John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 10 January 1861
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 10 January 1861
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 10 January 1861
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Eliot
Date(s)
- 1861-01-10
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 10 January 1861
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | January 10/61.
My Dear Madam
Your pleasant letter was very welcome. Thanks for what you so handsomely propose in regard to the current edition of the Scenes but we must take our chance with it.
I inclose memorandum of the numbers printed and stock on hand of the three books. The stock on hand of the Mill 3 vols. was swollen by our taking back some unsold copies in the hands of one or two of the Row Houses. From the length of time that had elapsed they were not entitled to this, but it was better to do it than to cause bad feeling and it would have been hard enough upon them.
I am sorry to hear that your health is not quite what could be wished, but I hope the breaking up of the frost will allow you to get exercise and become quite strong soon.
I would have written to you sooner but waited in hopes of being able to send the table of the Physiology along with the inclosed, but it is not ready yet, some details having to be queried to London. Tell Lewes that Mr. Simpson rather funks sitting down to write to him details of his objections to the little Physiology, 684 but he will try his hand when he is a little less busy.
I am glad to hear that his paper 685 is in a state of forwardness and hope to see it in a day or two.
Have you been working and on what? Pray let me hear. A letter from you is generally a cheering one, and I had very great pleasure in taking your last to the Major when I went to see him, which I usually do at one o'clock. He is still, I am sorry to say, confined to the house.
There has been no serious return of illness but he does not gain strength as we could wish. However he is decidedly better than last few days.
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
Mrs. M. E. Lewes.
[Memorandum in George Simpson's hand.]
Scenes of Clerical Life 1040 printed Apl 7. 1860 740 On hand Dec. 31
Adam Bede 1002 printed May 21. 1860 273 On hand Dec. 31
Mill on the Floss 3 vols. 504 printed May 30. 1860 365 On hand Dec. 31
Mill on the Floss 2 vols. 2016 printed Nov. 24. 1860 425 On hand Dec. 31
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | January 10/61.
My Dear Madam
Your pleasant letter was very welcome. Thanks for what you so handsomely propose in regard to the current edition of the Scenes but we must take our chance with it.
I inclose memorandum of the numbers printed and stock on hand of the three books. The stock on hand of the Mill 3 vols. was swollen by our taking back some unsold copies in the hands of one or two of the Row Houses. From the length of time that had elapsed they were not entitled to this, but it was better to do it than to cause bad feeling and it would have been hard enough upon them.
I am sorry to hear that your health is not quite what could be wished, but I hope the breaking up of the frost will allow you to get exercise and become quite strong soon.
I would have written to you sooner but waited in hopes of being able to send the table of the Physiology along with the inclosed, but it is not ready yet, some details having to be queried to London. Tell Lewes that Mr. Simpson rather funks sitting down to write to him details of his objections to the little Physiology, 684 but he will try his hand when he is a little less busy.
I am glad to hear that his paper 685 is in a state of forwardness and hope to see it in a day or two.
Have you been working and on what? Pray let me hear. A letter from you is generally a cheering one, and I had very great pleasure in taking your last to the Major when I went to see him, which I usually do at one o'clock. He is still, I am sorry to say, confined to the house.
There has been no serious return of illness but he does not gain strength as we could wish. However he is decidedly better than last few days.
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
Mrs. M. E. Lewes.
[Memorandum in George Simpson's hand.]
Scenes of Clerical Life 1040 printed Apl 7. 1860 740 On hand Dec. 31
Adam Bede 1002 printed May 21. 1860 273 On hand Dec. 31
Mill on the Floss 3 vols. 504 printed May 30. 1860 365 On hand Dec. 31
Mill on the Floss 2 vols. 2016 printed Nov. 24. 1860 425 On hand Dec. 31
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 10 January 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/95174