George Eliot manuscript material : 7 items, 1862-ca. 1875

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George Eliot manuscript material : 7 items, 1862-ca. 1875

· Holograph notebook, "Hebraic studies & miscellaneous notes" : ca. 1875 : (MISC 0707) : 124 p. Shelved with bound manuscript materials. · Holograph notebook, "Miscellaneous Quotes" : no date : (MISC 0708) : 109 p. ; entries divided under various headings : p. 2, "Miscellaneous Quotations" ; p. 67, "Browneisms" ; p. 84, "Power of simple words" ; p. 86, "Fine pauses" ; p. 91, "From Walt Whitman" ; p. 98, "Rabbinical sayings" ; p. 104, "Fables." Shelved with bound manuscript materials. · Holograph notebook, "Präparation zum Pentateuch" : no date : (MISC 0709) : 4 p. within larger notebook (most pages blank). One holograph note is laid in, relating to Hebrew translations. Also laid in is a copy of a German (with Hebrew) edition of part of the Pentateuch, Genesis - Exodus 13:14 (Verlag von Wilhelm Violet, 1847). Shelved with bound manuscript materials. · Holograph notebook, "Oriental Memoranda, arranged alphabetically" : no date : (MISC 0710) : 41 p. within larger notebook (many pages blank). Newspaper clippings are mounted on the endpapers, and some are laid in. Shelved with bound manuscript materials. · Holograph notebook, "Miscellaneous Notes" : no date : (MISC 0711) : 114 p. ; within purple morocco clamshell box. Shelved with bound manuscript materials. · To Sara Hennell, friend and religious writer : 1 autograph letter signed "Pollian" : 14 Jul 1862 : (MISC 1299) : referring to Romola, and Mr. Leighton's illustrations. · To George Simpson, of Blackwood's, her publisher : 1 autograph letter signed "M Lewes" : 12 Mar 1874 : (MISC 3618) : on her desires for the production of Jubal and Other Poems.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6945330

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Hennell, Sara S.

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Eliot, George, 1819-1880

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Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, George Eliot was the daughter of a land agent who managed estates in the rural midlands, a formative experience that gave her an insight into country society that later greatly influenced and enriched her first works of fiction. At different times of her life, she also spelled her name as Mary Anne, Marian, and Marianne, adopting the pen-name of Eliot only after her first work of fiction was published in 1857. Eliot was brought up in a narrow...