John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 16 April 1859
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 16 April 1859
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 16 April 1859
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Eliot
Date(s)
- 1859-04-16
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 16 April 1859
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | April 16/59.
My Dear George Eliot
You must now I think have good news enough to cheer even your most desponding spirit.
Lewes did mention that neither he nor you saw the Times regularly, but I had given so strong a hint that I did not doubt one or other of you would be on the look out.
The review is by Dallas and does him great credit. The authorship should not be named as the Times people very sensibly do not like their reviewers to be known.
It appeared most opportunely and the effect on the second edition was instantaneous. Mr. Langford who has been bewailing my recklessness in printing 750, now writes wildly to send up the whole impression. What the exact sale is I do not know. I fancy over 400, but Lewes who has been in the Row will have seen. The demand seems so brisk that we have given orders to reprint again. There is about a volume in type.
Mr. H. Anders, rector of Kirkby is a singular specimen of officious ignorance. I wonder the Times inserted the letter. Mrs. Blackwood says there was a Mr. Anders, a surgeon at Newark, who attended her grandmother and family. 106 This Anders had a son, a clergyman, who was suspended for two years for some little transgression. We think this must be our beauty. But who in the world is Liggins? He must have ability of some kind to impose upon so many people.
Langford tells me that you have sent in a contradiction -- which is right and it will, I doubt not, be most neatly expressed. I hope you have taken care of the hand. There is evidently a perfect fever about the author's life now.
I read with great pleasure the expression in your last letter as to the "quiet joy" you experienced in your success. I long to see you and congratulate you on your triumph.
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
George Eliot Esq.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | April 16/59.
My Dear George Eliot
You must now I think have good news enough to cheer even your most desponding spirit.
Lewes did mention that neither he nor you saw the Times regularly, but I had given so strong a hint that I did not doubt one or other of you would be on the look out.
The review is by Dallas and does him great credit. The authorship should not be named as the Times people very sensibly do not like their reviewers to be known.
It appeared most opportunely and the effect on the second edition was instantaneous. Mr. Langford who has been bewailing my recklessness in printing 750, now writes wildly to send up the whole impression. What the exact sale is I do not know. I fancy over 400, but Lewes who has been in the Row will have seen. The demand seems so brisk that we have given orders to reprint again. There is about a volume in type.
Mr. H. Anders, rector of Kirkby is a singular specimen of officious ignorance. I wonder the Times inserted the letter. Mrs. Blackwood says there was a Mr. Anders, a surgeon at Newark, who attended her grandmother and family. 106 This Anders had a son, a clergyman, who was suspended for two years for some little transgression. We think this must be our beauty. But who in the world is Liggins? He must have ability of some kind to impose upon so many people.
Langford tells me that you have sent in a contradiction -- which is right and it will, I doubt not, be most neatly expressed. I hope you have taken care of the hand. There is evidently a perfect fever about the author's life now.
I read with great pleasure the expression in your last letter as to the "quiet joy" you experienced in your success. I long to see you and congratulate you on your triumph.
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
George Eliot Esq.
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 16 April 1859, 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/95194