GHL to John Chapman, Wandsworth, [12 February 1859]
Title
GHL to John Chapman, Wandsworth, [12 February 1859]
Title
GHL to John Chapman, Wandsworth, [12 February 1859]
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
John Chapman
Date(s)
- 1859-02-12
Place
Wandsworth
Letter Content
GHL to John Chapman, Wandsworth, [12 February 1859]
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Published: George Eliot and John Chapman, p. 102.
Holly Lodge, 20 Wimbledon Park, | Wandsworth, Saturday.
My dear Chapman,
Not to notice your transparent allusion in your last, would be improperly to admit its truth. After the previous correspondence, your continuing to impute those works to Mrs. Lewes may be meant as a compliment, but is an offence against delicacy and friendship. As you seem so very slow in appreciating her feelings on this point, she authorizes me to state, as distinctly as language can do so, that she is not the author of "Adam Bede."
Yours faithfully,
G. H. Lewes.
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Published: George Eliot and John Chapman, p. 102.
Holly Lodge, 20 Wimbledon Park, | Wandsworth, Saturday.
My dear Chapman,
Not to notice your transparent allusion in your last, would be improperly to admit its truth. After the previous correspondence, your continuing to impute those works to Mrs. Lewes may be meant as a compliment, but is an offence against delicacy and friendship. As you seem so very slow in appreciating her feelings on this point, she authorizes me to state, as distinctly as language can do so, that she is not the author of "Adam Bede."
Yours faithfully,
G. H. Lewes.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to John Chapman, Wandsworth, [12 February 1859], 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/94825