GHL to Alexander Main, London, 13 March [1874]
Title
GHL to Alexander Main, London, 13 March [1874]
Title
GHL to Alexander Main, London, 13 March [1874]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Alexander Main
Date(s)
- 1874-03-13
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to Alexander Main, London, 13 March [1874]
Text: Main's copy owned by Mr. John R. Sprunt. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
March.
My dear Main
You are right in supposing I should be gratified by your sympathy. I have also been interested by your acuteness in respect of Clifford and Hutton. 57 The latter is really too feeble. My disappointment was great.
I was prepared for and wished for a strong opposition from him -- but I hoped it would be strong. The first edition was so nearly sold out that Tr'fcbner asked me to prepare a second when the elections suddenly intervened, and for three weeks not a copy was sold; since then the demand has revived again and we calculate on getting out no. 2 in May.
But what will interest you more is that Mrs. Lewes has at last consented to send a volume of poems to press -- including reprints of Jubal, Armgart, Agatha, and Lisa, besides some lovely new things of small length. She does not get strong however, and I look forward to our quiet retirement during the summer to set her up. I continue flourishing -- very hard at work getting my second volume recast and getting daily clearer in my laborious effort to determine the homologies of the Brain and Spinal Cord.
The day before yesterday Mrs. Lewes committed the rare excess of dining out -- a thing not done twice a year. But Lady Colvile seduced her with Joachim, Piatti, Strauss, and Agnes Zimmermann -- such music heard in private was not to be resisted; so we had a delightful dinner and a glorious evening. But headaches had to be the price all next day!
Ever yours
G. H. L.
Text: Main's copy owned by Mr. John R. Sprunt. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
March.
My dear Main
You are right in supposing I should be gratified by your sympathy. I have also been interested by your acuteness in respect of Clifford and Hutton. 57 The latter is really too feeble. My disappointment was great.
I was prepared for and wished for a strong opposition from him -- but I hoped it would be strong. The first edition was so nearly sold out that Tr'fcbner asked me to prepare a second when the elections suddenly intervened, and for three weeks not a copy was sold; since then the demand has revived again and we calculate on getting out no. 2 in May.
But what will interest you more is that Mrs. Lewes has at last consented to send a volume of poems to press -- including reprints of Jubal, Armgart, Agatha, and Lisa, besides some lovely new things of small length. She does not get strong however, and I look forward to our quiet retirement during the summer to set her up. I continue flourishing -- very hard at work getting my second volume recast and getting daily clearer in my laborious effort to determine the homologies of the Brain and Spinal Cord.
The day before yesterday Mrs. Lewes committed the rare excess of dining out -- a thing not done twice a year. But Lady Colvile seduced her with Joachim, Piatti, Strauss, and Agnes Zimmermann -- such music heard in private was not to be resisted; so we had a delightful dinner and a glorious evening. But headaches had to be the price all next day!
Ever yours
G. H. L.
Signature
G. H. L.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Alexander Main, London, 13 March [1874], 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/94407