GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 20 June [1851]
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 20 June [1851]
Title
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 20 June [1851]
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
John Chapman
Date(s)
- 1851-06-20
Place
COVENTRY
Letter Content
GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 20 June [1851]
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Endorsed: Miss Evans. Published: George Eliot and John Chapman, pp. 37-38.
Rosehill, June 20.
My dear Friend
Your last letter was just what I wanted -- it paid up your arrears of news.
I have read Mr. Syme's 971 articles, and think them very well done, at least the one on Toulmin Smith. 972 That on Chapman 973 is more careless, and wants revisal. See p. 5, where he is speaking of the relative amount of our Indian and South American exports. He has not said what he means, or rather, what he has said means nothing. I wish you would ask him to do the articles on Ierson, 974 Greenwood, 975 Langford, 976 and Smith's Social Aspects, 977 for all which I have no appetite.
Pray when are we to hear any more of the Strauss abridgment? 978 I have been looking through the work in writing on it for the Catalogue and have been all the time thinking what a capital abridgment I could make.
I congratulate you on your migration, but I hope the room has been duly exorcised since I left it. 979 I pity you, poor soul, with those dismal windows before you instead of chestnut trees and turf. This gold pen is a bad scribbling pen. You see it obstinately refuses to mark every now and then, but I like it exceedingly when I am writing rather slowly. I have delicious walks before breakfast these fine mornings and have said good bye to headache. Mr. Bray is out, Mr. Noel has not yet come, so we are having a charmingly quiet interval.
There would be the same objection to Miss Bronty 980 as to Thackeray with regard to the article on Modern Novelists. She would have to leave out Currer Bell, who is perhaps the best of them all.
It appears James Martineau 981 was rather apologetic. I shall be glad to know the purport of your second interview with him.
I had left myself hardly time to write before tea, that is, before post time, but I reflected that it would be of no use to write tomorrow.
Yours in haste
Marian Evans.
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Endorsed: Miss Evans. Published: George Eliot and John Chapman, pp. 37-38.
Rosehill, June 20.
My dear Friend
Your last letter was just what I wanted -- it paid up your arrears of news.
I have read Mr. Syme's 971 articles, and think them very well done, at least the one on Toulmin Smith. 972 That on Chapman 973 is more careless, and wants revisal. See p. 5, where he is speaking of the relative amount of our Indian and South American exports. He has not said what he means, or rather, what he has said means nothing. I wish you would ask him to do the articles on Ierson, 974 Greenwood, 975 Langford, 976 and Smith's Social Aspects, 977 for all which I have no appetite.
Pray when are we to hear any more of the Strauss abridgment? 978 I have been looking through the work in writing on it for the Catalogue and have been all the time thinking what a capital abridgment I could make.
I congratulate you on your migration, but I hope the room has been duly exorcised since I left it. 979 I pity you, poor soul, with those dismal windows before you instead of chestnut trees and turf. This gold pen is a bad scribbling pen. You see it obstinately refuses to mark every now and then, but I like it exceedingly when I am writing rather slowly. I have delicious walks before breakfast these fine mornings and have said good bye to headache. Mr. Bray is out, Mr. Noel has not yet come, so we are having a charmingly quiet interval.
There would be the same objection to Miss Bronty 980 as to Thackeray with regard to the article on Modern Novelists. She would have to leave out Currer Bell, who is perhaps the best of them all.
It appears James Martineau 981 was rather apologetic. I shall be glad to know the purport of your second interview with him.
I had left myself hardly time to write before tea, that is, before post time, but I reflected that it would be of no use to write tomorrow.
Yours in haste
Marian Evans.
Signature
Marian Evans.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to John Chapman, Coventry, 20 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/92783