Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 25 November 1883

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               <salute>My darling child</salute>
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            <p> I was so pleased with your nice letter – without a single mistake &amp; written so
               well too. – This is only to say that you will see me – &amp; most likely Uncle
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               I saw yesterday but <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MrsHomfray">Mrs. Homfray</persName> – who will give me the address of their
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               letter which <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikGeorge">Papa</persName> made me
               write – he found his handkerchiefs! – which made me sorry to have written – But he
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 25 November 1883. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription February-March 2015 by Keila Karinne Aleman First proofing of transcription February-March 2015 by Will Best Second proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Janice Parker TEI encoding February-March 2015 by Keila Karinne Aleman First proofing of TEI encoding by February-March 2015 by Will Best Second proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Janice Parker Third proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 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 Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 25 November 1883. Box 2, Folder 15

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.
25 Nov November /83 1883 Sunday The Corner House Shortlands, Kent. My darling child

I was so pleased with your nice letter – without a single mistake & written so well too. – This is only to say that you will see me – & most likely Uncle William too – by 2 P.M. tomorrow – & to beg Connie & Bel not to go till afternoon tea. I saw their two cousins Kate & Lily yesterday – & their uncle is coming to see me this afternoon – and who do you think I saw yesterday but Mrs. Homfray – who will give me the address of their lodgings in Rome. Poor Ida has been shut up with bronchitis for weeks. She sent her love to you as did all the Barrow girls – such nice girls they have grown. Everybody remembered you – & wished you had come here – Tell Jessie that after I had sent the severe letter which Papa made me write – he found his handkerchiefs! – which made me sorry to have written – But he never found his night-gown – And he is right in saying Jessie has not been of late quite what she used to be – But I know she will be careful in future – I write this that she may not have an hour's more pain than I can help. – so be sure you tell her – It is not good for you young creatures never to be found fault with – but I like to find fault, when obliged to do it, in the justest & tenderest way – Goodbye my darling child. How glad I shall be to come home!! –

Ever your loving Mother – DMC – –

You do not say if you rode yesterday – I hope all went well. – 

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 25 November 1883. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription February-March 2015 by Keila Karinne Aleman First proofing of transcription February-March 2015 by Will Best Second proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Janice Parker TEI encoding February-March 2015 by Keila Karinne Aleman First proofing of TEI encoding by February-March 2015 by Will Best Second proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Janice Parker Third proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 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 Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 25 November 1883. Box 2, Folder 15

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.
25 Nov November /83 1883 Sunday The Corner House Shortlands, Kent. My darling child

I was so pleased with your nice letter – without a single mistake & written so well too. – This is only to say that you will see me – & most likely Uncle William too – by 2 P.M. tomorrow – & to beg Connie & Bel not to go till afternoon tea. I saw their two cousins Kate & Lily yesterday – & their uncle is coming to see me this afternoon – and who do you think I saw yesterday but Mrs. Homfray – who will give me the address of their lodgings in Rome. Poor Ida has been shut up with bronchitis for weeks. She sent her love to you as did all the Barrow girls – such nice girls they have grown. Everybody remembered you – & wished you had come here – Tell Jessie that after I had sent the severe letter which Papa made me write – he found his handkerchiefs! – which made me sorry to have written – But he never found his night-gown – And he is right in saying Jessie has not been of late quite what she used to be – But I know she will be careful in future – I write this that she may not have an hour's more pain than I can help. – so be sure you tell her – It is not good for you young creatures never to be found fault with – but I like to find fault, when obliged to do it, in the justest & tenderest way – Goodbye my darling child. How glad I shall be to come home!! –

Ever your loving Mother – DMC – –

You do not say if you rode yesterday – I hope all went well. –