Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown American publisher, 22 January 1879.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown American publisher, 22 January 1879. 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 September 2016 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding September 2016 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Kailey Fukushima Second proofing of TEI encoding February 2017 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, February 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 18756 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown American publisher, 22 January 1879.

Dinah Craik's address, The Corner House, Shortlands, Kent, is embossed onto the top-right of the page.

 Box 6, Folder 24
Jan January 22 – 1879 – The Corner House Shortlands, Kent Dear Sir

Would the International like for “lightning” – a novel by Clarence Dobell – the “favorite” brother of Sydney – himself both an author & an artist – though also a man of business. – Consequently he does very little – but that little is first-rate. He has all Sydney’s power – without his eccentricities. This novel has taken about three years to write – It is historical – at the time of the battle of Tewkesbury – which in many was was a curious reflection of our times – so that it is not made of dry bones but flesh & blood – after the fashion of Charles Kingsley – I think it would tell well in America. & shd should be glad to send it, if I thought it would suit – But if you think decidedly not, I would rather not lose the time – will you let me hear? –

very truly yours DMCraik

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown American publisher, 22 January 1879. 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 September 2016 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding September 2016 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Kailey Fukushima Second proofing of TEI encoding February 2017 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, February 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 18756 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown American publisher, 22 January 1879.

Dinah Craik's address, The Corner House, Shortlands, Kent, is embossed onto the top-right of the page.

 Box 6, Folder 24
Jan January 22 – 1879 – The Corner House Shortlands, Kent Dear Sir

Would the International like for “lightning” – a novel by Clarence Dobell – the “favorite” brother of Sydney – himself both an author & an artist – though also a man of business. – Consequently he does very little – but that little is first-rate. He has all Sydney’s power – without his eccentricities. This novel has taken about three years to write – It is historical – at the time of the battle of Tewkesbury – which in many was was a curious reflection of our times – so that it is not made of dry bones but flesh & blood – after the fashion of Charles Kingsley – I think it would tell well in America. & shd should be glad to send it, if I thought it would suit – But if you think decidedly not, I would rather not lose the time – will you let me hear? –

very truly yours DMCraik