GE to John Blackwood, London, 24 August 1873
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 24 August 1873
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 24 August 1873
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1873-08-24
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, London, 24 August 1873
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 209-210.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
August 24. 1873.
Dear Mr. Blackwood
On our return yesterday from our nine weeks' absence, I found a letter from Mr. Main, in which he shows some anxiety that I should write you the [formal sanction] you justly require before admitting extracts from [Middlemarch] in the new edition of the [Sayings.] 833
I have no objection, if you see none, to such an enlargement of the volume, and I satisfy our good Mr. Main's promptitude by writing the needed consent at once, though you may be far away taking the waters of Carlsbad or other fountain of health. Unless, as I hope, your system has become sufficiently fortified to allow you the pleasanter alternative of remaining undisturbed at Strathtyrum.
We used our plan of travel as "a good thing to wander from," and went to no single place (except Fontainebleau) to which we had beforehand projected going. Our most fortunate wandering was to the Vosges -- to Plombi'e8res and Luxeuil -- which have made us in love with the mode of life at the [Eaux] of France, as greatly preferable to the ways of the German [Bad.]
We happened to be at Nancy just as the Germans were beginning to quit it, and we saw good store of tricolors and paper lanterns ready in the shop windows for those who wished to buy the signs of national rejoicing. I can imagine that, as a Prussian lady told us, the Germans themselves were not at all rejoiced to leave that pretty town for "les bords de la Spree," where in French dialogue, all Germans are supposed to live.
If you are at Strathtyrum, I know that you will send me some news before long. We shall remain in town about ten days and then go to "Blackbrook, near Bromley" a quiet spot which will be open to us on the 1st. It is about ten minutes' walk from the Chiselhurst station, away from all [Villas] and sheltered by great trees.
Yours always truly
M. E. Lewes.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 209-210.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
August 24. 1873.
Dear Mr. Blackwood
On our return yesterday from our nine weeks' absence, I found a letter from Mr. Main, in which he shows some anxiety that I should write you the [formal sanction] you justly require before admitting extracts from [Middlemarch] in the new edition of the [Sayings.] 833
I have no objection, if you see none, to such an enlargement of the volume, and I satisfy our good Mr. Main's promptitude by writing the needed consent at once, though you may be far away taking the waters of Carlsbad or other fountain of health. Unless, as I hope, your system has become sufficiently fortified to allow you the pleasanter alternative of remaining undisturbed at Strathtyrum.
We used our plan of travel as "a good thing to wander from," and went to no single place (except Fontainebleau) to which we had beforehand projected going. Our most fortunate wandering was to the Vosges -- to Plombi'e8res and Luxeuil -- which have made us in love with the mode of life at the [Eaux] of France, as greatly preferable to the ways of the German [Bad.]
We happened to be at Nancy just as the Germans were beginning to quit it, and we saw good store of tricolors and paper lanterns ready in the shop windows for those who wished to buy the signs of national rejoicing. I can imagine that, as a Prussian lady told us, the Germans themselves were not at all rejoiced to leave that pretty town for "les bords de la Spree," where in French dialogue, all Germans are supposed to live.
If you are at Strathtyrum, I know that you will send me some news before long. We shall remain in town about ten days and then go to "Blackbrook, near Bromley" a quiet spot which will be open to us on the 1st. It is about ten minutes' walk from the Chiselhurst station, away from all [Villas] and sheltered by great trees.
Yours always truly
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, London, 24 August 1873, 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/92651