Reproduced by courtesy of the
The year 1861 is written on the top of the letter in an unknown hand.
Our aim in this edition has been to transcribe the content of the letters as accurately as possible without reproducing the physical appearance of the manuscript. Craik’s spelling, punctuation, underlining, superscripts, abbreviations, additions and deletions are retained, except for words which are hyphenated at the end of a line, which we have silently emended. Where Craik uses a non-standard spelling, we have encoded both her spelling and the standard Oxford English Dictionary spelling to facilitate searching. The long s is not encoded.
I return
Thanks for such a bundle of
How is your
I so enjoyed my quiet dinner & chat with you both. –