Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 15 October 1874

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                <p> As this is the day on which the final payment for <title
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 15 October 1874. 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 February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson TEI encoding February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson Proofing of TEI encoding March 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: March 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

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 AM16849 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 15 October 1874. Box 6, Folder 26

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.
Oct October 15 – 1874 – The Corner House, Shortlands Kent Dear Mr. Isbister

As this is the day on which the final payment for “Young Mrs. Jardine” – let me say to you a few plain words – I sold you my book as a 2 vol volume novel – for £800 – you especially saying that you could not give more because it was only in 2 vols volumes . — You re-sold it to Messrs Hurst & Blackets – they tell me – as a 3 vol volume novel – Had I known of this in time I might have prevented the sale, & I had undoubtedly a legal right to interdict the publication. The book has done the service of a 3 vol volume novel – & after going through Good Words for 12 months has been re-sold as such. – I consider therefore that I am fully entitled to my usual price for a 3 vol volume novel – viz £1000. –  I meant to represent this to the liquidators – who signed the former cheques – on receiving the last one; but prefer naming it first to you. Will you – before I take my other step—suggest to them that in common fairness the cheque should be £400 instead of £200 – making up the sum total — as I say – £1000? – 

Very truly yours DMCraik – 

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 15 October 1874. 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 February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson TEI encoding February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson Proofing of TEI encoding March 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: March 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

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 AM16849 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 15 October 1874. Box 6, Folder 26

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.
Oct October 15 – 1874 – The Corner House, Shortlands Kent Dear Mr. Isbister

As this is the day on which the final payment for “Young Mrs. Jardine” – let me say to you a few plain words – I sold you my book as a 2 vol volume novel – for £800 – you especially saying that you could not give more because it was only in 2 vols volumes . — You re-sold it to Messrs Hurst & Blackets – they tell me – as a 3 vol volume novel – Had I known of this in time I might have prevented the sale, & I had undoubtedly a legal right to interdict the publication. The book has done the service of a 3 vol volume novel – & after going through Good Words for 12 months has been re-sold as such. – I consider therefore that I am fully entitled to my usual price for a 3 vol volume novel – viz £1000. –  I meant to represent this to the liquidators – who signed the former cheques – on receiving the last one; but prefer naming it first to you. Will you – before I take my other step—suggest to them that in common fairness the cheque should be £400 instead of £200 – making up the sum total — as I say – £1000? – 

Very truly yours DMCraik –