John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 28 December 1875
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 28 December 1875
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 28 December 1875
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Henry Lewes
Date(s)
- 1875-12-28
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 28 December 1875
MS: National Library of Scotland and Mrs. Carrington Ouvry. Hitherto unpublished.
George Street, | Edinburgh.
December 28/75.
My Dear Lewes
It gives me much pleasure to receive your letter today and most cordially do I and all your friends here respond in warm good wishes to Mrs. Lewes and you. I often wish she could hear some of our home talk about Daniel as it might lighten some of her despondent views. We speak of the book and the characters as of realities, and the exquisite selfishness of Grandcourt's complaint that Mrs. Glasher had made him feel quite unwell that morning has so tickled us that a reference to that scene 373 is applied to all unreasonable complaints.
Simpson showed me a comprehensive scheme of advertising and "billing" Deronda and I have no doubt he is carrying it out energetically. He is not here today owing to a slight touch of cold and I am sending him your letter as I know your kind message will be very grateful. I have desired Title pages to be set for your approval.
I have already sounded the glories of Deronda in the Times direction and I have very little doubt they will notice the first part at once.
Inclosed I have the pleasure of sending a cheque £333-1-6d being the royalty for the year on Middlemarch, Jubal, and The Spanish Gypsy as per accompanying memorandum. 374 You will I hope join me in thinking it very satisfactory, especially as regards Middlemarch and the Gypsy. Jubal I think ought to sell more.
I am sorry to hear the Life of Heine is so worthless. The compiler must I think be a literary gentleman who was introduced to me some years ago and wrote submitting a list of a dozen subjects all of which he was equally ready to handle. It would have required an intellectual giant with even a few of the subjects proposed, so I intimated that my hands were full or did not answer at all. I must find you some better book.
This is a fine bright day and instead of golfing I am actually going to drive into the country with my wife to make a Christmas call.
The approach of this season generally makes me very dull as it recals so many so very dear who are gone, but when the time comes I feel as of old and our dinner party on Saturday was very bright. My nephew joins me in all good wishes to you both.
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
Royalty payable on
Copies less 25th Book Middlemarch, 1 vol. 1/6 292. 5.6
Copies less 25th Book Jubal, 2nd Edition 1/6 14.15.6
Copies less 25th Book Spanish Gypsy 5th Edition 1/6 26. 0.6
£333. 1.6
MS: National Library of Scotland and Mrs. Carrington Ouvry. Hitherto unpublished.
George Street, | Edinburgh.
December 28/75.
My Dear Lewes
It gives me much pleasure to receive your letter today and most cordially do I and all your friends here respond in warm good wishes to Mrs. Lewes and you. I often wish she could hear some of our home talk about Daniel as it might lighten some of her despondent views. We speak of the book and the characters as of realities, and the exquisite selfishness of Grandcourt's complaint that Mrs. Glasher had made him feel quite unwell that morning has so tickled us that a reference to that scene 373 is applied to all unreasonable complaints.
Simpson showed me a comprehensive scheme of advertising and "billing" Deronda and I have no doubt he is carrying it out energetically. He is not here today owing to a slight touch of cold and I am sending him your letter as I know your kind message will be very grateful. I have desired Title pages to be set for your approval.
I have already sounded the glories of Deronda in the Times direction and I have very little doubt they will notice the first part at once.
Inclosed I have the pleasure of sending a cheque £333-1-6d being the royalty for the year on Middlemarch, Jubal, and The Spanish Gypsy as per accompanying memorandum. 374 You will I hope join me in thinking it very satisfactory, especially as regards Middlemarch and the Gypsy. Jubal I think ought to sell more.
I am sorry to hear the Life of Heine is so worthless. The compiler must I think be a literary gentleman who was introduced to me some years ago and wrote submitting a list of a dozen subjects all of which he was equally ready to handle. It would have required an intellectual giant with even a few of the subjects proposed, so I intimated that my hands were full or did not answer at all. I must find you some better book.
This is a fine bright day and instead of golfing I am actually going to drive into the country with my wife to make a Christmas call.
The approach of this season generally makes me very dull as it recals so many so very dear who are gone, but when the time comes I feel as of old and our dinner party on Saturday was very bright. My nephew joins me in all good wishes to you both.
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
Royalty payable on
Copies less 25th Book Middlemarch, 1 vol. 1/6 292. 5.6
Copies less 25th Book Jubal, 2nd Edition 1/6 14.15.6
Copies less 25th Book Spanish Gypsy 5th Edition 1/6 26. 0.6
£333. 1.6
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 28 December 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/95406