GHL to John Blackwood, London, [5] January 1872
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [5] January 1872
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [5] January 1872
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1872-01-05
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to John Blackwood, London, [5] January 1872
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
432 January 72.
My dear Blackwood
We returned last night from Weybridge where we had spent the opening week of the New Year with our friends the Cross family -- in the hope that the hospitality, fresh air, and rest would set Mrs. Lewes up she having been in an ailing condition for some time. We enjoyed the visit but alas! it did her no good and she is now under Sir H. Holland's care. We had Jowett, Bowen 433 (the junior in the Tichborne case on whom Coleridge mainly relies), Sandars, 434 and had charades, lots of fun, and some delightful olives -- but all to no purpose as I said!
Going down I found that at the Waterloo Station all the copies of Middlemarch were gone -- and a friend told me he wanted to buy one ten days ago at the London Bridge Station but there were none to be got. I suppose one couldn't stir Smith up to look after his stalls? 435
Main's book is very handsome and the inside is amazing even to me.
Mrs. Lewes thinks there may be some material for her in [Brougham's Life,] 436 and would be grateful for a copy of it.
How does golf get on this weather? sloppy? And you? and Willie? Not that you are expected to answer these questions unless you have to write about something else.
Yours ever
G. H. L.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
432 January 72.
My dear Blackwood
We returned last night from Weybridge where we had spent the opening week of the New Year with our friends the Cross family -- in the hope that the hospitality, fresh air, and rest would set Mrs. Lewes up she having been in an ailing condition for some time. We enjoyed the visit but alas! it did her no good and she is now under Sir H. Holland's care. We had Jowett, Bowen 433 (the junior in the Tichborne case on whom Coleridge mainly relies), Sandars, 434 and had charades, lots of fun, and some delightful olives -- but all to no purpose as I said!
Going down I found that at the Waterloo Station all the copies of Middlemarch were gone -- and a friend told me he wanted to buy one ten days ago at the London Bridge Station but there were none to be got. I suppose one couldn't stir Smith up to look after his stalls? 435
Main's book is very handsome and the inside is amazing even to me.
Mrs. Lewes thinks there may be some material for her in [Brougham's Life,] 436 and would be grateful for a copy of it.
How does golf get on this weather? sloppy? And you? and Willie? Not that you are expected to answer these questions unless you have to write about something else.
Yours ever
G. H. L.
Signature
G. H. L.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to John Blackwood, London, [5] January 1872, 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/94665