GHL to Charles Edward Appleton, London, [6 February 1871]
Title
GHL to Charles Edward Appleton, London, [6 February 1871]
Title
GHL to Charles Edward Appleton, London, [6 February 1871]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Charles Edward Apple
Date(s)
- 1871-02-06
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to Charles Edward Appleton, London, [6 February 1871]
MS: Mr. J.H. Appleton. Endorsed: Lewes. Feb. 6 1871.
North Bank | Monday.
My dear Sir
I have availed myself of almost all your suggestions -- quoted some of your criticisms and modified the passages to meet others. 14 One or two points are left untouched because to discuss them would have led too far. Many thanks to you for the trouble you have taken.
May I suggest to you the desirability of your not only completing your translation of the Prop'e4deutik but rendering it available to English readers by numerous annotations of an explanatory kind? It is a work for which you are peculiarly fitted and would be a real service to the public. Stirling's book is even less intelligible than Hegel; but you have the power of re-thinking in English what Hegel has thought -- and that is what is most wanted.
I am very much disgusted with the result of my labors now I see them in proof. What is clear enough in my own mind does not stand out clearly in my exposition. I ought to have begun by an exposition of the Phenomenology, and passed onward from that. But it is now too late.
Ever yours truly
G. H. Lewes.
C. Appleton Esq.
MS: Mr. J.H. Appleton. Endorsed: Lewes. Feb. 6 1871.
North Bank | Monday.
My dear Sir
I have availed myself of almost all your suggestions -- quoted some of your criticisms and modified the passages to meet others. 14 One or two points are left untouched because to discuss them would have led too far. Many thanks to you for the trouble you have taken.
May I suggest to you the desirability of your not only completing your translation of the Prop'e4deutik but rendering it available to English readers by numerous annotations of an explanatory kind? It is a work for which you are peculiarly fitted and would be a real service to the public. Stirling's book is even less intelligible than Hegel; but you have the power of re-thinking in English what Hegel has thought -- and that is what is most wanted.
I am very much disgusted with the result of my labors now I see them in proof. What is clear enough in my own mind does not stand out clearly in my exposition. I ought to have begun by an exposition of the Phenomenology, and passed onward from that. But it is now too late.
Ever yours truly
G. H. Lewes.
C. Appleton Esq.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Charles Edward Appleton, London, [6 February 1871], 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/94447