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June 4,

“My dear Mr. Blackwood,—As it seems my statement that Mr. Liggins is not the author of Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede is by certain persons flatly contradicted, I wish you would add the weight of your testimony to the truth of what I have stated.

“It is the more painful to me that Mr. Liggins, or any one else should be receiving charitable donations on the ground that your treatment of me has not been sufficiently liberal, because I, for my part, can only wish that every author had equal reason to be satisfied with his publisher.

“If those benevolent persons who persist in attributing the authorship of the works In question to Mr. Liggins will induce Mr. Liggins to write one chapter of a story, that chapter may possibly do what my denial has failed to do.

“Yours most sincerely, “To John Blackwood, Esq.” “GEORGE ELIOT.