John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 30 March 1859
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 30 March 1859
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 30 March 1859
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Henry Lewes
Date(s)
- 1859-03-30
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 30 March 1859
Text: Blackwood Letter Book, National Library of Scotland.
Edinburgh | March 30th/59.
My Dear Lewes
I enclose a letter for G.E. with continued good accounts of Adam. I am curious to know how he likes the Magazine paper. I was so overwhelmed with M.S.S. this month that I had nothing for it but to postpone the Ponds which will not become stale by the delay.
Stereos from the cuts in the Physiology are being taken for Brockhaus and duplicates will be done at once from the rest of the cuts. How had we best send these as well as the two copies of the book?
Do you ever see anything of Professor Owen now? I sometimes think of a paper on him and his discoveries. I am afraid you would be too heathenish for me. I was remembered of him today by receiving a sort of Abstract of a lecture of his on the Gorilla 437 one of these confounded monkey tribes so disgustingly like ourselves. I know very little of Owen but what I do I admire very much. Scientific men are so often either too dull or too trifling, but he is entirely free from any of these faults.
ever yours truly,
John Blackwood.
G. H. Lewes Esq.
Text: Blackwood Letter Book, National Library of Scotland.
Edinburgh | March 30th/59.
My Dear Lewes
I enclose a letter for G.E. with continued good accounts of Adam. I am curious to know how he likes the Magazine paper. I was so overwhelmed with M.S.S. this month that I had nothing for it but to postpone the Ponds which will not become stale by the delay.
Stereos from the cuts in the Physiology are being taken for Brockhaus and duplicates will be done at once from the rest of the cuts. How had we best send these as well as the two copies of the book?
Do you ever see anything of Professor Owen now? I sometimes think of a paper on him and his discoveries. I am afraid you would be too heathenish for me. I was remembered of him today by receiving a sort of Abstract of a lecture of his on the Gorilla 437 one of these confounded monkey tribes so disgustingly like ourselves. I know very little of Owen but what I do I admire very much. Scientific men are so often either too dull or too trifling, but he is entirely free from any of these faults.
ever yours truly,
John Blackwood.
G. H. Lewes Esq.
Signature
John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 30 March 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/95415