GHL to Charles Robert Darwin, London, 30 July 1868
Title
GHL to Charles Robert Darwin, London, 30 July 1868
Title
GHL to Charles Robert Darwin, London, 30 July 1868
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Charles Robert Darwin
Date(s)
- 1868-07-30
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to Charles Robert Darwin, London, 30 July 1868
MS: Cambridge University Library.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
0 July 68.
My dear Mr. Darwin
It quite distresses me to think of your forced idleness and I reproach myself for having inconsiderately asked you to bother yourself over my papers. Pray consider my request withdrawn -- at any rate so far withdrawn as not to involve a moment's interruption of your idleness or of any other work. Since it must be a long while before my work can be prepared, even after the articles are finished, there is no necessity for you to fix any time for marginalia.
When I was in Freiburg Dr. Weismann 792 -- one of the hopes of zoology -- delivered an Eintritt's Vorrede on your views, which excited great sensation. I was not present at it, but he told me the line he was going to adopt and shortly we shall have it in print. Poor fellow! he nearly lost his sight with microscopic excesses -- What asses we are, we who ought to know and do know (for others) the penalties of overwork! Believe me
Very sincerely yours
G. H. Lewes.
MS: Cambridge University Library.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
0 July 68.
My dear Mr. Darwin
It quite distresses me to think of your forced idleness and I reproach myself for having inconsiderately asked you to bother yourself over my papers. Pray consider my request withdrawn -- at any rate so far withdrawn as not to involve a moment's interruption of your idleness or of any other work. Since it must be a long while before my work can be prepared, even after the articles are finished, there is no necessity for you to fix any time for marginalia.
When I was in Freiburg Dr. Weismann 792 -- one of the hopes of zoology -- delivered an Eintritt's Vorrede on your views, which excited great sensation. I was not present at it, but he told me the line he was going to adopt and shortly we shall have it in print. Poor fellow! he nearly lost his sight with microscopic excesses -- What asses we are, we who ought to know and do know (for others) the penalties of overwork! Believe me
Very sincerely yours
G. H. Lewes.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Charles Robert Darwin, London, 30 July 1868, 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/94486