GHL to William Blackwood, [London, 22 September 1871]
Title
GHL to William Blackwood, [London, 22 September 1871]
Title
GHL to William Blackwood, [London, 22 September 1871]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
William Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1871-09-22
Place
[London]
Letter Content
GHL to William Blackwood, [London, 22 September 1871]
MS: National Library of Scotland. Endorsed: Sept. 15. Hitherto unpublished.
Friday.
My dear Willie
By this post I send a French book which is just the effective and exceptional tone we think would be most advisable if you can match it, but there is nothing like it among the patterns sent. Mrs. Lewes is so charmed with the vignettes which are on the title-page of the cheap edition of her novels that she thinks one of them -- that to the "Mill" or that to "Felix Holt" might most advantageously be placed on the cover -- or if you have a circular vignette, such as those on the covers of the edition -- only it must be one representing a manor house or bit of town with a steeple and gables -- it could occupy less room and yet give an elegant appearance. I think the circular vignette might be placed after the 1st title: Thus
Middlemarch
A story of Prov. Life by George Eliot
[rough circular sketch]
Part 1 Miss Brooke.
Wm Blackwood and Sons.
[Four lines deleted.]
Perhaps among your many blocks you may have one that would suit for Middlemarch or Fernhurst 369 even better than Little Treby or Dorlcote Mill.
Ever yours
G. H. Lewes.
You will be glad to hear that Mrs. Lewes is now in a fair way of recovering. To-day I think she may venture on a drive. At any rate her appetite is returning.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Endorsed: Sept. 15. Hitherto unpublished.
Friday.
My dear Willie
By this post I send a French book which is just the effective and exceptional tone we think would be most advisable if you can match it, but there is nothing like it among the patterns sent. Mrs. Lewes is so charmed with the vignettes which are on the title-page of the cheap edition of her novels that she thinks one of them -- that to the "Mill" or that to "Felix Holt" might most advantageously be placed on the cover -- or if you have a circular vignette, such as those on the covers of the edition -- only it must be one representing a manor house or bit of town with a steeple and gables -- it could occupy less room and yet give an elegant appearance. I think the circular vignette might be placed after the 1st title: Thus
Middlemarch
A story of Prov. Life by George Eliot
[rough circular sketch]
Part 1 Miss Brooke.
Wm Blackwood and Sons.
[Four lines deleted.]
Perhaps among your many blocks you may have one that would suit for Middlemarch or Fernhurst 369 even better than Little Treby or Dorlcote Mill.
Ever yours
G. H. Lewes.
You will be glad to hear that Mrs. Lewes is now in a fair way of recovering. To-day I think she may venture on a drive. At any rate her appetite is returning.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to William Blackwood, [London, 22 September 1871], 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/95065