GHL to John Blackwood, London, [28 June 1861]
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [28 June 1861]
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [28 June 1861]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1861-06-28
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [28 June 1861]
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Blandford Square, | N.W.
June 1861.
My dear Blackwood
I have read Du Chaillu but have so very little confidence in his veracity that I cannot make an article on the book -- especially as it is now rather a worn subject. How much may be true and how much make up one cannot say; but the book has not the ring of personal experience.
What say you to Mad Dogs! a subject I have for some time had in petto and for which a recent French publication will furnish a peg. Popular superstition makes these July and August months the great periods for hydrophobia, and the article would have a sort of 'e0propos. My purpose is to clear up some of the current errors on the subject and show what can be done as preventive.
How about Buckle? I have been unable to write ever since I came home; but am feeling better today, and therefore ready to scheme papers.
Mrs. Lewes is buried in old quartos and vellum bound literature which I would rather not read; but she extracts nutriment, I have no doubt. She is very well. Don't forget to get a copy of Pug's photograph taken that the disconsolate family may occasionally recal him.
Ever faithfully yours
G. H. Lewes.
John Blackwood, Esq.
Isn't it too bad of the Cornhill continuing to take up my subjects and titles? This month they have "Food" -- and of course people imagine I am furnishing a rechauff'e9 of my physiology.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Blandford Square, | N.W.
June 1861.
My dear Blackwood
I have read Du Chaillu but have so very little confidence in his veracity that I cannot make an article on the book -- especially as it is now rather a worn subject. How much may be true and how much make up one cannot say; but the book has not the ring of personal experience.
What say you to Mad Dogs! a subject I have for some time had in petto and for which a recent French publication will furnish a peg. Popular superstition makes these July and August months the great periods for hydrophobia, and the article would have a sort of 'e0propos. My purpose is to clear up some of the current errors on the subject and show what can be done as preventive.
How about Buckle? I have been unable to write ever since I came home; but am feeling better today, and therefore ready to scheme papers.
Mrs. Lewes is buried in old quartos and vellum bound literature which I would rather not read; but she extracts nutriment, I have no doubt. She is very well. Don't forget to get a copy of Pug's photograph taken that the disconsolate family may occasionally recal him.
Ever faithfully yours
G. H. Lewes.
John Blackwood, Esq.
Isn't it too bad of the Cornhill continuing to take up my subjects and titles? This month they have "Food" -- and of course people imagine I am furnishing a rechauff'e9 of my physiology.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to John Blackwood, London, [28 June 1861], 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/94652