John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 24 February 1879
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 24 February 1879
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 24 February 1879
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Eliot
Date(s)
- 1879-02-24
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 24 February 1879
Text: Copy in Blackwood Letter Book. Hitherto unpublished.
George Street Edinburgh | February 24/79.
My dear Mrs. Lewes
Mr. Charles tells me [you] are amissing in your copy of Theophrastus Such so I inclose sheets 8 to end. I am sorry to see in his note that you are obliged to have your medical 'abmen'bb friends about you, but I anxiously hope that it is more as friends than professionally that these good advisers come to see you. Do not allow the proofs to disturb you but I think they may prove a useful distraction. Let me know exactly in what terms you would like the book announced.
The weather is I understand nearly as bad in London as here so even if well enough you will not be able to get out much. To day it is snowing with us and melting nearly as fast as it falls so that the streets are almost impassible with slush. In spite of the weather I am pretty well and have got quit of a horrid swelled face. My Nephew, although the bone of his leg has knit well and straight, is still suffering a good deal of pain from the muscles and thinks of trying a change in London next week. I hope he will, as the change is likely to be the best thing for him after his long confinement.
Fortunately we have no friends in South Africa where it is very anxious work. But will I think be all right. It will remind you of poor Thornton and Natal. What a state Lewes would have been in.
The weather has kept me off the golfing green but I hope soon to have my club in hand again. The Ladies have only been able to ride twice during the last three months and my son who expected to have a little hunting is very solemn upon the weather. He comes to 45 George Street this winter.
Laurence Oliphant whom you always take an interest in has gone out on an expedition to Palestine. There is a cry H.E.P. to Jerusalem and I imagine that Oliphant is in some manner there forerunner of work in these parts. Hamley has gone to see Rome for the first time. Lockhart has I imagine started for the continent to avoid our spring. He is very well I am happy to say.
We have a paper on Novels in the forthcoming number of the Magazine. And I hope you will like the remarks upon your works. 182 Hoping to hear from you soon with better accounts of yourself and spirits I am
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
Text: Copy in Blackwood Letter Book. Hitherto unpublished.
George Street Edinburgh | February 24/79.
My dear Mrs. Lewes
Mr. Charles tells me [you] are amissing in your copy of Theophrastus Such so I inclose sheets 8 to end. I am sorry to see in his note that you are obliged to have your medical 'abmen'bb friends about you, but I anxiously hope that it is more as friends than professionally that these good advisers come to see you. Do not allow the proofs to disturb you but I think they may prove a useful distraction. Let me know exactly in what terms you would like the book announced.
The weather is I understand nearly as bad in London as here so even if well enough you will not be able to get out much. To day it is snowing with us and melting nearly as fast as it falls so that the streets are almost impassible with slush. In spite of the weather I am pretty well and have got quit of a horrid swelled face. My Nephew, although the bone of his leg has knit well and straight, is still suffering a good deal of pain from the muscles and thinks of trying a change in London next week. I hope he will, as the change is likely to be the best thing for him after his long confinement.
Fortunately we have no friends in South Africa where it is very anxious work. But will I think be all right. It will remind you of poor Thornton and Natal. What a state Lewes would have been in.
The weather has kept me off the golfing green but I hope soon to have my club in hand again. The Ladies have only been able to ride twice during the last three months and my son who expected to have a little hunting is very solemn upon the weather. He comes to 45 George Street this winter.
Laurence Oliphant whom you always take an interest in has gone out on an expedition to Palestine. There is a cry H.E.P. to Jerusalem and I imagine that Oliphant is in some manner there forerunner of work in these parts. Hamley has gone to see Rome for the first time. Lockhart has I imagine started for the continent to avoid our spring. He is very well I am happy to say.
We have a paper on Novels in the forthcoming number of the Magazine. And I hope you will like the remarks upon your works. 182 Hoping to hear from you soon with better accounts of yourself and spirits I am
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 24 February 1879, 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/95234