Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 7 October 1845

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                    <dateline><date when="1845-10-07">October 7<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>
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                        <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Bath">Bath</placeName></dateline>
                    <salute>My dear <choice>
                            <sic>Neice</sic>
                            <reg resp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#FukushimaKailey">Niece</reg>
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                <p>Most truly do we all sympathize with you in your sad bereavement, the account of
                    which has just reached us. You have sustained an irreparable loss, as far as
                    human ties are concerned. But there is One whose presence &amp; love can supply
                    every want, &amp; fill all relationship – Jehovah <persName
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                    His Church &amp; People. The best blessing I can desire for you is that you may
                    know him savingly in such way &amp; sort as He reveals himself to his own dear
                    family – and this would be to find in Him a Father a Friend – a Brother – an
                    advocate – a <choice>
                        <sic>councellor</sic>
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                    </choice> – your all in all – </p>
                <p>Ah my dear <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Dinah</persName> tis a poor
                    dying world to have the heart fired upon – its promises are a cheat – its
                    prospect delusive – its joys bitterness – its pleasures gall – – but till
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                <p>Your Aunts &amp; myself are glad to hear you propose leaving <placeName
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                    your relations. Your <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockEliza">Aunt
                        Eliza</persName> begs me with her Kindest love to enclose you the
                    accompanying cheque for <measure type="currency">£10</measure> which will help
                    to defray your present expenses &amp; your will accept it with our united
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                <p>Believe me to be in sympathy &amp; regard. </p>
                <closer>Your sincere <unclear reason="illegible">Aunt</unclear>
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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 7 October 1845. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of transcription 11 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 11 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 20 December 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of California at Los Angeles Charles E. Young Research Library Mulock Family Papers 846 Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 7 October 1845. Box 1, Folder 10

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, abbrieviations, 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.
October 7th 1845 Bath My dear Neice Niece

Most truly do we all sympathize with you in your sad bereavement, the account of which has just reached us. You have sustained an irreparable loss, as far as human ties are concerned. But there is One whose presence & love can supply every want, & fill all relationship – Jehovah Jesus, the Covenant Head of His Church & People. The best blessing I can desire for you is that you may know him savingly in such way & sort as He reveals himself to his own dear family – and this would be to find in Him a Father a Friend – a Brother – an advocate – a councellor counsellor – your all in all –

Ah my dear Dinah tis a poor dying world to have the heart fired upon – its promises are a cheat – its prospect delusive – its joys bitterness – its pleasures gall – – but till Jesus touches the soul, it is our god. our idol – we can't keep it – we must love it – but when the soul finds Jesus, or rather, Jesus finds the soul, thus it is the world is seen in its true light & we are taught to forsake all we loved before –

Young as you are, you have had a pathway of sorrow, but this can’t “change the heart, renew the will, & turn the feet to Zion’s hill.” Grace alone can do that.

Your Aunts & myself are glad to hear you propose leaving London – we suppose to visit your relations. Your Aunt Eliza begs me with her Kindest love to enclose you the accompanying cheque for £10 which will help to defray your present expenses & your will accept it with our united love.

Believe me to be in sympathy & regard.

Your sincere Aunt ABMulock.

P.S. You will please to let us hear this reaches you by return of post.
1 These are lines from a Christian hymn.

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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 7 October 1845. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of transcription 11 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 11 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 20 December 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of California at Los Angeles Charles E. Young Research Library Mulock Family Papers 846 Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 7 October 1845. Box 1, Folder 10

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, abbrieviations, 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.
October 7th 1845 Bath My dear Neice Niece

Most truly do we all sympathize with you in your sad bereavement, the account of which has just reached us. You have sustained an irreparable loss, as far as human ties are concerned. But there is One whose presence & love can supply every want, & fill all relationship – Jehovah Jesus, the Covenant Head of His Church & People. The best blessing I can desire for you is that you may know him savingly in such way & sort as He reveals himself to his own dear family – and this would be to find in Him a Father a Friend – a Brother – an advocate – a councellor counsellor – your all in all –

Ah my dear Dinah tis a poor dying world to have the heart fired upon – its promises are a cheat – its prospect delusive – its joys bitterness – its pleasures gall – – but till Jesus touches the soul, it is our god. our idol – we can't keep it – we must love it – but when the soul finds Jesus, or rather, Jesus finds the soul, thus it is the world is seen in its true light & we are taught to forsake all we loved before –

Young as you are, you have had a pathway of sorrow, but this can’t “change the heart, renew the will, & turn the feet to Zion’s hill.” Grace alone can do that.

Your Aunts & myself are glad to hear you propose leaving London – we suppose to visit your relations. Your Aunt Eliza begs me with her Kindest love to enclose you the accompanying cheque for £10 which will help to defray your present expenses & your will accept it with our united love.

Believe me to be in sympathy & regard.

Your sincere Aunt ABMulock.

P.S. You will please to let us hear this reaches you by return of post.
These are lines from a Christian hymn.