GE to John Blackwood, London, 25 February 1873
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 25 February 1873
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 25 February 1873
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1873-02-25
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, London, 25 February 1873
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 194-195.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
February 25. 73
My dear Mr. Blackwood
I am much pleased with the colour and the lettering of the guinea edition, and the thinner paper makes it delightfully handy. Let us hope that some people still want to read it, since a friend of ours in one short railway bit to and fro saw two persons reading the paper-covered numbers. Now is the moment when a notice in the Times might possibly give a perceptible impulse. By the way, I should like to ask Mr. Simpson -- who, I imagine, directs all the advertising -- whether the non-use of the "Publishers' Column" in the Times is systematic, i.e. for well-weighed reasons? I understand thoroughly the futility of advertisements (of books) in other columns of the Times, but this front row of reserved places does seem particularly noticeable -- even to me, who never make a practice of reading advertisements, and I have observed that most books of any mark make an appearance or two there. But there may be good reasons of which I know nothing.
Kohn, of Berlin, has written to ask us to allow him to reprint the Spanish Gypsy for £50, and we have consented. 732 Some Dresdener, who has translated poems of Tennyson's, asked leave to translate the S. G. in 1870, but I have not heard of his translation appearing.
The rain this morning is welcome in exchange for the snow, which in London has none of its country charms left to it. Among my books which comfort me in the absence of sunshine, is a copy of the "Handy Royal Atlas" which Mr. Lewes has got for me. The glorious Index is all the more appreciable by me, because I am tormented with German historical atlases which have no Index and are covered with names swarming like ants on every map.
The Catalogue coming in the other day renewed my longing for the cheap edition of Lockhart's Novels, 733 though I have some compunction in teazing your busy mind with my small begging. I should like to take them into the country, where our days are always longer for reading.
I have a love for Lockhart because of Scott's Life, which seems to me a perfect biography. How different from another we know of! 734
Always truly yours
M. E. Lewes.
John Blackwood Esq.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 194-195.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
February 25. 73
My dear Mr. Blackwood
I am much pleased with the colour and the lettering of the guinea edition, and the thinner paper makes it delightfully handy. Let us hope that some people still want to read it, since a friend of ours in one short railway bit to and fro saw two persons reading the paper-covered numbers. Now is the moment when a notice in the Times might possibly give a perceptible impulse. By the way, I should like to ask Mr. Simpson -- who, I imagine, directs all the advertising -- whether the non-use of the "Publishers' Column" in the Times is systematic, i.e. for well-weighed reasons? I understand thoroughly the futility of advertisements (of books) in other columns of the Times, but this front row of reserved places does seem particularly noticeable -- even to me, who never make a practice of reading advertisements, and I have observed that most books of any mark make an appearance or two there. But there may be good reasons of which I know nothing.
Kohn, of Berlin, has written to ask us to allow him to reprint the Spanish Gypsy for £50, and we have consented. 732 Some Dresdener, who has translated poems of Tennyson's, asked leave to translate the S. G. in 1870, but I have not heard of his translation appearing.
The rain this morning is welcome in exchange for the snow, which in London has none of its country charms left to it. Among my books which comfort me in the absence of sunshine, is a copy of the "Handy Royal Atlas" which Mr. Lewes has got for me. The glorious Index is all the more appreciable by me, because I am tormented with German historical atlases which have no Index and are covered with names swarming like ants on every map.
The Catalogue coming in the other day renewed my longing for the cheap edition of Lockhart's Novels, 733 though I have some compunction in teazing your busy mind with my small begging. I should like to take them into the country, where our days are always longer for reading.
I have a love for Lockhart because of Scott's Life, which seems to me a perfect biography. How different from another we know of! 734
Always truly yours
M. E. Lewes.
John Blackwood Esq.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, London, 25 February 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/92655