SD1991. George Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 256–257 (in part).

8 Park Shot [Richmond]

Monday [24 November 1856]

Dear Sara

I feel as if I had written very selfishly in my hasty notes to you and Cara the other day—all about …

You must read Aurora Leigh. I wish I had seen Mrs. Browning, as you have, for I love to have a distinct human being in my mind, as the medium of great and beautiful things.

Publication: The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight (New Haven, Conn., 1954–78), 2, 277–278.

Manuscript: Coventry City Libraries.

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