John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 24 April 1866
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 24 April 1866
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 24 April 1866
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Henry Lewes
Date(s)
- 1866-04-24
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 24 April 1866
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | April 24/66.
My Dear Lewes
I inclose formal offer for Felix Holt which our previous correspondence leads me to believe will be accepted. I would write a long letter but from various causes I only got the two volumes finished about an hour ago and it is now close upon post time.
I am lost in wonder and admiration of Mrs. Lewes' powers. It is not like a Novel and there may be a complaint of want of the ordinary Novel interest, but it is like looking on at a series of panoramas where human beings speak and act before us. There is hardly a page where there is not some turn of expression, witty or wise or both which one loves to dwell upon, but there is no time to write more.
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
G. H. Lewes Esq.
MS: National Library of Scotland. Hitherto unpublished.
Edinburgh | April 24/66.
My Dear Lewes
I inclose formal offer for Felix Holt which our previous correspondence leads me to believe will be accepted. I would write a long letter but from various causes I only got the two volumes finished about an hour ago and it is now close upon post time.
I am lost in wonder and admiration of Mrs. Lewes' powers. It is not like a Novel and there may be a complaint of want of the ordinary Novel interest, but it is like looking on at a series of panoramas where human beings speak and act before us. There is hardly a page where there is not some turn of expression, witty or wise or both which one loves to dwell upon, but there is no time to write more.
always yours truly
John Blackwood.
G. H. Lewes Esq.
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 24 April 1866, 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/95397