Volume 2

Letters of George Meredith / collected and edited by his son.

  • George Meredith
Date:
1912
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Credit: Letters of George Meredith / collected and edited by his son. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    My domestic political views are on t’ other side. But I share your feeling for the country, and am with you in your watchful outlook. Therefore I hail an extension of the Journal, that has an air of prosperity—or at least of a justified audacity. Much of the writing is excellent, in the tone of journalism which your supervision has always guaranteed. Often I wish to back an article—or re- monstrate. Why do you never come to me! You promised. Send word of your resolve to keep faith. I fancy that a talk here on foreign affairs, and the clash coming, and our military inefficiency, etc., would fetch a spark or two. As to the latter, pray thump on it in the enlarged Anti-J. We may thank the seas that such an Army as our present one has not to engage Bulgaria— or Servia! Midway in the 3rd volume of Marbot’s Memoirs, an instructive piece of work.—With my love to you, George Meredith. To Frederick Chapman. Box Hill, Nov. 3, 1891. Dear Fred,—Against the project of the purchase of J[ules] Simon’s book is :—^The large sum asked for a translation:— The fact that it is addressed directly to the French, and touching French rather than general conditions :— That such a subject chiefly interests cultivated persons, who prefer to read it in the original:— That it holds a balance, and does not prick the en- thusiasm of a party. In favour :—The balance is held firmly :— The writing is good, in some chapters rather lively, although too distended in some :— The conservatism will commend it to our Peers, and VOL. II.—H