Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 14 May 1845.

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                <p>I thank you for the remittance of a sovereign &amp; regret that “<title
                        corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#NewTeacher">The New Teacher</title>” did not
                    suit. May I hope that the enclosed will have better success? — It is also
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                <closer>I remain, Sir<lb/> Yours obliged<lb/>
                    <signed><persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Dinah Maria
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 14 May 1845. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 14 May 1845. MS 96; Folio 155

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.

May 14 — 1845 Newcastle Sir

I thank you for the remittance of a sovereign & regret that “The New Teacher” did not suit. May I hope that the enclosed will have better success? — It is also translated from “ The Caméléon ” — & perhaps may be suitable for your Miscellany if not for the Journal.

I remain, Sir Yours obliged Dinah Maria Mulock

Robert Chambers Esqr Esquire — P.S. May I request an answer — to the same address as before? —

1 In May 1845, Dinah was staying with a friend named Mrs. Wilson at Barton under Needwood, Lichfield, Staffordshire.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 14 May 1845. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 14 May 1845. MS 96; Folio 155

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.

May 14 — 1845 Newcastle Sir

I thank you for the remittance of a sovereign & regret that “The New Teacher” did not suit. May I hope that the enclosed will have better success? — It is also translated from “ The Caméléon ” — & perhaps may be suitable for your Miscellany if not for the Journal.

I remain, Sir Yours obliged Dinah Maria Mulock

Robert Chambers Esqr Esquire — P.S. May I request an answer — to the same address as before? —

In May 1845, Dinah was staying with a friend named Mrs. Wilson at Barton under Needwood, Lichfield, Staffordshire.