Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 May 1859.

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                <opener><dateline><placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Wareham">Wareham –
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                <p>I hope you will not call at <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Wildwood"
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                <p>Would it suit you to pay me a visit on Friday <date when="1859-06-03">June 3<hi
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                            >2<hi rend="superscript">nd</hi></date>). Which suits you best? – I have
                    besides the pelasure of making your acquaintaince, one or two business matters
                    to speak to you about. If you would "come to tea" – in our old-fashioned way.
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 May 1859. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription 2 March 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding 9 March 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding 23 March 2017 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: April 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the New York Public Library.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive New York Public Library Berg Collection Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Collection of Papers Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 May 1859. Folder 67B2875

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.
Wareham – Dorset My dear Sir,

I hope you will not call at Wildwood during my absence which however is but short.

Would it suit you to pay me a visit on Friday June 3rd (or Thursday 2nd ). Which suits you best? – I have besides the pelasure of making your acquaintaince, one or two business matters to speak to you about. If you would "come to tea" – in our old-fashioned way. 6P.M. – my brother would be at home - & would be happy to see you.

Yours very truly, DMulock May 18th

I think you said you were in town almost every Thursday or Friday – I therefore name those days.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 May 1859. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription 2 March 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding 9 March 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding 23 March 2017 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: April 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the New York Public Library.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive New York Public Library Berg Collection Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Collection of Papers Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 May 1859. Folder 67B2875

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.
Wareham – Dorset My dear Sir,

I hope you will not call at Wildwood during my absence which however is but short.

Would it suit you to pay me a visit on Friday June 3rd (or Thursday 2nd ). Which suits you best? – I have besides the pelasure of making your acquaintaince, one or two business matters to speak to you about. If you would "come to tea" – in our old-fashioned way. 6P.M. – my brother would be at home - & would be happy to see you.

Yours very truly, DMulock May 18th

I think you said you were in town almost every Thursday or Friday – I therefore name those days.