Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 10 April 1858

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 10 April 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 June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2015

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 AM18756 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 10 April 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.
Linacre, Liverpool — Apr April 10th / 58 1858 My dear Sir

Your book came in the midst of that great confusion – a flitting. I put off both reading & acknowledging it till I had returned home here, where I am now living with my brother – having given up my London house – & renounced London itself altogether in favor favour of a country life – in which alone I can help health.

Your book is most pleasant – & your remembrance of me pleasanter. I have thought how very kind you were to us both in those old days when Ben & I were living in Camden Town. –

And believe me with what pleasure likewise we shall always both hear of you & shake hands with you, any time or anywhere. –

Yours most sincerely, DinahMulock –
1 "To remove from one habitation to another, change one's residence, ‘move’. Chiefly north. (In proverbial expressions often opposed to sit.)" (OED "flit" 6.)

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 10 April 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 June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2015

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 AM18756 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, 10 April 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.
Linacre, Liverpool — Apr April 10th / 58 1858 My dear Sir

Your book came in the midst of that great confusion – a flitting. I put off both reading & acknowledging it till I had returned home here, where I am now living with my brother – having given up my London house – & renounced London itself altogether in favor favour of a country life – in which alone I can help health.

Your book is most pleasant – & your remembrance of me pleasanter. I have thought how very kind you were to us both in those old days when Ben & I were living in Camden Town. –

And believe me with what pleasure likewise we shall always both hear of you & shake hands with you, any time or anywhere. –

Yours most sincerely, DinahMulock –
"To remove from one habitation to another, change one's residence, ‘move’. Chiefly north. (In proverbial expressions often opposed to sit.)" (OED "flit" 6.)