GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5 June 1859]
Title
GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5 June 1859]
Title
GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5 June 1859]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1859-06-05
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5 June 1859]
MS: National Library of Scotland. Published: Times, 6 June 1859, p. 10e.
My dear Mr. Blackwood,
As it seems my statement that Mr. Liggins is not the author of "Scenes of Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede" is by certain persons flatly contradicted, I wish you would add the weight of your testimony to the truth of what I have stated.
It is the more painful to me that Mr. Liggins, or any one else, should be receiving charitable donations on the ground that your treatment of me has not been sufficiently liberal, because I, for my part, can only wish that every author had equal reason to be satisfied with his publisher.
If those benevolent persons who persist in attributing the authorship of the works in question to Mr. Liggins, will induce Mr. Liggins to write one chapter of a story, that chapter may possibly do what my denial has failed to do.
Yours most sincerely
George Eliot.
John Blackwood Esq.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Published: Times, 6 June 1859, p. 10e.
My dear Mr. Blackwood,
As it seems my statement that Mr. Liggins is not the author of "Scenes of Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede" is by certain persons flatly contradicted, I wish you would add the weight of your testimony to the truth of what I have stated.
It is the more painful to me that Mr. Liggins, or any one else, should be receiving charitable donations on the ground that your treatment of me has not been sufficiently liberal, because I, for my part, can only wish that every author had equal reason to be satisfied with his publisher.
If those benevolent persons who persist in attributing the authorship of the works in question to Mr. Liggins, will induce Mr. Liggins to write one chapter of a story, that chapter may possibly do what my denial has failed to do.
Yours most sincerely
George Eliot.
John Blackwood Esq.
Signature
George Eliot.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5 June 1859], 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/92733