GHL to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 9 December 1861
Title
GHL to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 9 December 1861
Title
GHL to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 9 December 1861
Sender
George Henry Lewes
Recipient
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Date(s)
- 1861-12-09
Place
London
Letter Content
GHL to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 9 December 1861
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Published: T. A. Trollope, What I Remember, 2d ed., 2 vols., 1887, II, 307-309.
Blandford Square, N.W. | 9 December 1861.
Dear good people
If your ears burn as often as you are talked about in this house, there must be an unpleasant amount of aural circulation to endure! And as the constant refrain is "really we must write to them, that they may not altogether slip away from us" I have this morning screwed my procrastination to the writing desk. 882
First and foremost let us known how you are, and what were the results of the bathing? Then a word as to the new novel, 883 and any other work, will be acceptable. I lend about La Beata in all good quarters, and always hear "golden opinions from all sorts of people." -- Of course you hear from Anthony. Is he prosperous and enjoying his trip? The book will have an enormous sale just now; but I fancy he will find more animosity and less friendliness than he expected, to judge from the state of exasperation against the Britisher which seems to be general. 884
We have been pursuing the "even baritone (I wish I could say '91tenor'92) 885 of our way." My health became seriously alarming in September so we went off to Malvern for a fortnight, and there the mountain air, exercise and regular diet set me up, so that I have been in better training for work than I have been for a long while. Polly has not been strong, yet not materially amiss; but as she will add a postscript to this I shall leave her to speak for herself.
In your (T.A.T.) book huntings, if you could lay your hand on a copy of Hermolaus Barbarus: 886 Compendium Scientiae naturalis 887 1553, or any of Telesio's 888 works, think of me, and pounce on them. I was going to bother you about the new edition of Galileo, but fortunately I fell in with the Milan edition cheap, and contented myself with that. Do you know what there is new in the Florentine ed.? 889 I suppose you possess it, as you do so many enviable books.
We heard the other day that Miss Blagden 890 had come to stay in London for the winter; and Polly sent a message to her to say how glad we should be to see her. If she comes, she will bring us some accounts of the casa Trollope.
When you next pass Giotto's tower salute it for me; it is one of my dearest Florentines, and is always beckoning me to come back.
Ever your faithful friend
G. H. Lewes.
MS: Parrish Collection, Princeton. Published: T. A. Trollope, What I Remember, 2d ed., 2 vols., 1887, II, 307-309.
Blandford Square, N.W. | 9 December 1861.
Dear good people
If your ears burn as often as you are talked about in this house, there must be an unpleasant amount of aural circulation to endure! And as the constant refrain is "really we must write to them, that they may not altogether slip away from us" I have this morning screwed my procrastination to the writing desk. 882
First and foremost let us known how you are, and what were the results of the bathing? Then a word as to the new novel, 883 and any other work, will be acceptable. I lend about La Beata in all good quarters, and always hear "golden opinions from all sorts of people." -- Of course you hear from Anthony. Is he prosperous and enjoying his trip? The book will have an enormous sale just now; but I fancy he will find more animosity and less friendliness than he expected, to judge from the state of exasperation against the Britisher which seems to be general. 884
We have been pursuing the "even baritone (I wish I could say '91tenor'92) 885 of our way." My health became seriously alarming in September so we went off to Malvern for a fortnight, and there the mountain air, exercise and regular diet set me up, so that I have been in better training for work than I have been for a long while. Polly has not been strong, yet not materially amiss; but as she will add a postscript to this I shall leave her to speak for herself.
In your (T.A.T.) book huntings, if you could lay your hand on a copy of Hermolaus Barbarus: 886 Compendium Scientiae naturalis 887 1553, or any of Telesio's 888 works, think of me, and pounce on them. I was going to bother you about the new edition of Galileo, but fortunately I fell in with the Milan edition cheap, and contented myself with that. Do you know what there is new in the Florentine ed.? 889 I suppose you possess it, as you do so many enviable books.
We heard the other day that Miss Blagden 890 had come to stay in London for the winter; and Polly sent a message to her to say how glad we should be to see her. If she comes, she will bring us some accounts of the casa Trollope.
When you next pass Giotto's tower salute it for me; it is one of my dearest Florentines, and is always beckoning me to come back.
Ever your faithful friend
G. H. Lewes.
Signature
G. H. Lewes.
Citation
George Henry Lewes, GHL to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, London, 9 December 1861, 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/94924