John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 9 December 1858
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 9 December 1858
Title
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 9 December 1858
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Eliot
Date(s)
- 1858-12-09
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 9 December 1858
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | December 9/58.
My Dear Sir
I inclose cheque £30 being the amount received today from Tauchnitz for the right of translation 1241 in German. Williams and Norgate's was a cheque on a Scotch Bank which would have been charged with commission in London, so I send one of our own on Coutts instead.
It struck me as very possible that a divan would sit upon your signature at Williams and Norgate's so I got another copy of the Vertrag and made them be contented with my signature.
In regard to America for Adam Mr. Langford has seen Low and Co. who wish us to name a price. Shall we say £50, although I doubt whether we will get more than £30. Lewes may as well see Langford about it.
I have been quite vexed about the delay in the printing, but it was one of those unexpected fixes which will arise in the best regulated establishments. I am thankful to say that we have now got a release of Type and your Bedes or rather pearls will be strung as fast as you could wish now. I expect to have the whole in Type by the end of the year so that in reality no time will have been lost.
Sampson Low, 1242 the American agent, asked to see some of the sheets of Adam, but I consider this a farce.
Lewes asked about a new edition of Alison's Physiology. 1243 I am sorry to say that there is no prospect of such a thing, as the excellent old Doctor is shattered by repeated seizures of paralysis. No man ever devoted himself to good of the poor more heartily than he. He abandoned what would have been the leading practise in Edinburgh to toil perpetually in the lanes and wynds of the High St and Cannongate. I suppose L. has the old edition. If not I will give it to him.
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
George Eliot Esq.
I was sorry to hear that there had been some prying into your incognito. Keep your secret all you can. I shall do everything in my power to divert suspicion if I see any one getting on the scent.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | December 9/58.
My Dear Sir
I inclose cheque £30 being the amount received today from Tauchnitz for the right of translation 1241 in German. Williams and Norgate's was a cheque on a Scotch Bank which would have been charged with commission in London, so I send one of our own on Coutts instead.
It struck me as very possible that a divan would sit upon your signature at Williams and Norgate's so I got another copy of the Vertrag and made them be contented with my signature.
In regard to America for Adam Mr. Langford has seen Low and Co. who wish us to name a price. Shall we say £50, although I doubt whether we will get more than £30. Lewes may as well see Langford about it.
I have been quite vexed about the delay in the printing, but it was one of those unexpected fixes which will arise in the best regulated establishments. I am thankful to say that we have now got a release of Type and your Bedes or rather pearls will be strung as fast as you could wish now. I expect to have the whole in Type by the end of the year so that in reality no time will have been lost.
Sampson Low, 1242 the American agent, asked to see some of the sheets of Adam, but I consider this a farce.
Lewes asked about a new edition of Alison's Physiology. 1243 I am sorry to say that there is no prospect of such a thing, as the excellent old Doctor is shattered by repeated seizures of paralysis. No man ever devoted himself to good of the poor more heartily than he. He abandoned what would have been the leading practise in Edinburgh to toil perpetually in the lanes and wynds of the High St and Cannongate. I suppose L. has the old edition. If not I will give it to him.
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
George Eliot Esq.
I was sorry to hear that there had been some prying into your incognito. Keep your secret all you can. I shall do everything in my power to divert suspicion if I see any one getting on the scent.
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GE, Edinburgh, 9 December 1858, 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/95297