GE to John Blackwood, London, 3 January 1873
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 3 January 1873
Title
GE to John Blackwood, London, 3 January 1873
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1873-01-03
Place
London
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, London, 3 January 1873
MS: National Library of Scotland. Mostly published: Cross, III, 192-193.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
January 3. 1873.
My dear Mr. Blackwood
It was very pleasant to have your greeting on the New Year, though I was keeping its advent in melancholy guise, with head bound up and a diet of slops imposed by the inability to swallow anything else. I am relieved now from the neuralgic part of my ailment, and am able to write something of the hearty response I feel to your good wishes. We both hope that the coming year may continue to you all the family joys which must make the core of your happiness -- without underrating golf and good contributors to Maga. Health has to be presupposed as the vehicle of all other good, and in this respect you may be possibly better off in '73 than in '72, for I think you have had several invalidings within the last twelvemonth.
Mr. Langford wrote yesterday that he knew of an article on Middlemarch being in preparation for the "Times," which certainly was never before so slow in noticing a book of mine. 690 Whether such an article will affect the sale favourably seems eminently uncertain, and can only complicate Mr. Simpson's problem.
We have been glad to welcome our good friend Mr. Anthony Trollope after his long absence. He is wonderfully full of life and energy, and will soon bring out his two thick volumes on Australian Colonies. 691 (Mr. Shand, 692 by the way, has never appeared.)
My friendly Dutch publishers lately sent us a handsome row of volumes -- "George Eliot's Romantische Werken" 693 with an introduction in which comparisons are safely shrouded for me in the haze of Dutch, so that if they are disadvantageous I am not pained. Mr. Lewes is in good health just now, and works gaily at his difficult problems, so that my little attack was wanted to keep up our average mutual share of calamity -- a very small share in this world of cattle diseases, inundations, and famine fever.
Please give my best wishes for the coming year to Mr. William Blackwood, and believe me
Always yours truly
M. E. Lewes.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Mostly published: Cross, III, 192-193.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
January 3. 1873.
My dear Mr. Blackwood
It was very pleasant to have your greeting on the New Year, though I was keeping its advent in melancholy guise, with head bound up and a diet of slops imposed by the inability to swallow anything else. I am relieved now from the neuralgic part of my ailment, and am able to write something of the hearty response I feel to your good wishes. We both hope that the coming year may continue to you all the family joys which must make the core of your happiness -- without underrating golf and good contributors to Maga. Health has to be presupposed as the vehicle of all other good, and in this respect you may be possibly better off in '73 than in '72, for I think you have had several invalidings within the last twelvemonth.
Mr. Langford wrote yesterday that he knew of an article on Middlemarch being in preparation for the "Times," which certainly was never before so slow in noticing a book of mine. 690 Whether such an article will affect the sale favourably seems eminently uncertain, and can only complicate Mr. Simpson's problem.
We have been glad to welcome our good friend Mr. Anthony Trollope after his long absence. He is wonderfully full of life and energy, and will soon bring out his two thick volumes on Australian Colonies. 691 (Mr. Shand, 692 by the way, has never appeared.)
My friendly Dutch publishers lately sent us a handsome row of volumes -- "George Eliot's Romantische Werken" 693 with an introduction in which comparisons are safely shrouded for me in the haze of Dutch, so that if they are disadvantageous I am not pained. Mr. Lewes is in good health just now, and works gaily at his difficult problems, so that my little attack was wanted to keep up our average mutual share of calamity -- a very small share in this world of cattle diseases, inundations, and famine fever.
Please give my best wishes for the coming year to Mr. William Blackwood, and believe me
Always yours truly
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, London, 3 January 1873, 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/92671