GHL to Robert Lytton, Harrogate, 15 July 1870
Title
GHL to Robert Lytton, Harrogate, 15 July 1870
Title
GHL to Robert Lytton, Harrogate, 15 July 1870
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Robert Lyt
Date(s)
- 1870-07-15
Place
Harrogate
Letter Content
GHL to Robert Lytton, Harrogate, 15 July 1870
MS: Lady Hermione Cobbold.
Harrogate Friday July 15th 70.
My dear Lytton
I shall be truly glad to hear that you have made a satisfactory arrangement with S. 915 on all accounts. I am sure you will be pleased with him and it is of eminent importance to us authors to have a gentleman to deal with. I put on the screw to him, but he intimated that he thought the sum a large one. So it is. Yet I have good hopes.
We leave this on Monday for Whitby -- (whither please address till you hear from me -- post office). We only leave because our delightful lodgings are let on that day, and we shall quit with regret, for the place has been of very decided benefit to your dilapidated friend, and is moreover pleasant enough. We drink the waters and walk before breakfast. After the matutinal cigar, if I cannot seduce Polly from her beloved Theocritus, 916 I ramble among the fields, glens, or over the moors musing "on lovely things that conquer death." If I can seduce her we both ramble and talk of the said lovely things. To be with her is a perpetual Banquet to which that of Plato would present but a flat rival. Then we drink again and listen to some not very thrilling music in the Spa Gardens, where there are pretty children, high cheekboned women and a few swells from Leeds. But no fashion, not much costume, and above all no one who knows us! At 2 we dine copieusement, then a nap, and Polly reads to me for a couple of hours, when again we ramble, and go to the evening concert. Supper at nine, a french novel, and bed at 10 or 'bd past. [So runs the round of life from day to day.] 917
I hope the sea at Whitby may be as strengthening as this bracing air. We shall not stay there long and then we go to our Farm in Surrey but shall certainly be at the Priory again in the first week of September and hope to see as much of you and [Edith] -- (to whom our love) as you can honestly spare us.
Ever yours faithfully
G. H. Lewes.
MS: Lady Hermione Cobbold.
Harrogate Friday July 15th 70.
My dear Lytton
I shall be truly glad to hear that you have made a satisfactory arrangement with S. 915 on all accounts. I am sure you will be pleased with him and it is of eminent importance to us authors to have a gentleman to deal with. I put on the screw to him, but he intimated that he thought the sum a large one. So it is. Yet I have good hopes.
We leave this on Monday for Whitby -- (whither please address till you hear from me -- post office). We only leave because our delightful lodgings are let on that day, and we shall quit with regret, for the place has been of very decided benefit to your dilapidated friend, and is moreover pleasant enough. We drink the waters and walk before breakfast. After the matutinal cigar, if I cannot seduce Polly from her beloved Theocritus, 916 I ramble among the fields, glens, or over the moors musing "on lovely things that conquer death." If I can seduce her we both ramble and talk of the said lovely things. To be with her is a perpetual Banquet to which that of Plato would present but a flat rival. Then we drink again and listen to some not very thrilling music in the Spa Gardens, where there are pretty children, high cheekboned women and a few swells from Leeds. But no fashion, not much costume, and above all no one who knows us! At 2 we dine copieusement, then a nap, and Polly reads to me for a couple of hours, when again we ramble, and go to the evening concert. Supper at nine, a french novel, and bed at 10 or 'bd past. [So runs the round of life from day to day.] 917
I hope the sea at Whitby may be as strengthening as this bracing air. We shall not stay there long and then we go to our Farm in Surrey but shall certainly be at the Priory again in the first week of September and hope to see as much of you and [Edith] -- (to whom our love) as you can honestly spare us.
Ever yours faithfully
G. H. Lewes.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Robert Lytton, Harrogate, 15 July 1870, 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/94996