GHL to John Blackwood, Ragatz, 17 July 1876
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, Ragatz, 17 July 1876
Title
GHL to John Blackwood, Ragatz, 17 July 1876
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
John Blackwood
Date(s)
- 1876-07-17
Place
Ragatz
Letter Content
GHL to John Blackwood, Ragatz, 17 July 1876
Text: John Blackwood, pp. 396-397.
Hof Ragatz, 17th July 1876.
Your pleasant and welcome letter found us both greatly improved in health and spirits by our stay here. Mrs. Lewes is quite another woman, and is recovering her colour and contour -- not before they were wanted. Her appetite is good, and we walk four hours amid the woods and up the easy mountain-sides -- bathe, eat, read, and idle -- "letting the world fleet by as in the golden time." 513 Not a single word have we exchanged with any one above the rank of a waiter or shopkeeper -- and don't miss the "charms of society," about which some people talk so glibly as indispensable to existence. In the woods of a morning she has taken to instruct me in Hebrew, 514 and we waken the echoes with our laughter sometimes at my blunders and attempts at Israelitish eloquence!
Mrs. Lewes desires her very best remembrances to all (with especial thanks to Willie for his agreeable note), and hopes you have been enjoying your trip into the Highlands. I have had some notion of going there too when we come back, and visiting the Brit. Association at Glasgow, but this is at present very vague.
Text: John Blackwood, pp. 396-397.
Hof Ragatz, 17th July 1876.
Your pleasant and welcome letter found us both greatly improved in health and spirits by our stay here. Mrs. Lewes is quite another woman, and is recovering her colour and contour -- not before they were wanted. Her appetite is good, and we walk four hours amid the woods and up the easy mountain-sides -- bathe, eat, read, and idle -- "letting the world fleet by as in the golden time." 513 Not a single word have we exchanged with any one above the rank of a waiter or shopkeeper -- and don't miss the "charms of society," about which some people talk so glibly as indispensable to existence. In the woods of a morning she has taken to instruct me in Hebrew, 514 and we waken the echoes with our laughter sometimes at my blunders and attempts at Israelitish eloquence!
Mrs. Lewes desires her very best remembrances to all (with especial thanks to Willie for his agreeable note), and hopes you have been enjoying your trip into the Highlands. I have had some notion of going there too when we come back, and visiting the Brit. Association at Glasgow, but this is at present very vague.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to John Blackwood, Ragatz, 17 July 1876, 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/94712