SD2937. George Eliot to John Blackwood
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 376 (in part).
The Priory, 21. North Bank,
Regents Park.
November 9. 67.
My dear Sir
About putting Fidalma in type. There would be advantages, but also disadvantages, and on these latter …
(Imagine—Browning has a poem by him which has reached 20,000 lines. Who will read it all in these busy days?)
Publication: The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight (New Haven, Conn., 1954–78), 4, 396–397.
Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.
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