GHL to Henry George Bohn, Ilfracombe, 15 June 1856
Title
GHL to Henry George Bohn, Ilfracombe, 15 June 1856
Title
GHL to Henry George Bohn, Ilfracombe, 15 June 1856
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Henry George Bohn
Date(s)
- 1856-06-15
Place
Ilfracombe
Letter Content
GHL to Henry George Bohn, Ilfracombe, 15 June 1856
MS: Yale. Extract published: Haight, George Eliot, p. 200.
(Copy)
Runnymede Villa | Ilfracombe.
5 June 1856.
Sir
From the tenor of your insulting letter of the 13th June I presume you are so accustomed to have your own word disbelieved that you have grown reckless in expressing your disbelief of the word of others. As I am not accustomed to have mine doubted, and moreover as I altogether decline to have transactions with a man who shows such wonderful facility in forgetting and such persistency in denying his own written agreement as you show in your letters, I beg you will send back my m.s. and consider the whole business at an end between us. If the m.s. be sent to me at the | Office of the Leader | 352 Strand | I will -- on hearing of its safe arrival -- send you back the written agreement, and so terminate all matters between us. 293
Your obedient servant
G. H. L.
MS: Yale. Extract published: Haight, George Eliot, p. 200.
(Copy)
Runnymede Villa | Ilfracombe.
5 June 1856.
Sir
From the tenor of your insulting letter of the 13th June I presume you are so accustomed to have your own word disbelieved that you have grown reckless in expressing your disbelief of the word of others. As I am not accustomed to have mine doubted, and moreover as I altogether decline to have transactions with a man who shows such wonderful facility in forgetting and such persistency in denying his own written agreement as you show in your letters, I beg you will send back my m.s. and consider the whole business at an end between us. If the m.s. be sent to me at the | Office of the Leader | 352 Strand | I will -- on hearing of its safe arrival -- send you back the written agreement, and so terminate all matters between us. 293
Your obedient servant
G. H. L.
Signature
G. H. L.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Henry George Bohn, Ilfracombe, 15 June 1856, 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/94558