GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 18 October 1877
Title
GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 18 October 1877
Title
GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 18 October 1877
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
William Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1877-10-18
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 18 October 1877
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Heights | Witley | October 18. 77.
My dear Mr. William
It was pleasant to see your nice handwriting again. Thanks for the copy of the subscription list, which seems encouraging.
The parcel of (4) copies 747 is come, and I am well satisfied with the sobriety and clear lettering of the volume. The compact form is very welcome to me for my own behoof. Naturally, we did not bring copies of my own books in our small cargo, and I have often been wanting a "Deronda".
We are rather sorry to think that we shall be in the murky air of town again on the 30th., the air here entering into one's consciousness as some mysterious source of good spirits. I hope you will happen to be on a visit to England next year during the time of our [villeggiatura,] so that you may come and see our beautiful bit of country.
On the 25th we move from this house to leave the servants time for emptying it of our [bits o] things' and getting them in order in their old places at the Priory. So that after the 25th proofs or anything else should be addressed to me in London.
Yes, we are having delicious autumnal skies -- a sharp air, though, and our share of the storms blowing off our tiles with a thunderous sound that made us imagine the chimney was falling.
I hope that, in spite of the unkind season in the North, you have been having some pleasant holidays. But I imagine that the sort of holiday you care most for begins in November.
[The rest of this letter has been cut away.]
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
The Heights | Witley | October 18. 77.
My dear Mr. William
It was pleasant to see your nice handwriting again. Thanks for the copy of the subscription list, which seems encouraging.
The parcel of (4) copies 747 is come, and I am well satisfied with the sobriety and clear lettering of the volume. The compact form is very welcome to me for my own behoof. Naturally, we did not bring copies of my own books in our small cargo, and I have often been wanting a "Deronda".
We are rather sorry to think that we shall be in the murky air of town again on the 30th., the air here entering into one's consciousness as some mysterious source of good spirits. I hope you will happen to be on a visit to England next year during the time of our [villeggiatura,] so that you may come and see our beautiful bit of country.
On the 25th we move from this house to leave the servants time for emptying it of our [bits o] things' and getting them in order in their old places at the Priory. So that after the 25th proofs or anything else should be addressed to me in London.
Yes, we are having delicious autumnal skies -- a sharp air, though, and our share of the storms blowing off our tiles with a thunderous sound that made us imagine the chimney was falling.
I hope that, in spite of the unkind season in the North, you have been having some pleasant holidays. But I imagine that the sort of holiday you care most for begins in November.
[The rest of this letter has been cut away.]
Citation
George Eliot, GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 18 October 1877, 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/94215