GHL to John Blackwood, London, [17 January 1874]
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [17 January 1874]
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [17 January 1874]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1874-01-17
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [17 January 1874]
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Saturday.
My dear Blackwood
Your note with the checque for £807.11 arrived this morning and gave a pleasant filip to our appetites at breakfast. The sale of the Spanish Gypsy is especially gratifying. Mrs. Lewes will be glad of your letter of gossip and will no doubt send you a feeble budget in return. In fact nothing has occurred since we last wrote except a succession of headaches and malaises on her part -- although on mine there has been marked improvement from a new and severe regimen.
I am hard at work and wish she were; but she simmers and simmers, despairs and despairs, believes she can never do anything again worth doing etc. etc. A word from you may give her momentary confidence. Once let her begin and on she will go of her own impulse.
The first edition of Problems is just at an end and I am preparing a second. If any of your metaphysical contributors has a mind to write a good attack on it, don't you stop him, on my account, for a really sharp discussion would do me and the book good, and as to differences of opinion or unfavorable estimates of my power I am tr'e8s coriace and can bear equanimously a great deal of refutation.
Sorry to hear of Willie's continued lameness. Cela lui servira de le'e7on, as the judge said when he condemned a man to death.
Ever yours
G. H. L.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Saturday.
My dear Blackwood
Your note with the checque for £807.11 arrived this morning and gave a pleasant filip to our appetites at breakfast. The sale of the Spanish Gypsy is especially gratifying. Mrs. Lewes will be glad of your letter of gossip and will no doubt send you a feeble budget in return. In fact nothing has occurred since we last wrote except a succession of headaches and malaises on her part -- although on mine there has been marked improvement from a new and severe regimen.
I am hard at work and wish she were; but she simmers and simmers, despairs and despairs, believes she can never do anything again worth doing etc. etc. A word from you may give her momentary confidence. Once let her begin and on she will go of her own impulse.
The first edition of Problems is just at an end and I am preparing a second. If any of your metaphysical contributors has a mind to write a good attack on it, don't you stop him, on my account, for a really sharp discussion would do me and the book good, and as to differences of opinion or unfavorable estimates of my power I am tr'e8s coriace and can bear equanimously a great deal of refutation.
Sorry to hear of Willie's continued lameness. Cela lui servira de le'e7on, as the judge said when he condemned a man to death.
Ever yours
G. H. L.
Signature
G. H. L.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to John Blackwood, London, [17 January 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/94626