John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 4 April 1877
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 4 April 1877
Title
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 4 April 1877
Sender
John Blackwood
Recipient
George Henry Lewes
Date(s)
- 1877-04-04
Place
Edinburgh
Letter Content
John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 4 April 1877
Text: Copy in Blackwood Letter Book. Hitherto unpublished.
George Street | Edinburgh April 4/77.
My Dear Lewes
I am greatly troubled to see by your letter to Simpson that Mrs. Lewes is so unwell and suffering. The weather has changed at last today and become quite mild. I sincerely hope that this will help to put her all right and that you will be able to reply to this with good accounts of her. Her pleasant letter last week followed me to North Berwick and came in most agreeably to help the change of air in cheering and doing me good.
My wife, son, and daughter went with me and we had a capital expedition from which I am thankful to say I have come back with health quite restored. North Berwick is a very pretty place with breezes blowing fresh from Noroway but I golfed doggedly on and came in daily hungry as a hunter, a sensation I had not experienced for some months. Fresh air and a change are the best of all restoratives.
My room is furnished now with every conceivable form of book for another edition of the Works of George Eliot and we intended to have a sitting on the subject today but Simpson was feeling poorly and had to go home. My thoughts turn very much to a handy handsome edition in 5/ volumes something like the two volume edition of Felix Holt.
Hoping in your next to hear that Mrs. Lewes is better I am
always yours truly
(signed) John Blackwood.
Text: Copy in Blackwood Letter Book. Hitherto unpublished.
George Street | Edinburgh April 4/77.
My Dear Lewes
I am greatly troubled to see by your letter to Simpson that Mrs. Lewes is so unwell and suffering. The weather has changed at last today and become quite mild. I sincerely hope that this will help to put her all right and that you will be able to reply to this with good accounts of her. Her pleasant letter last week followed me to North Berwick and came in most agreeably to help the change of air in cheering and doing me good.
My wife, son, and daughter went with me and we had a capital expedition from which I am thankful to say I have come back with health quite restored. North Berwick is a very pretty place with breezes blowing fresh from Noroway but I golfed doggedly on and came in daily hungry as a hunter, a sensation I had not experienced for some months. Fresh air and a change are the best of all restoratives.
My room is furnished now with every conceivable form of book for another edition of the Works of George Eliot and we intended to have a sitting on the subject today but Simpson was feeling poorly and had to go home. My thoughts turn very much to a handy handsome edition in 5/ volumes something like the two volume edition of Felix Holt.
Hoping in your next to hear that Mrs. Lewes is better I am
always yours truly
(signed) John Blackwood.
Signature
(signed) John Blackwood.
Citation
John Blackwood, John Blackwood to GHL, Edinburgh, 4 April 1877, 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/95417