GHL to Henry Charlton Bastian, London, [24 April 1868]
Title
GHL to Henry Charlton Bastian, London, [24 April 1868]
Title
GHL to Henry Charlton Bastian, London, [24 April 1868]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Henry Charl
Date(s)
- 1868-04-24
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to Henry Charlton Bastian, London, [24 April 1868]
MS: Nuneaton Public Library.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Friday.
My dear Sir
I have read your admirable memoir 781 with as much interest as is compatible with comprehensive ignorance of the subject -- especially interested in the part relating to the nervous system. The paper came just in time to give me a quotation for my second article on Darwin. 782
I don't know how to explain it by any other hypothesis than stupidity but I have ignobly failed in my attempts to make a solution of your Damara 783 and Benzine. At first I thought the cause might be in the lost virtue of the Benzine I had which was very old so I bought some fresh, and yet after a fortnight's immersion the gum failed to melt.
Further I have weighed my bibromate of potasi and ammonia according to your suggestions -- and one per cent gives me a solution suspiciously dark -- much darker indeed than any I have ever thought of using. I was right was I not in weighing 20 grs to a four ounce bottle of water?
Forgive my bothering you with such small details.
Ever yours,
G. H. Lewes.
MS: Nuneaton Public Library.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Friday.
My dear Sir
I have read your admirable memoir 781 with as much interest as is compatible with comprehensive ignorance of the subject -- especially interested in the part relating to the nervous system. The paper came just in time to give me a quotation for my second article on Darwin. 782
I don't know how to explain it by any other hypothesis than stupidity but I have ignobly failed in my attempts to make a solution of your Damara 783 and Benzine. At first I thought the cause might be in the lost virtue of the Benzine I had which was very old so I bought some fresh, and yet after a fortnight's immersion the gum failed to melt.
Further I have weighed my bibromate of potasi and ammonia according to your suggestions -- and one per cent gives me a solution suspiciously dark -- much darker indeed than any I have ever thought of using. I was right was I not in weighing 20 grs to a four ounce bottle of water?
Forgive my bothering you with such small details.
Ever yours,
G. H. Lewes.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Henry Charlton Bastian, London, [24 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/94552