More Unpublished George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Letters

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. For GHL’s Diaries see “George Henry Lewes’ Diary for January – March 1871,” ANQ. For Nikolaus Trübner, London agent for Brockhaus and publisher see Leslie Howsam, “Trübner, Nicholas(1817–1884)” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Haight IX:529–30.2. Thanks are due to “International Autograph Auctions Europe SL” for their helpful response to my e-mail and to Jonathan Ouvry, the copyright holder for unpublished George Eliot and George Henry Lewes letters, for his continuing generous publishing permission. Thanks, are also due to Professor Brent Kinser, eminent Carlyle scholar and the coordinating editor of The Carlyle Letters Online (Duke UP, 2007); to Philip W. Errington and Professor Patrick Scott for their assistance with the “Rare Book Hub,” the replacement to American Book Prices Current; and to Melissa Birks.3. For Charles Lee Lewes see Margaret Harris, “Charles Lewes’s Career”4. See Anonymous, The Ballantyne Press and its Founders 1796–1908.5. For Rabbi David Kaufmann see above.6. Anti-Jewish sentiment in England in the Victorian period is discussed in Andrew Gasson and William Baker “Forgotten Terrain” amongst other works including William Baker, George Eliot and Judaism, pp. 117–42, and Michael Ragussis, Figures of Conversion.7. According to Brent Kinser,-e-mail to William Baker September 20, 2023, for complex reasons Trübner called in the copies, see Kinser and David Sorenson, “[Carlyle and The Biographical Magazine]” Carlyle Studies Annual, 35 [2023–24], forthcoming]8. A copy with some penciled linings and GE’s marginal markings was at Dr Williams’s Library, Baker, The George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Library,item 1147,p.1208. Unfortunately, the Lewes-Eliot collection is no longer accessible. Information on its translator John Ferrier is scarce, cf. Haight, IX.432.