Anthony Trollope to GHL, Waltham Cross, 13 August 1869
Title
Anthony Trollope to GHL, Waltham Cross, 13 August 1869
Title
Anthony Trollope to GHL, Waltham Cross, 13 August 1869
Sender
Anthony Trollope
Recipient
George Henry Lewes
Date(s)
- 1869-08-13
Place
Waltham Cross
Letter Content
Anthony Trollope to GHL, Waltham Cross, 13 August 1869
MS: Yale. Published: The Letters of Anthony Trollope, ed. B.A. Booth, 1951, p. 245.
Waltham House, | Waltham Cross.
August 13. 1869.
My dear Lewes.
Your news about your boy is very bad. I can only tell you how strongly I feel for you.
I do admire Horne 884 as a poet, -- that is I think highly of his Orion; -- but I do not know of what nature is his prose, or how the man who wrote Orion in 1839 (or thereabouts) would write now in 1869. Nor am I specially wedded to serial articles (to use an abominable word). Readers of magazines skip them when on dry subjects. Seebohm 885 did answer with you, -- but then they were very good. Bell's did not. 886 But they were very bad. If he has ought written and will send it to me I will read it; -- but I will not pledge myself.
And now I have a bit of news for you of the domestic kind which will surprise you. My eldest boy Harry has gone into partnership with Chapman. I pay 'a310000 -- (of course this is private) -- and he has a third of the business. I have had an immense deal of trouble in arranging it, and will tell you details when we meet. It is a fine business which has been awfully ill used by want of sufficient work and sufficient capital.
Do not let me intrude on you; -- but if you are disengaged and Thornie is not too ill, I will come up to you next week some evening. My wife is away, -- in Paris, -- or rather goes tonight. I go with her, but return. Address Athenaeum Club.
Yours always affectionately
A. T.
MS: Yale. Published: The Letters of Anthony Trollope, ed. B.A. Booth, 1951, p. 245.
Waltham House, | Waltham Cross.
August 13. 1869.
My dear Lewes.
Your news about your boy is very bad. I can only tell you how strongly I feel for you.
I do admire Horne 884 as a poet, -- that is I think highly of his Orion; -- but I do not know of what nature is his prose, or how the man who wrote Orion in 1839 (or thereabouts) would write now in 1869. Nor am I specially wedded to serial articles (to use an abominable word). Readers of magazines skip them when on dry subjects. Seebohm 885 did answer with you, -- but then they were very good. Bell's did not. 886 But they were very bad. If he has ought written and will send it to me I will read it; -- but I will not pledge myself.
And now I have a bit of news for you of the domestic kind which will surprise you. My eldest boy Harry has gone into partnership with Chapman. I pay 'a310000 -- (of course this is private) -- and he has a third of the business. I have had an immense deal of trouble in arranging it, and will tell you details when we meet. It is a fine business which has been awfully ill used by want of sufficient work and sufficient capital.
Do not let me intrude on you; -- but if you are disengaged and Thornie is not too ill, I will come up to you next week some evening. My wife is away, -- in Paris, -- or rather goes tonight. I go with her, but return. Address Athenaeum Club.
Yours always affectionately
A. T.
Signature
A. T.
Citation
Anthony Trollope, Anthony Trollope to GHL, Waltham Cross, 13 August 1869, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/91711