Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 16 November 1858

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                <opener><salute>Dear Sir</salute></opener>
                <p>I am glad to aid in so good an institution as that of <placeName
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                            <sic>Long sight</sic>
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                <closer>yours very truly<lb/>
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                            Halifax Gent</title></p>
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                <!-- There is very little context to go with this letter but it seems possible that Craik’s addressee is John A. Walker, a man from Longsight who, from 1856–57, proposed changes to the nation’s policy on criminal reform. Walker perceived that peoples’ unwillingness to employ ticket-of-leave men (ex-convicts) left these men desperate and poor, and frequently caused them to return to a life of crime. Walker sought to form a society which would help to find ex-criminals secure employment in the trades as a path towards moral reformation. Craik’s open support for reformatories (see PU40 in the Princeton Parrish Collection—“DMC to Thomas Mulock, c. 1861”) suggests that she might have had similar views towards Walker’s proposed “societies for employment.” For more information on John A. Walker and his views, see his published letters in the Times.<lb/>
George S. Jenkinson, “Reformation of Criminals,” Times, 2 Dec. 1856, 4.<lb/>
John A. Walker, “Ticket-of-Leave Men.—Reformation By Means of Employment,” Times, 30 Oct. 1856, 5.<lb/>
John A. Walker, “The Ticket-of-Leave System,” Times, 1 Jan. 1857, 10. -->
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 16 November 1858. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2016 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding May 2016 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June 2015 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI,July 2016. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM21093 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 16 November 1858. Box 6, Folder 24

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 faciliate searching. The long s is not encoded.
Dear Sir

I am glad to aid in so good an institution as that of Long sight Longsight & by your acceptance of the enclosed.

yours very truly Dinah Mulock Linacre Liverpool Nov November 16th: / 58 1858

Jn Halifax Gent

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 16 November 1858. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2016 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding May 2016 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June 2015 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI,July 2016. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM21093 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 16 November 1858. Box 6, Folder 24

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 faciliate searching. The long s is not encoded.
Dear Sir

I am glad to aid in so good an institution as that of Long sight Longsight & by your acceptance of the enclosed.

yours very truly Dinah Mulock Linacre Liverpool Nov November 16th: / 58 1858

Jn Halifax Gent