GE to John Blackwood, London, 29 April 1868
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 29 April 1868
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 29 April 1868
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1868-04-29
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, London, 29 April 1868
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 41.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
April 29. 68.
My dear Sir
I send you by today's post the Conclusion of the Poem in M.S., and the 18 sheets of Revise. The last book is brief, but I may truly use the old epigram -- that it would have taken less time to make it longer. It is a great bore that the name of my heroine is wrongly spelt in all the earlier sheets. It is a fresh proof of the fallibility of our impressions as to our own doings, that I would have confidently affirmed the name to be spelt Fedalma (as it ought to be) in my manuscript. Yet I suppose I should have affirmed falsely, for the i occurs in the slips constantly.
As I shall not see these paged sheets again, will you charitably assure me that the alterations are safely made? It is an odd concurrence of negations that none of the many friends we have seen since our return appear to have noticed the advertisement. I suppose only iteration like that of the Maravilla Cocoa (which I begin to want, from the importunateness of the "cross column") 746 will arrest this busy world.
Ever yours sincerely
M. E. Lewes.
I shall probably send a page or two of notes in two or three days.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 41.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
April 29. 68.
My dear Sir
I send you by today's post the Conclusion of the Poem in M.S., and the 18 sheets of Revise. The last book is brief, but I may truly use the old epigram -- that it would have taken less time to make it longer. It is a great bore that the name of my heroine is wrongly spelt in all the earlier sheets. It is a fresh proof of the fallibility of our impressions as to our own doings, that I would have confidently affirmed the name to be spelt Fedalma (as it ought to be) in my manuscript. Yet I suppose I should have affirmed falsely, for the i occurs in the slips constantly.
As I shall not see these paged sheets again, will you charitably assure me that the alterations are safely made? It is an odd concurrence of negations that none of the many friends we have seen since our return appear to have noticed the advertisement. I suppose only iteration like that of the Maravilla Cocoa (which I begin to want, from the importunateness of the "cross column") 746 will arrest this busy world.
Ever yours sincerely
M. E. Lewes.
I shall probably send a page or two of notes in two or three days.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, London, 29 April 1868, 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/92668