John Blackwood to GE, St. Andrews, 3 November 1873
Title
John Blackwood to GE, St. Andrews, 3 November 1873
Title
John Blackwood to GE, St. Andrews, 3 November 1873
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Eliot
Date(s)
- 1873-11-03
Place
St. Andrews
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GE, St. Andrews, 3 November 1873
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extract published: John Blackwood, p. 384.
Strathtyrum | St. Andrews | N.B.
November 3/73.
My Dear Mrs. Lewes
By a message from Lewes to George St. I doubt not you are now established at the Priory for the winter and I hope your stay in the Country has done you both a great deal of good. We go into Edinburgh for the winter on Wednesday and the melancholy packing has already begun. I hear them hard at it outside the door of my room.
When I last heard of Middlemarch the sale was still going on. It has been most satisfactory, but I shall write to you with particulars from Edinburgh.
We are getting the best weather we have had at the close of the Season. The woods are looking lovely and the Golfing green is in rare order. We have had a good many visitors as usual and among others Delane lately. His tale of the blunders through which the Ashantee War had arisen increase our anger at the policy and administration which has sent so many fine fellows to that horrid coast. Wolseley 866 is a friend and correspondent of mine. He wrote the account of his Red River expedition in the Magazine. I had a letter from his wife yesterday. She had heard from him in good health and spirits. He wrote on the 5th from Cape Coast where he had arrived on the 2nd. He is an able man and will, I doubt not, do well, but who can fight with such a climate? I have a great many friends with the force and I wish I saw them well out of it.
I have suffered a good deal this autumn from those horrid attacks of oppression at pit of stomach apparently, which unfit one for anything while they last. I cannot make out what it is but I have always been more or less subject to them. Sometimes worry seems to me to be the main cause of them. However they never affect my strength so I do not think it can be anything very bad.
We had much interest in my daughter coming out which she did at the Golf Ball at the beginning of October. She looked like a little fairy and to see her and her mother dancing opposite to each other was a treat.
With best regards to Lewes and hoping to get good accounts of you both, believe me
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extract published: John Blackwood, p. 384.
Strathtyrum | St. Andrews | N.B.
November 3/73.
My Dear Mrs. Lewes
By a message from Lewes to George St. I doubt not you are now established at the Priory for the winter and I hope your stay in the Country has done you both a great deal of good. We go into Edinburgh for the winter on Wednesday and the melancholy packing has already begun. I hear them hard at it outside the door of my room.
When I last heard of Middlemarch the sale was still going on. It has been most satisfactory, but I shall write to you with particulars from Edinburgh.
We are getting the best weather we have had at the close of the Season. The woods are looking lovely and the Golfing green is in rare order. We have had a good many visitors as usual and among others Delane lately. His tale of the blunders through which the Ashantee War had arisen increase our anger at the policy and administration which has sent so many fine fellows to that horrid coast. Wolseley 866 is a friend and correspondent of mine. He wrote the account of his Red River expedition in the Magazine. I had a letter from his wife yesterday. She had heard from him in good health and spirits. He wrote on the 5th from Cape Coast where he had arrived on the 2nd. He is an able man and will, I doubt not, do well, but who can fight with such a climate? I have a great many friends with the force and I wish I saw them well out of it.
I have suffered a good deal this autumn from those horrid attacks of oppression at pit of stomach apparently, which unfit one for anything while they last. I cannot make out what it is but I have always been more or less subject to them. Sometimes worry seems to me to be the main cause of them. However they never affect my strength so I do not think it can be anything very bad.
We had much interest in my daughter coming out which she did at the Golf Ball at the beginning of October. She looked like a little fairy and to see her and her mother dancing opposite to each other was a treat.
With best regards to Lewes and hoping to get good accounts of you both, believe me
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GE, St. Andrews, 3 November 1873, 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/95337