GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 3 September 1879
Title
GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 3 September 1879
Title
GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 3 September 1879
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
William Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1879-09-03
Place
Witley
Letter Content
GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 3 September 1879
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 376-377.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
September 3. 79.
My dear Mr. William
I am much obliged to you for writing me your letter of pleasant news. It is wonderful how Theophrastus goes on selling in these bad times, and I have only to hope in addition that the buyers will be the better for it. Apparently we shall get through this last edition before Christmas, and then perhaps you will think of adding the volume to the Cabinet edition.
I am especially rejoiced to hear that your Uncle is better again, and I trust that Strathtyrum is sharing our sunshine which will be the best cure for him as for me. I am getting strong and also am gaining flesh on my moderate scale.
It really makes a difference to one's spirits to think that the harvest may now possibly be got in without utter ruin to the produce and unhappy producers. But this year will certainly prove a serious epoch and initiate many changes in relation to farming. I fear from what I have read that the rich Lothians will have to be called compassionately the poor Lothians. 314
By the way, if you happen to want any translation done from the French and have not just the right person to do it, I think I can recommend a Miss Bradley Jenkins of 50 Cornwall Road, Westbourne Park, as one who has an unusually competent knowledge of French. We sat side by side on the same form translating Miss Edgeworth into French when we were girls. I have not seen her for many years, but I know that she has been engaged in a high order of teaching and I have lately heard from her that she is anxious to get work of the kind in question. She already spoke French well when we were pupils together, and she has since been an unintermitting student. But who has work sufficient for all candidates?
I wonder, talking of translators, how the young Mr. Ferrier is going on -- who translated Kaufmann's pamphlet on Deronda. What Mr. Blackwood told me of him interested me about his future.
Oblige us all by not falling into another accident when the next hunting season comes and believe me
Yours very sincerely
M. E. Lewes.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Extracts published: Cross, III, 376-377.
The Heights, Witley, | Nr. Godalming.
September 3. 79.
My dear Mr. William
I am much obliged to you for writing me your letter of pleasant news. It is wonderful how Theophrastus goes on selling in these bad times, and I have only to hope in addition that the buyers will be the better for it. Apparently we shall get through this last edition before Christmas, and then perhaps you will think of adding the volume to the Cabinet edition.
I am especially rejoiced to hear that your Uncle is better again, and I trust that Strathtyrum is sharing our sunshine which will be the best cure for him as for me. I am getting strong and also am gaining flesh on my moderate scale.
It really makes a difference to one's spirits to think that the harvest may now possibly be got in without utter ruin to the produce and unhappy producers. But this year will certainly prove a serious epoch and initiate many changes in relation to farming. I fear from what I have read that the rich Lothians will have to be called compassionately the poor Lothians. 314
By the way, if you happen to want any translation done from the French and have not just the right person to do it, I think I can recommend a Miss Bradley Jenkins of 50 Cornwall Road, Westbourne Park, as one who has an unusually competent knowledge of French. We sat side by side on the same form translating Miss Edgeworth into French when we were girls. I have not seen her for many years, but I know that she has been engaged in a high order of teaching and I have lately heard from her that she is anxious to get work of the kind in question. She already spoke French well when we were pupils together, and she has since been an unintermitting student. But who has work sufficient for all candidates?
I wonder, talking of translators, how the young Mr. Ferrier is going on -- who translated Kaufmann's pamphlet on Deronda. What Mr. Blackwood told me of him interested me about his future.
Oblige us all by not falling into another accident when the next hunting season comes and believe me
Yours very sincerely
M. E. Lewes.
Signature
M. E. Lewes.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to William Blackwood, Witley, 3 September 1879, 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/94218