Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Fitzgerald, 25 October post-1866.

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                <opener><dateline><placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CornerHouse">The Corner
                            House</placeName>
                        <lb/><placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Shortlands">Shortlands</placeName>
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                    <lb/><salute>Dear <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MrsFitzgerald">Mrs.
                            Fitzgerald</persName></salute></opener>
                <p>I did my best for your poor friends — <choice>
                        <abbr>till</abbr>
                        <expan>until</expan>
                    </choice> their plans changed. — When I heard they were to go to <placeName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Ventnor">Ventnor</placeName> I wrote to <persName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#ParrHarriet">Miss Parr — "Holme Lee."</persName> at
                        <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Shanklin">Shanklin</placeName> — &amp;
                    have now got back the enclosed — which explain themselves. <persName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#SewellElizabeth">Miss Elizabeth Sewell</persName> —
                    (the writer) — is a very good woman. — Could you get the letters &amp;c somehow
                    to <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#ReadeElizabeth" cert="medium">Mrs.
                        Lee</persName>. — I wrote to her address at <placeName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Southampton">Southampton</placeName> — but getting
                    no answer fear she has left. — And through you seems the quickest way of getting
                    at her. — </p>
                <p><placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Bonchurch">Bonchurch</placeName> is a sweet
                    place. — Poor souls! — </p>
                <p>I am going about the house as "the <choice><abbr>de'il</abbr><expan>devil</expan></choice> on two sticks". — it has been a weary
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                <p>I thought <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CairdMrsEdward">Mrs. Edward
                        Caird</persName> so nice. — &amp; your little girlie charming.</p>
                <p>Every kind remembrance. We shall meet some day again — </p>
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                                <abbr>Oct</abbr>
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                        <lb/>Thursday. — </p>
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Fitzgerald, 25 October post-1866. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription June 2014 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription 8 June 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding 3 May 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding 12 May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: July 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Harvard University Houghton Library Modern Books & Manuscripts Collection John Endicott Peabody Autograph Album MS AM 1974, f19 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Fitzgerald, 25 October post-1866.

The dateline of this letter is embossed onto the upper-right corner of the first page. An anchor is also embossed onto the top-centre of the first page.

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.
The Corner House Shortlands Bromley Kent Dear Mrs. Fitzgerald

I did my best for your poor friends — till until their plans changed. — When I heard they were to go to Ventnor I wrote to Miss Parr — "Holme Lee." at Shanklin — & have now got back the enclosed — which explain themselves. Miss Elizabeth Sewell — (the writer) — is a very good woman. — Could you get the letters &c somehow to Mrs. Lee. — I wrote to her address at Southampton — but getting no answer fear she has left. — And through you seems the quickest way of getting at her. —

Bonchurch is a sweet place. — Poor souls! —

I am going about the house as "the de'il devil on two sticks". — it has been a weary business but I hope to walk properly some day.

I thought Mrs. Edward Caird so nice. — & your little girlie charming.

Every kind remembrance. We shall meet some day again —

Yours sincerely always DMCraik —

Oct October 25 — Thursday. —

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Fitzgerald, 25 October post-1866. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription June 2014 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription 8 June 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding 3 May 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding 12 May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: July 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Harvard University Houghton Library Modern Books & Manuscripts Collection John Endicott Peabody Autograph Album MS AM 1974, f19 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Fitzgerald, 25 October post-1866.

The dateline of this letter is embossed onto the upper-right corner of the first page. An anchor is also embossed onto the top-centre of the first page.

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.
The Corner House Shortlands Bromley Kent Dear Mrs. Fitzgerald

I did my best for your poor friends — till until their plans changed. — When I heard they were to go to Ventnor I wrote to Miss Parr — "Holme Lee." at Shanklin — & have now got back the enclosed — which explain themselves. Miss Elizabeth Sewell — (the writer) — is a very good woman. — Could you get the letters &c somehow to Mrs. Lee. — I wrote to her address at Southampton — but getting no answer fear she has left. — And through you seems the quickest way of getting at her. —

Bonchurch is a sweet place. — Poor souls! —

I am going about the house as "the de'il devil on two sticks". — it has been a weary business but I hope to walk properly some day.

I thought Mrs. Edward Caird so nice. — & your little girlie charming.

Every kind remembrance. We shall meet some day again —

Yours sincerely always DMCraik —

Oct October 25 — Thursday. —