GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 17 March 1859
Title
GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 17 March 1859
Title
GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 17 March 1859
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1859-03-17
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 17 March 1859
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extract published: Cross, II, 93-94.
March 17. 59.
My dear Sir
Don't think I mean to worry you with many such requests -- but will you copy for me the enclosed short note to Froude? I know you will, so I say '91thank you.'92
The news you have sent me is worth paying a great deal of pain for, past and future. It comes rather strangely to me, who live in such unconsciousness of what is going on in the world. I am like a deaf person, to whom some one has just shouted that the company round him have been paying him compliments for the last half hour.
Let the best come, you will still be the person outside my own home who first gladdened me about Adam Bede, and my success will always please me the better because you will share the pleasure.
As to the question of the editions, I am not a good opinion -- but I enclose the suggestions of a more experienced judge. I concur in what he says, only that I attach more weight to the possibility of the present edition vanishing too quickly for the immediate production of the cheaper one. Still, I really know nothing about it.
Ever yours truly
George Eliot.
The other letter besides Froude's, was a very ardent one from Mr. Verey 70 who asks my address that he may send me the Brighton Examiner.
John Blackwood Esq.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extract published: Cross, II, 93-94.
March 17. 59.
My dear Sir
Don't think I mean to worry you with many such requests -- but will you copy for me the enclosed short note to Froude? I know you will, so I say '91thank you.'92
The news you have sent me is worth paying a great deal of pain for, past and future. It comes rather strangely to me, who live in such unconsciousness of what is going on in the world. I am like a deaf person, to whom some one has just shouted that the company round him have been paying him compliments for the last half hour.
Let the best come, you will still be the person outside my own home who first gladdened me about Adam Bede, and my success will always please me the better because you will share the pleasure.
As to the question of the editions, I am not a good opinion -- but I enclose the suggestions of a more experienced judge. I concur in what he says, only that I attach more weight to the possibility of the present edition vanishing too quickly for the immediate production of the cheaper one. Still, I really know nothing about it.
Ever yours truly
George Eliot.
The other letter besides Froude's, was a very ardent one from Mr. Verey 70 who asks my address that he may send me the Brighton Examiner.
John Blackwood Esq.
Signature
George Eliot.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Blackwood, Wandsworth, 17 March 1859, 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/92738