John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 20 May 1862
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 20 May 1862
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 20 May 1862
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Eliot
Date(s)
- 1862-05-20
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 20 May 1862
MS: National Library of Scotland. Published: John Blackwood, p. 80.
Edinburgh | May 20/62.
My Dear Madam
I am of course sorry that your new Novel is not to come out under the old colours but I am glad to hear that you have made so satisfactory an arrangement.
Hearing of the wild sums that were being offered to writers of much inferior mark to you, I thought it highly probable that offers would be made to you, and I can readily imagine that you are to receive such a price as I could not make remunerative by any machinery that I could resort to.
Rest assured that I feel fully satisfied of the extreme reluctance with which you would decide upon leaving your old friend for any other publisher, however great the pecuniary consideration might be, and it would destroy my pleasure in business if I knew any friend was publishing with me when he thought he could do better for himself by going elsewhere. We have had several most successful enterprises together and much pleasant correspondence and I hope we shall have much more. 68
In a few days we go to Derbyshire where we leave the children with their aunts and intend to move on London about the end of next week. I hope therefore to see you soon and trust I shall find you in good health and spirits with your work progressing.
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
Mrs. Lewes.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Published: John Blackwood, p. 80.
Edinburgh | May 20/62.
My Dear Madam
I am of course sorry that your new Novel is not to come out under the old colours but I am glad to hear that you have made so satisfactory an arrangement.
Hearing of the wild sums that were being offered to writers of much inferior mark to you, I thought it highly probable that offers would be made to you, and I can readily imagine that you are to receive such a price as I could not make remunerative by any machinery that I could resort to.
Rest assured that I feel fully satisfied of the extreme reluctance with which you would decide upon leaving your old friend for any other publisher, however great the pecuniary consideration might be, and it would destroy my pleasure in business if I knew any friend was publishing with me when he thought he could do better for himself by going elsewhere. We have had several most successful enterprises together and much pleasant correspondence and I hope we shall have much more. 68
In a few days we go to Derbyshire where we leave the children with their aunts and intend to move on London about the end of next week. I hope therefore to see you soon and trust I shall find you in good health and spirits with your work progressing.
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
Mrs. Lewes.
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 20 May 1862, 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/95218