GHL to John Blackwood, London, [26 April 1874]
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [26 April 1874]
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [26 April 1874]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1874-04-26
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [26 April 1874]
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Sunday | (Before the guests come)
My dear Blackwood
Your proposal is quite acceptable and accepted; and your intimation of being soon in town makes the beer bottles lively in expectation!
We have got our country house for the summer; but don't emigrate until June.
We are both flourishing and both writing. This lovely weather would be too enchanting were there not a dark cloud of suspicion behind it in the shape of certain east wind and probably snow. Willie once more on horseback is a "good line in the bills."
Mrs. Lewes is uncomfortable in the belief that the paper which the poems are printed on is that of the specimen volumes sent for the boarding; but I assure her that they are proofs and that W. B. and Sons are more inclined to err on the side of too good a paper than too poor a paper. After all, I say to her, it is what is printed on the paper, not what is the paper printed on which she ought most to regard.
You see how the heat diverges my pothooks. When the score or more guests 78 have come and gone I shall probably go to bed!
Ever yours
G. H. L.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
Sunday | (Before the guests come)
My dear Blackwood
Your proposal is quite acceptable and accepted; and your intimation of being soon in town makes the beer bottles lively in expectation!
We have got our country house for the summer; but don't emigrate until June.
We are both flourishing and both writing. This lovely weather would be too enchanting were there not a dark cloud of suspicion behind it in the shape of certain east wind and probably snow. Willie once more on horseback is a "good line in the bills."
Mrs. Lewes is uncomfortable in the belief that the paper which the poems are printed on is that of the specimen volumes sent for the boarding; but I assure her that they are proofs and that W. B. and Sons are more inclined to err on the side of too good a paper than too poor a paper. After all, I say to her, it is what is printed on the paper, not what is the paper printed on which she ought most to regard.
You see how the heat diverges my pothooks. When the score or more guests 78 have come and gone I shall probably go to bed!
Ever yours
G. H. L.
Signature
G. H. L.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to John Blackwood, London, [26 April 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/94644