GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 12 June 1851
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 12 June 1851
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 12 June 1851
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Chapman
Date(s)
- 1851-06-12
Place
COVENTRY
Letter Content
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 12 June 1851
Text: Maggs Bros. Catalogue 309 (May -- June 1913), item 1740.
I am chiefly concerned that you should have appeared to overlook Hickson's 956 interest or have failed in etiquette towards him. If you had asked him for an introduction to J. S. Mill, it was clearly wrong to introduce yourself by letter. . . .
I am quite willing to agree to your proposition about the nominal editorship, or to anything else really for the interest of the Review. On the whole I think with you as to the expediency of your plan. Perhaps it was better to send a written answer to James Martineau. . . . I heartily wish the prospectus had been longer delayed and thought over before it was sent out to any of the dons. 957 . . . Everything has been too hurried. But you will say, [After meat, mustard.] Your wisdom comes too late. Still, the moral is not useless. Caution for the future.
Marian Evans.
Text: Maggs Bros. Catalogue 309 (May -- June 1913), item 1740.
I am chiefly concerned that you should have appeared to overlook Hickson's 956 interest or have failed in etiquette towards him. If you had asked him for an introduction to J. S. Mill, it was clearly wrong to introduce yourself by letter. . . .
I am quite willing to agree to your proposition about the nominal editorship, or to anything else really for the interest of the Review. On the whole I think with you as to the expediency of your plan. Perhaps it was better to send a written answer to James Martineau. . . . I heartily wish the prospectus had been longer delayed and thought over before it was sent out to any of the dons. 957 . . . Everything has been too hurried. But you will say, [After meat, mustard.] Your wisdom comes too late. Still, the moral is not useless. Caution for the future.
Marian Evans.
Signature
Marian Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 12 June 1851, 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/92779