A Selection from the Obituary Notices of the Late John Blackwood

A Selection from the Obituary Notices of the Late John Blackwood

Blackwood, John. ed. William Blackwood

Edinburgh: Printed for private circulation, 1880

1880

George Eliot to William Blackwood, 14 December 1880. “I thank you with much feeling for sending me the well-judged volume in memory of your dear Uncle. I have read through it this morning, and I should not have believed beforehand that a selection of Obituary Notices would give me so much satisfaction. They are sober and truthful and, I imagine, only inexact in some minor details. It is really to the credit of our press that such a volume would be a trustworthy authority to a writer who wished to give a full history of our literature and its personnel in the last quarter of a century.” GEL 9: 319 

Blackwood, John. ed. William Blackwood, A Selection from the Obituary Notices of the Late John Blackwood, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57313

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