Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 6 April 1854

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 6 April 1854. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription March-April 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding March-April 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima 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 The Morgan Library and Museum.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive The Morgan Library and Museum Collection of Autograph Letters Signed: London, to Frederic Chapman 8610.24 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 6 April 1854.

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.
Dear Mr. Chapman

I am sorry to say you will have no novel of mine this year – as I have been ill & unable to work at it for some months.

But Mrs. Hooper – (late Miss Jane Winnard) whose childs’ children's books Messrs Addey & Cundall have been publishing, & who is a first rate periodical writer, tells me she has just finished a Novel. The subject is peculiar & striking – in fact I think the book will likely be a great success. What say you to it – for on the usual terms of first novels by known periodical writers, viz £150? – I think Mrs. Hooper would be satisfied with that & you will not get such an original subject or such a good novel, in a hurry.

Will you write me yes or no – as to your inclination for the same – & you shall have the M.S. manuscript

Very sincerely yours Dinah Mulock – Apr April 6th /54 1854

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 6 April 1854. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription March-April 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding March-April 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima 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 The Morgan Library and Museum.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive The Morgan Library and Museum Collection of Autograph Letters Signed: London, to Frederic Chapman 8610.24 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 6 April 1854.

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.
Dear Mr. Chapman

I am sorry to say you will have no novel of mine this year – as I have been ill & unable to work at it for some months.

But Mrs. Hooper – (late Miss Jane Winnard) whose childs’ children's books Messrs Addey & Cundall have been publishing, & who is a first rate periodical writer, tells me she has just finished a Novel. The subject is peculiar & striking – in fact I think the book will likely be a great success. What say you to it – for on the usual terms of first novels by known periodical writers, viz £150? – I think Mrs. Hooper would be satisfied with that & you will not get such an original subject or such a good novel, in a hurry.

Will you write me yes or no – as to your inclination for the same – & you shall have the M.S. manuscript

Very sincerely yours Dinah Mulock – Apr April 6th / 54 1854