GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Wandsworth, [13 October 1859]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Wandsworth, [13 October 1859]
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Wandsworth, [13 October 1859]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1859-10-13
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Wandsworth, [13 October 1859]
MS: Coventry City Libraries. Envelope: Miss Hennell | Ivy Cottage | Coventry. Postmark: LONDON s | 8 | OC 13 | 59. Hitherto unpublished.
Thursday.
Dear Sara
Your title is very good I think -- far better, "in Theology and Philosophy" than "Theological and Philosophical works." 347
"In," I think, is better than "on" -- more precise. Works on "ologies" do in strictness view the subjects as wholes -- whereas you refer chiefly to works which concern themselves with branches or departments of those "ologies" -- is it not so?
Very glad to have quite a definite prospect of seeing our friend. 348
Ever thine
Pollian.
Bertie, our third boy, writes, "I am learning about man: we have got a skeleton of a man. It is very nice and interesting."
MS: Coventry City Libraries. Envelope: Miss Hennell | Ivy Cottage | Coventry. Postmark: LONDON s | 8 | OC 13 | 59. Hitherto unpublished.
Thursday.
Dear Sara
Your title is very good I think -- far better, "in Theology and Philosophy" than "Theological and Philosophical works." 347
"In," I think, is better than "on" -- more precise. Works on "ologies" do in strictness view the subjects as wholes -- whereas you refer chiefly to works which concern themselves with branches or departments of those "ologies" -- is it not so?
Very glad to have quite a definite prospect of seeing our friend. 348
Ever thine
Pollian.
Bertie, our third boy, writes, "I am learning about man: we have got a skeleton of a man. It is very nice and interesting."
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, Wandsworth, [13 October 1859], 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/94121