John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 11 January 1875
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 11 January 1875
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 11 January 1875
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Henry Lewes
Date(s)
- 1875-01-11
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 11 January 1875
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
George Street, | Edinburgh.
January 11/75.
My Dear Lewes
I have the pleasure of inclosing statement 191 of Mrs. Lewes' Works for the past year and a cheque for the balance £864-0-6d. I hope you will both be pleased with the result, which I do think very satisfactory. Middlemarch is a subject for immense congratulation. If you look at the dates of the reprints you will see the pace at which the sale has gone on and I do not hear of any symptoms of flagging yet. No previous experience could have led us to expect such a rapid and extended sale in the 7/6 form and it is most satisfactory to think that the right course has been adopted throughout with this great book.
The steady continuous sale of Jubal and The Spanish Gypsy is well and will I daresay please Mrs. Lewes quite as much as the success of their big brother. The Gypsy is just reprinted. 192
Comparing the statement with that rendered at the same time last year will I think enable you to understand this one, but if you are in the slightest doubt about anything, write.
It gave me great pleasure to receive Mrs. Lewes' truly gratifying expression of good wishes at the turn of the year, and I hope this will find you both well. Your being threatened with gout is hard. Nobody can say of you, "Ye've wrought well for it," which is a consolatory phrase I have heard addressed to myself in early days.
I have got quit of the cold which has been bothering me almost ever since I came from the country. The final remedy was I think Musselburgh, where I went on Saturday. It came on to rain so I did not play but walked for several hours with a greatcoat and umbrella, watching a good match in a deluge of rain. I felt that I could not logically defend my conduct and I was in a horrid fright all night lest I should begin coughing, but I did not.
Willie joins me in best remembrances to Mrs. Lewes and believe me
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
H. G. Lewes Esq.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
George Street, | Edinburgh.
January 11/75.
My Dear Lewes
I have the pleasure of inclosing statement 191 of Mrs. Lewes' Works for the past year and a cheque for the balance £864-0-6d. I hope you will both be pleased with the result, which I do think very satisfactory. Middlemarch is a subject for immense congratulation. If you look at the dates of the reprints you will see the pace at which the sale has gone on and I do not hear of any symptoms of flagging yet. No previous experience could have led us to expect such a rapid and extended sale in the 7/6 form and it is most satisfactory to think that the right course has been adopted throughout with this great book.
The steady continuous sale of Jubal and The Spanish Gypsy is well and will I daresay please Mrs. Lewes quite as much as the success of their big brother. The Gypsy is just reprinted. 192
Comparing the statement with that rendered at the same time last year will I think enable you to understand this one, but if you are in the slightest doubt about anything, write.
It gave me great pleasure to receive Mrs. Lewes' truly gratifying expression of good wishes at the turn of the year, and I hope this will find you both well. Your being threatened with gout is hard. Nobody can say of you, "Ye've wrought well for it," which is a consolatory phrase I have heard addressed to myself in early days.
I have got quit of the cold which has been bothering me almost ever since I came from the country. The final remedy was I think Musselburgh, where I went on Saturday. It came on to rain so I did not play but walked for several hours with a greatcoat and umbrella, watching a good match in a deluge of rain. I felt that I could not logically defend my conduct and I was in a horrid fright all night lest I should begin coughing, but I did not.
Willie joins me in best remembrances to Mrs. Lewes and believe me
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
H. G. Lewes Esq.
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 11 January 1875, 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/95354