GHL to Lord Amberley, London, 4 August 1870
Title
GHL to Lord Amberley, London, 4 August 1870
Title
GHL to Lord Amberley, London, 4 August 1870
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Lord Amberley
Date(s)
- 1870-08-04
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to Lord Amberley, London, 4 August 1870
MS: The Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
August 1870.
My dear Lord
I cannot say that I shall not regret your decision if you stick to it, since I should like to see those very suggestive papers republished. At the same time I thoroughly sympathize with every author's disinclination to go back upon his work and [uncrop the cask.] It is a wearisome and distasteful business -- especially when fresh work &unknown;falling to&unknown; claims attention. (I am groaning under that task just now with the 4th edition of the Hist[ory] of Phil[osophy] thrusting itself between me and pleasanter work.) But your lordship may decide to republish, or to leave the matter as it stands, without further reference to Chapman. 920 My arrangement with him, on your lordship's behalf, was simply that if you chose to republish the essays, he was to bear the expence and pay you half the profits. If you never stir a step in the matter he is under no disadvantage beyond that of not 921 having you among his authors. And as you may perhaps at some future time like to republish them, I should suggest that the matter be left precisely as it now stands. Should this suggestion not meet your views I will at once communicate your decision to Chapman and put an end to all expectation on his side.
I cannot understand Morley's cavalier disregard of the well merited honorarium. 922 If he could not afford to pay for articles he should at least have stated as much before printing them.
We envy you your purchase 923 in that charming district and doubt not that the two great points of health and study will be all the better, though your friends will be all the poorer for your absence from this horrible London. We have been away five months out of this year and are off again on Monday to a little Farm in Surrey where we shall rusticate till September.
Mrs. Lewes begs me to offer her kind remembrances to Lady Amberley and yourself, and I remain My dear Lord
Your lordship's faithful Servant
G. H. Lewes.
MS: The Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University.
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
August 1870.
My dear Lord
I cannot say that I shall not regret your decision if you stick to it, since I should like to see those very suggestive papers republished. At the same time I thoroughly sympathize with every author's disinclination to go back upon his work and [uncrop the cask.] It is a wearisome and distasteful business -- especially when fresh work &unknown;falling to&unknown; claims attention. (I am groaning under that task just now with the 4th edition of the Hist[ory] of Phil[osophy] thrusting itself between me and pleasanter work.) But your lordship may decide to republish, or to leave the matter as it stands, without further reference to Chapman. 920 My arrangement with him, on your lordship's behalf, was simply that if you chose to republish the essays, he was to bear the expence and pay you half the profits. If you never stir a step in the matter he is under no disadvantage beyond that of not 921 having you among his authors. And as you may perhaps at some future time like to republish them, I should suggest that the matter be left precisely as it now stands. Should this suggestion not meet your views I will at once communicate your decision to Chapman and put an end to all expectation on his side.
I cannot understand Morley's cavalier disregard of the well merited honorarium. 922 If he could not afford to pay for articles he should at least have stated as much before printing them.
We envy you your purchase 923 in that charming district and doubt not that the two great points of health and study will be all the better, though your friends will be all the poorer for your absence from this horrible London. We have been away five months out of this year and are off again on Monday to a little Farm in Surrey where we shall rusticate till September.
Mrs. Lewes begs me to offer her kind remembrances to Lady Amberley and yourself, and I remain My dear Lord
Your lordship's faithful Servant
G. H. Lewes.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Lord Amberley, London, 4 August 1870, 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/94868