GHL to Alexander Macmillan, Witley, 26 August 1878
Title
GHL to Alexander Macmillan, Witley, 26 August 1878
Title
GHL to Alexander Macmillan, Witley, 26 August 1878
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Alexander Macmillan
Date(s)
- 1878-08-26
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GHL to Alexander Macmillan, Witley, 26 August 1878
Text: C. L. Graves, Life and Letters of Alexander Macmillan, Macmillan, 1910, p. 346.
The Heights, | Witley, | August 26, 1878.
I feel sure you will be glad to know the pleasure Mrs. Lewes has received from the first three instalments of your series of English classics. 132 She has read them aloud to me, and although Scott is to her an almost sacred name, she was so delighted with Hutton's largeness of feeling and sympathetic insight that, as she told a lady yesterday, "she was in a glow all the time she read it." Stephen's Johnson also gave her great pleasure. The Gibbon was of course a less attractive subject, but it is on the whole admirably done.
We have seen scarcely any one except Tennyson, who has read his new drama and some other poems to us. Not a trace of age in the old poet! The drama is full of fine dramatic power.
Text: C. L. Graves, Life and Letters of Alexander Macmillan, Macmillan, 1910, p. 346.
The Heights, | Witley, | August 26, 1878.
I feel sure you will be glad to know the pleasure Mrs. Lewes has received from the first three instalments of your series of English classics. 132 She has read them aloud to me, and although Scott is to her an almost sacred name, she was so delighted with Hutton's largeness of feeling and sympathetic insight that, as she told a lady yesterday, "she was in a glow all the time she read it." Stephen's Johnson also gave her great pleasure. The Gibbon was of course a less attractive subject, but it is on the whole admirably done.
We have seen scarcely any one except Tennyson, who has read his new drama and some other poems to us. Not a trace of age in the old poet! The drama is full of fine dramatic power.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Alexander Macmillan, Witley, 26 August 1878, 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/94373