Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William and Robert Chambers, 28 March 1845.

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                <p>I am anxious to become a contributor to your excellent tracts — and therefore
                    send for your approval a translation from the Italian of <persName
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                    principal merit of this little history appears to be its truth, as is alleged —
                    &amp; its moral feeling. It is a little abridged in the translation, but not
                    much. If it should prove aceptable to you, either in itself, or as a carnett of
                    future translations in Italian or French, your receiving it will be both useful
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                <closer>Gentlemen,<lb/> Yours respectfully<lb/>
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                    <p> I should feel much indebted for a communication – addressed to
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                        <lb/><placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#BartonUnderNeedwood">Barton under
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William and Robert Chambers, 28 March 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 William and Robert Chambers, 28 March 1845. MS 96; Folio 141

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.

March 28th 1845 Gentlemen

I am anxious to become a contributor to your excellent tracts — and therefore send for your approval a translation from the Italian of L. Bramier — The principal merit of this little history appears to be its truth, as is alleged — & its moral feeling. It is a little abridged in the translation, but not much. If it should prove aceptable to you, either in itself, or as a carnett of future translations in Italian or French, your receiving it will be both useful and pleasing to .

Gentlemen, Yours respectfully Dinah Maria Mulock

I should feel much indebted for a communication – addressed to Miss Mulock care of Mrs. Wilson Barton under Needwood near Lichfield Staffordshire To Messrs W & R Chambers.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William and Robert Chambers, 28 March 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 William and Robert Chambers, 28 March 1845. MS 96; Folio 141

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.

March 28th 1845 Gentlemen

I am anxious to become a contributor to your excellent tracts — and therefore send for your approval a translation from the Italian of L. Bramier — The principal merit of this little history appears to be its truth, as is alleged — & its moral feeling. It is a little abridged in the translation, but not much. If it should prove aceptable to you, either in itself, or as a carnett of future translations in Italian or French, your receiving it will be both useful and pleasing to .

Gentlemen, Yours respectfully Dinah Maria Mulock

I should feel much indebted for a communication – addressed to Miss Mulock care of Mrs. Wilson Barton under Needwood near Lichfield Staffordshire To Messrs W & R Chambers.