GHL to John Blackwood, Earlswood Common, 23 June 1874
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, Earlswood Common, 23 June 1874
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, Earlswood Common, 23 June 1874
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1874-06-23
Place
Earlswood Common
Letter Content
GHL to John Blackwood, Earlswood Common, 23 June 1874
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Cottage | Earlswood Common | Red Hill | Sunday.
My dear Blackwood
I see you have brought out Flint's Philosophy of History 112 -- if the book is yours I should very much like to have a copy.
We are greatly enjoying our sweet monotony of existence -- never seeing a soul -- but working like negros. Mrs. Lewes is fairly now at her new novel, and that means [going on.] She is continually receiving some gratifying testimony about the poems. How are they selling? By the way what strange fancy possesses Langford to advertize Middlemarch separately as if it were a new book and relegate the poems to the list of old ones? Surely this is not the way to [catch the public eye]? --
The weather has been horrid of late -- cold winds and rain -- but the country is so lovely here that we have resolved if possible to find a retreat for our old age in this region.
I wish you could get some one of your metaphysical contributors to attack my Problems. A good rattling attack would call the attention of metaphysicians far more than a eulogy, and no one seems disposed to gratify me in that way.
Ever yours truly
G. H. L.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Cottage | Earlswood Common | Red Hill | Sunday.
My dear Blackwood
I see you have brought out Flint's Philosophy of History 112 -- if the book is yours I should very much like to have a copy.
We are greatly enjoying our sweet monotony of existence -- never seeing a soul -- but working like negros. Mrs. Lewes is fairly now at her new novel, and that means [going on.] She is continually receiving some gratifying testimony about the poems. How are they selling? By the way what strange fancy possesses Langford to advertize Middlemarch separately as if it were a new book and relegate the poems to the list of old ones? Surely this is not the way to [catch the public eye]? --
The weather has been horrid of late -- cold winds and rain -- but the country is so lovely here that we have resolved if possible to find a retreat for our old age in this region.
I wish you could get some one of your metaphysical contributors to attack my Problems. A good rattling attack would call the attention of metaphysicians far more than a eulogy, and no one seems disposed to gratify me in that way.
Ever yours truly
G. H. L.
Signature
G. H. L.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to John Blackwood, Earlswood Common, 23 June 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/94597