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SD2869.  George Henry Lewes to George Murray Smith

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 356 (in part).

Biarritz, in a storm,

26 January 1867.

My dear Smith

You must not suppose that I mean to inflict on you, busy man that you are, the bore of a reply, but I know …

Biarritz … surpasses all expectations. Indeed until the Brownings spoke of it to us we had no conception of its being so beautiful a place.

Publication: The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight (New Haven, Conn., 1954–78), 8, 395–396.

Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.

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