George Combe to GE, Edinburgh, 3 March 1854
Title
George Combe to GE, Edinburgh, 3 March 1854
Title
George Combe to GE, Edinburgh, 3 March 1854
Sender
George Combe
Recipient
George Eliot
Date(s)
- 1854-03-03
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
George Combe to GE, Edinburgh, 3 March 1854
MS: Copy in Combe Letter Book, National Library of Scotland.
Edinburgh | 3 March 1854.
Miss Evans -- 21 Cambridge Street
My dear Miss Evans
My heart is grieved at the annoyance and trouble I am giving you, but it is in a good cause. Mr. Chapman has agreed to insert the article in the April number and I now send you the Proof, with the Passages to be kept in and omitted to constitute the article, marked by me in pencil on the margins. You will soon judge whether the article will read continuously; and you can have little difficulty in adding a few connecting sentences if necessary. -- I presume that you will get a clean proof with all the corrections made. I have made corrections on this proof on pages 62 and 92, which please transfer to the corrected proof, in so far as that on page 62 is not already there. Page 62 is not in it, and is necessary to avoid cavilling.
I have written to Mr. Perry, and you will not wait for him or any of the others longer than suits Mr. Chapman's convenience. I shall run all risks rather than incommode him. I shall write also to Sir Jas. Clark explaining how things stand, but this need not interfere with the action of himself and friends, for the pamphlet will not be published for a month, and their opinions, if given, can be thrown off with the title page, and table of contents, which I now send. There will also be some advertisements at the end, which I shall send. I have ordered 500 copies of the Pamphlet to be printed. I regret that I cannot give it to Mr. Chapman as publisher, but I have told him so.
With our united kindest regards, I remain, My dear Miss Evans
Sincerely yours and obliged
Geo. Combe.
MS: Copy in Combe Letter Book, National Library of Scotland.
Edinburgh | 3 March 1854.
Miss Evans -- 21 Cambridge Street
My dear Miss Evans
My heart is grieved at the annoyance and trouble I am giving you, but it is in a good cause. Mr. Chapman has agreed to insert the article in the April number and I now send you the Proof, with the Passages to be kept in and omitted to constitute the article, marked by me in pencil on the margins. You will soon judge whether the article will read continuously; and you can have little difficulty in adding a few connecting sentences if necessary. -- I presume that you will get a clean proof with all the corrections made. I have made corrections on this proof on pages 62 and 92, which please transfer to the corrected proof, in so far as that on page 62 is not already there. Page 62 is not in it, and is necessary to avoid cavilling.
I have written to Mr. Perry, and you will not wait for him or any of the others longer than suits Mr. Chapman's convenience. I shall run all risks rather than incommode him. I shall write also to Sir Jas. Clark explaining how things stand, but this need not interfere with the action of himself and friends, for the pamphlet will not be published for a month, and their opinions, if given, can be thrown off with the title page, and table of contents, which I now send. There will also be some advertisements at the end, which I shall send. I have ordered 500 copies of the Pamphlet to be printed. I regret that I cannot give it to Mr. Chapman as publisher, but I have told him so.
With our united kindest regards, I remain, My dear Miss Evans
Sincerely yours and obliged
Geo. Combe.
Signature
Geo. Combe.
Citation
George Combe, George Combe to GE, Edinburgh, 3 March 1854, 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/94242