John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 22 January 1868
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 22 January 1868
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 22 January 1868
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Henry Lewes
Date(s)
- 1868-01-22
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 22 January 1868
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | January 22/68.
My Dear Lewes
I was very glad to hear that you had got back after a pleasant and successful expedition to Germany. In probing the nervous system of the human race take care that you do not overwork your own. You do work very hard but it is both nature and habit with you.
Give my best regards to Mrs. Lewes and say that I am ashamed of not having acknowledged her note. I did not see the article in [the] Daily News on the Address to the Working Men and could not get hold of it, but I can thoroughly understand what it was and Piggott's disgust at being supposed to have anything to do with it. The Press go in a string and if I were to publish a paper advocating the abolition of the Monarchy and the equal rights of man it would in the first instance be received as another ebullition of rank Toryism. It is curious how few men of mark and thought there are among the Press and if I were allowed my pick among them (which I daresay I might without any difficulty) I do not think there are half a dozen from whom I would accept a paper. Still it is wonderful with how much ability and even taste the whole thing is conducted.
In spite of the non-attention of the Press the Address has I believe told well and it has been immensely admired. I have had two applications for permission to reprint, which I have granted. Some of our Societies should have applied to me for permission to print it wholesale for distribution.
I intend to be in London early in February so I hope to see you both soon. Your news of progress in the Poem is most welcome.
I never heard of Mrs. Howther whom you found taking the German honours of George Eliot. It is more probably some accidental blunder rather than a female Liggins.
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
G. H. Lewes Esq.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | January 22/68.
My Dear Lewes
I was very glad to hear that you had got back after a pleasant and successful expedition to Germany. In probing the nervous system of the human race take care that you do not overwork your own. You do work very hard but it is both nature and habit with you.
Give my best regards to Mrs. Lewes and say that I am ashamed of not having acknowledged her note. I did not see the article in [the] Daily News on the Address to the Working Men and could not get hold of it, but I can thoroughly understand what it was and Piggott's disgust at being supposed to have anything to do with it. The Press go in a string and if I were to publish a paper advocating the abolition of the Monarchy and the equal rights of man it would in the first instance be received as another ebullition of rank Toryism. It is curious how few men of mark and thought there are among the Press and if I were allowed my pick among them (which I daresay I might without any difficulty) I do not think there are half a dozen from whom I would accept a paper. Still it is wonderful with how much ability and even taste the whole thing is conducted.
In spite of the non-attention of the Press the Address has I believe told well and it has been immensely admired. I have had two applications for permission to reprint, which I have granted. Some of our Societies should have applied to me for permission to print it wholesale for distribution.
I intend to be in London early in February so I hope to see you both soon. Your news of progress in the Poem is most welcome.
I never heard of Mrs. Howther whom you found taking the German honours of George Eliot. It is more probably some accidental blunder rather than a female Liggins.
ever yours truly
John Blackwood.
G. H. Lewes Esq.
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 22 January 1868, 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/95390