John Blackwood to GHL, Colinsburgh, 2 September 1859
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Colinsburgh, 2 September 1859
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Colinsburgh, 2 September 1859
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Henry Lewes
Date(s)
- 1859-09-02
Place
Colinsburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GHL, Colinsburgh, 2 September 1859
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Gebliston by Colinsburgh | Fife September 2/59.
My Dear Lewes
I have the pleasure of inclosing a cheque 'a314-14/- in acknowledgment of your paper on the Will. 279
When you write let me know what you think of the other papers in the Magazine if you have read them. I always like to hear your opinion and also G.E's to whom give my best regards. Her friend Colonel Steuart arrived here the day before yesterday with 4 dogs, pointers and setters, two horses and a phaeton, an unexpected but welcome addition to our stud which makes a very lively Menagerie.
The history of the finding of the Pug is beyond price. The Colonel had been quite baffled hunting in vain for three days when he happened to go to Willesden paddocks, where he saw a stuffed Pug. Inquiring at the man in charge where it would be possible to find a live specimen, he was informed that a "gentleman" Mr. Rand in Golden Lane, St. Lukes knew more than any other man in London. The Colonel was off at once to Mr. Rand, who proved to be a carpenter not of the Adam Bede type. After a good deal of fencing he said that the landlord of Knave of Clubs, Club Lane, Bethnal Green had two pugs. The Hansom was forthwith turned on Club Lane where the Landlord was from home and the Landlady, a tremendous slasher, a match for anything short of a prize fighter, informed him that her husband never trusted the key of the cellar where the pugs were kept out of his pocket. The Colonel passed some time in agreeable badinage with this beauty and made an appointment for the following day with the husband. The Landlord of the Knave of Clubs proved a thorough man of business, and the transaction was concluded in the most formal style.
I am not doing the Colonel's narrative justice. I am sure his own account would make you shout.
How does the new Novel get on? Do you think we can start before the end of the year?
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
G. H. Lewes Esq.
Are you doing anything for Maga?
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Gebliston by Colinsburgh | Fife September 2/59.
My Dear Lewes
I have the pleasure of inclosing a cheque 'a314-14/- in acknowledgment of your paper on the Will. 279
When you write let me know what you think of the other papers in the Magazine if you have read them. I always like to hear your opinion and also G.E's to whom give my best regards. Her friend Colonel Steuart arrived here the day before yesterday with 4 dogs, pointers and setters, two horses and a phaeton, an unexpected but welcome addition to our stud which makes a very lively Menagerie.
The history of the finding of the Pug is beyond price. The Colonel had been quite baffled hunting in vain for three days when he happened to go to Willesden paddocks, where he saw a stuffed Pug. Inquiring at the man in charge where it would be possible to find a live specimen, he was informed that a "gentleman" Mr. Rand in Golden Lane, St. Lukes knew more than any other man in London. The Colonel was off at once to Mr. Rand, who proved to be a carpenter not of the Adam Bede type. After a good deal of fencing he said that the landlord of Knave of Clubs, Club Lane, Bethnal Green had two pugs. The Hansom was forthwith turned on Club Lane where the Landlord was from home and the Landlady, a tremendous slasher, a match for anything short of a prize fighter, informed him that her husband never trusted the key of the cellar where the pugs were kept out of his pocket. The Colonel passed some time in agreeable badinage with this beauty and made an appointment for the following day with the husband. The Landlord of the Knave of Clubs proved a thorough man of business, and the transaction was concluded in the most formal style.
I am not doing the Colonel's narrative justice. I am sure his own account would make you shout.
How does the new Novel get on? Do you think we can start before the end of the year?
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
G. H. Lewes Esq.
Are you doing anything for Maga?
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GHL, Colinsburgh, 2 September 1859, 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/95349