GE to John Blackwood, [Wandsworth], 28 January 1860
Title
GE to John Blackwood, [Wandsworth], 28 January 1860
Title
GE to John Blackwood, [Wandsworth], 28 January 1860
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1860-01-28
Place
[Wandsworth]
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, [Wandsworth], 28 January 1860
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, II, 156-157.
January 28. 60.
My dear Sir
Thanks for your letter of yesterday, with the Genevese enclosure -- no promise, alas! of smallest watch expressing largest admiration, but a desire for "permission to translate."
I think it answers best to have the sheets in batches -- one gets a better idea of the effect in that way, and it is desirable to see one's book in the best light. I have been invalided for the last week, and of course am a prisoner in the Castle of Giant Despair, who growls in my ear that the Mill on the Floss is detestable, and that the last volume will be the climax of that general detestableness. Such is the elation attendant on what a self-elected lady-correspondent of mine from Scotland calls my "exciting career"! 463
Mr. Lewes asks me to beg that Mr. Simpson may be incisively reminded to send him a proof of the chapter on the Nervous System in "Seaside Studies." He doesn't want to see any of the other chapters, but this he is anxious to revise.
I have had a great pleasure this week 'e0propos of his authorship. Dr. Inman, of Liverpool, has dedicated a new book (Foundation for a New Theory and Practice of Medicine) to "G. H. Lewes, as an acknowledgment of benefit received from noticing his close observation and clear inductive reasoning in '91Sea-side Studies'92 and '91The Physiology of Common Life.'92"
That is really gratifying, coming from a physician of some scientific mark, who is not a personal friend.
Yours, just now dismally,
Always truly
Marian Evans Lewes.
John Blackwood Esq.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, II, 156-157.
January 28. 60.
My dear Sir
Thanks for your letter of yesterday, with the Genevese enclosure -- no promise, alas! of smallest watch expressing largest admiration, but a desire for "permission to translate."
I think it answers best to have the sheets in batches -- one gets a better idea of the effect in that way, and it is desirable to see one's book in the best light. I have been invalided for the last week, and of course am a prisoner in the Castle of Giant Despair, who growls in my ear that the Mill on the Floss is detestable, and that the last volume will be the climax of that general detestableness. Such is the elation attendant on what a self-elected lady-correspondent of mine from Scotland calls my "exciting career"! 463
Mr. Lewes asks me to beg that Mr. Simpson may be incisively reminded to send him a proof of the chapter on the Nervous System in "Seaside Studies." He doesn't want to see any of the other chapters, but this he is anxious to revise.
I have had a great pleasure this week 'e0propos of his authorship. Dr. Inman, of Liverpool, has dedicated a new book (Foundation for a New Theory and Practice of Medicine) to "G. H. Lewes, as an acknowledgment of benefit received from noticing his close observation and clear inductive reasoning in '91Sea-side Studies'92 and '91The Physiology of Common Life.'92"
That is really gratifying, coming from a physician of some scientific mark, who is not a personal friend.
Yours, just now dismally,
Always truly
Marian Evans Lewes.
John Blackwood Esq.
Signature
Marian Evans Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, [Wandsworth], 28 January 1860, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/92571