GE to John Blackwood, London, [18] March 1876
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, [18] March 1876
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, [18] March 1876
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1876-03-18
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, London, [18] March 1876
MS: National Library of Scotland. Published: Cross, III, 274-275.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
March 17. 424 76.
My dear Mr. Blackwood
We have just come in from Weybridge, but are going to take refuge there again on Monday for a few days more of fresh air and long breezy afternoon walks. Many thanks for your thoughtfulness in sending me the cheering account of sales. I find one -- also from Mr. Langford carrying the good news up to the last moment -- this morning being marked 25 of B. II.
Mr. Lewes has not heard any complaints of not understanding Gwendolen, but a strong partizanship for and against her. My correspondence about the misquotation of Tennyson 425 has quieted itself since the fifth letter. But Mr. Reeve,3 the Editor of the Edinburgh, has written me a very pretty note taxing me with having wanted insight into the technicalities of Newmarket, when I made Lush say [I will take odds.] Mr. Reeve judges that I should have written [I will lay odds.] 426 On the other hand, another expert contends that the case is one in which Lush would be more likely to say [I will take odds.] What do you think? -- I told Mr. Reeve that I had a dread of being righteously pelted with mistakes that would make a cairn above me -- a monument and a warning to people who write novels without being omniscient and infallible.
Mr. Lewes is agitating himself over a fifth reading of Revise, B. VI, and says he finds it more interesting than on any former reading. It is agreeable to have a home criticism of this kind. But I am deep in the Fourth Vol. and cannot any longer care about what is past and done for -- the passion of the moment is as much as I can live in.
We have had beautiful skies with our cold, and only now and then a snow shower. It is grievous to read of the sufferings elsewhere from floods.
Always yours sincerely
M. E. Lewes.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Published: Cross, III, 274-275.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
March 17. 424 76.
My dear Mr. Blackwood
We have just come in from Weybridge, but are going to take refuge there again on Monday for a few days more of fresh air and long breezy afternoon walks. Many thanks for your thoughtfulness in sending me the cheering account of sales. I find one -- also from Mr. Langford carrying the good news up to the last moment -- this morning being marked 25 of B. II.
Mr. Lewes has not heard any complaints of not understanding Gwendolen, but a strong partizanship for and against her. My correspondence about the misquotation of Tennyson 425 has quieted itself since the fifth letter. But Mr. Reeve,3 the Editor of the Edinburgh, has written me a very pretty note taxing me with having wanted insight into the technicalities of Newmarket, when I made Lush say [I will take odds.] Mr. Reeve judges that I should have written [I will lay odds.] 426 On the other hand, another expert contends that the case is one in which Lush would be more likely to say [I will take odds.] What do you think? -- I told Mr. Reeve that I had a dread of being righteously pelted with mistakes that would make a cairn above me -- a monument and a warning to people who write novels without being omniscient and infallible.
Mr. Lewes is agitating himself over a fifth reading of Revise, B. VI, and says he finds it more interesting than on any former reading. It is agreeable to have a home criticism of this kind. But I am deep in the Fourth Vol. and cannot any longer care about what is past and done for -- the passion of the moment is as much as I can live in.
We have had beautiful skies with our cold, and only now and then a snow shower. It is grievous to read of the sufferings elsewhere from floods.
Always yours sincerely
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, London, [18] March 1876, 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/92590