. erratum in Cara's letter 27 for 26. Extract published: Cross, II, 16.
March 27.
Dear Sara
I should so like to have your Journal, 1100 if you could rummage out the copy for me. I remember how good it was, I should like to read it to Mr. Lewes. He has heard your interesting letter, and you may be sure has felt all that becomes an author when he perceives that he has had an appreciatory reader. He doesn't mind about your keeping the passage from the old edition of the Biog[raphical] Hist[ory]. The modification you propose will prevent any one from supposing the old edition to be the final one.
I enclose a letter which will interest you. It is affecting to see how difficult a matter it often is for the men who would most profit by a book to purchase it or even get a reading of it, while stupid Jopling of Reading 1101 or elsewhere, thinks nothing of giving a guinea for a work which he will simply put on his shelves.
Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published "The World of Mind," is the Isaac Taylor, author of the Nat[ural] Hist[ory] of Enthusiasm. 1102 I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.
I think you have misunderstood about the "shamming dead." Mr. Lewes, I think, makes it clear enough, if you look again, that he thinks the phrase merely an untenable anthropomorphism. But no more, for I have pins and needles in my feet. I shall write from Munich.
Ever your affectionate
Marian.
MS: Yale. Endorsed: 1858. erratum in Cara's letter 27 for 26. Extract published: Cross, II, 16.
March 27.
Dear Sara
I should so like to have your Journal, 1100 if you could rummage out the copy for me. I remember how good it was, I should like to read it to Mr. Lewes. He has heard your interesting letter, and you may be sure has felt all that becomes an author when he perceives that he has had an appreciatory reader. He doesn't mind about your keeping the passage from the old edition of the Biog[raphical] Hist[ory]. The modification you propose will prevent any one from supposing the old edition to be the final one.
I enclose a letter which will interest you. It is affecting to see how difficult a matter it often is for the men who would most profit by a book to purchase it or even get a reading of it, while stupid Jopling of Reading 1101 or elsewhere, thinks nothing of giving a guinea for a work which he will simply put on his shelves.
Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published "The World of Mind," is the Isaac Taylor, author of the Nat[ural] Hist[ory] of Enthusiasm. 1102 I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.
I think you have misunderstood about the "shamming dead." Mr. Lewes, I think, makes it clear enough, if you look again, that he thinks the phrase merely an untenable anthropomorphism. But no more, for I have pins and needles in my feet. I shall write from Munich.
Ever your affectionate
Marian.
Signature
Marian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Richmond, 27 March [1858], 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/94102