GE to John Blackwood, London, 21 April 1868
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 21 April 1868
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 21 April 1868
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1868-04-21
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, London, 21 April 1868
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 39-40.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
April 21. 68.
My dear Sir
I send you by today's post the manuscript of Book IV that it may be at hand whenever there is opportunity for getting it into print and letting me have it in that form for correction. It is desirable to get as forward as we can, in case of the Americans' asking for delay after their reception of the sheets -- if they venture to make any arrangement. I shall send the M.S. of Book V (the last) as soon as headache will permit, but that is an uncertain limit.
We returned from Torquay on the 16th, leaving the glorious weather behind us, and getting disordered internals from a long unpleasant railway journey. We were more in love with Torquay on a better acquaintance; the weather, and the spring buds, and the choirs of birds made it seem more of a paradise to us every day.
On Sunday we had the pleasure of a visit from Col. Hamley, looking handsomer than ever. I suppose you will come up again in June?
The Poem will be less tragic than I threatened: Mr. Lewes has prevailed on me to return to my original conception, and give up the additional development which I determined on subsequently. The Poem is rather shorter in consequence. Don't you think that my artistic deference and pliability deserve that it should also be the better in consequence? I now end it as I determined to end it when I first conceived the story. 742
Always yours sincerely
M. E. Lewes.
John Blackwood Esq.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 39-40.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
April 21. 68.
My dear Sir
I send you by today's post the manuscript of Book IV that it may be at hand whenever there is opportunity for getting it into print and letting me have it in that form for correction. It is desirable to get as forward as we can, in case of the Americans' asking for delay after their reception of the sheets -- if they venture to make any arrangement. I shall send the M.S. of Book V (the last) as soon as headache will permit, but that is an uncertain limit.
We returned from Torquay on the 16th, leaving the glorious weather behind us, and getting disordered internals from a long unpleasant railway journey. We were more in love with Torquay on a better acquaintance; the weather, and the spring buds, and the choirs of birds made it seem more of a paradise to us every day.
On Sunday we had the pleasure of a visit from Col. Hamley, looking handsomer than ever. I suppose you will come up again in June?
The Poem will be less tragic than I threatened: Mr. Lewes has prevailed on me to return to my original conception, and give up the additional development which I determined on subsequently. The Poem is rather shorter in consequence. Don't you think that my artistic deference and pliability deserve that it should also be the better in consequence? I now end it as I determined to end it when I first conceived the story. 742
Always yours sincerely
M. E. Lewes.
John Blackwood Esq.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, London, 21 April 1868, 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/92637