GHL to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5? March 1860]
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5? March 1860]
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5? March 1860]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1860-03-05
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GHL to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5? March 1860]
MS: National Library of Scotland. Endorsed: March/60. Hitherto unpublished.
Holly Lodge | Monday.
My dear Blackwood
Thanks for the Mem. though 'tis not so bright looking as I had hoped; but I will hope that the publication when complete may not only pick up again, but become a permanent "good thing." I hear such strong testimonies of it from the profession and from young medicals that I begin to look to them as the chief source of sale. I would rather the settlement took place when your books are finally made up. Enclosed is a list of "presentations."
Mrs. Lewes is getting her eyes redder and swollener every morning as she lives through her tragic story. But there is such a strain of poetry to relieve the tragedy that the more she cries, and the readers cry, the better say I. She is anxious to hear your opinion of the part you have got; although she knows you don't like disagreeable and uncomfortable situations.
Maga certainly fears no rival -- nor need she: a schooner may sail faster than a frigate but for serious work the frigate is the craft.
Ever yours faithfully
G. H. Lewes.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Endorsed: March/60. Hitherto unpublished.
Holly Lodge | Monday.
My dear Blackwood
Thanks for the Mem. though 'tis not so bright looking as I had hoped; but I will hope that the publication when complete may not only pick up again, but become a permanent "good thing." I hear such strong testimonies of it from the profession and from young medicals that I begin to look to them as the chief source of sale. I would rather the settlement took place when your books are finally made up. Enclosed is a list of "presentations."
Mrs. Lewes is getting her eyes redder and swollener every morning as she lives through her tragic story. But there is such a strain of poetry to relieve the tragedy that the more she cries, and the readers cry, the better say I. She is anxious to hear your opinion of the part you have got; although she knows you don't like disagreeable and uncomfortable situations.
Maga certainly fears no rival -- nor need she: a schooner may sail faster than a frigate but for serious work the frigate is the craft.
Ever yours faithfully
G. H. Lewes.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, [5? March 1860], 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/94801