GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 21 May 1859
Title
GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 21 May 1859
Title
GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 21 May 1859
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1859-05-21
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 21 May 1859
Text: Cross, II, 109-110.
Thank you: first, for acting with that fine integrity which makes part of my faith in you; secondly, for the material sign of that integrity. I don't know which of those two things I care for most -- that people should act nobly towards me, or that I should get honest money. I certainly care a great deal for the money, as I suppose all anxious minds do that love independence and have been brought up to think debt and begging the two deepest dishonours short of crime.
I look forward with quite eager expectation to seeing you -- we have so much to say. Pray give us the first day at your command. The excursion, as you may imagine, is not ardently longed for in this weather, but when "merry May" is quite gone, we may surely hope for some sunshine; and then I have a pet project of rambling along by the banks of a river, not without artistic as well as hygienic purposes.
Pray bring me all the Liggins Correspondence. I have an amusing letter or two to show you, -- one from a gentleman who has sent me his works; happily the only instance of the kind. For as Charles Lamb complains, it is always the people whose books don't sell who are anxious to send them to one, with "foolish autographs" inside. 137
Text: Cross, II, 109-110.
Thank you: first, for acting with that fine integrity which makes part of my faith in you; secondly, for the material sign of that integrity. I don't know which of those two things I care for most -- that people should act nobly towards me, or that I should get honest money. I certainly care a great deal for the money, as I suppose all anxious minds do that love independence and have been brought up to think debt and begging the two deepest dishonours short of crime.
I look forward with quite eager expectation to seeing you -- we have so much to say. Pray give us the first day at your command. The excursion, as you may imagine, is not ardently longed for in this weather, but when "merry May" is quite gone, we may surely hope for some sunshine; and then I have a pet project of rambling along by the banks of a river, not without artistic as well as hygienic purposes.
Pray bring me all the Liggins Correspondence. I have an amusing letter or two to show you, -- one from a gentleman who has sent me his works; happily the only instance of the kind. For as Charles Lamb complains, it is always the people whose books don't sell who are anxious to send them to one, with "foolish autographs" inside. 137
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 21 May 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/92740