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SD2087.  George Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 264 (in part).

[Gorey]

[5 June 1857]

Dear Sara

The news from Virtue and Co. is very satisfactory, and I should think the edition will have …

We are reading ‘Aurora Leigh’ for the third time with more enjoyment than ever. I know no book that gives me a deeper sense of communion with a large as well as beautiful mind. It is in process of appearing in a third edition, and no wonder.

Publication: The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight (New Haven, Conn., 1954–78), 2, 341–342.

Manuscript: Yale University.

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