Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 5 June 1857

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                <p>Your letter was forwarded to me here &amp; glad was I to receive it. I thought
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                    fortnight ago I came here with <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MissParker"
                        >Miss Parker</persName> who has a home here that requires looking after. She
                    was not well neither was I, so she thought she should like a companion better
                    than solitude all so she begged me of <persName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockEliza">Aunt Eliza</persName> who saw I was not
                    well &amp; very gladly let me come here. We return next week if all well.</p>
                <p>How glad I am to hear such good tidings that your dear cheeks have got round
                    again. I hope dear love you are not working too hard. I see <title
                        corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#NothingNew">‘Nothing New’</title> in large
                    characters, in the windows here, but that is something old I think you said. Do
                    you remember the gentleman in the Boat who put down his <unclear
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                    that’s the Head of the family.” I see some tall Ladies about here with hats
                    &amp; I always think of you. One girl especially whom I associate with you in
                    the way of likeness.</p>
                <p>I agree with you about the Americans &amp; the Irish blood upon American
                    education is altogether too strong for you &amp; me.</p>
                <p>By the way, I have read your paper upon women &amp; I think it capital. The
                    shades are indistinct between self-reliance when compulsion makes it necessary
                    &amp; the self confident <unclear reason="illegible">spurt</unclear> that is so
                    unfeminine when there is no occasion for it made such an essay very difficult in
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                    only if they fall in your way. What of dear <persName
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                    said. Sickness will come – Death will come – but to those who love <persName
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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 5 June 1857. 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 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 7 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, 5 June 1857.

This is a 5-page letter. Page 5 is crosswritten onto page 1.

 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.
Teignmouth June 5 /57 1857 Very dear Dinah

Your letter was forwarded to me here & glad was I to receive it. I thought much of you & wondered were you getting strength by your little visit. A fortnight ago I came here with Miss Parker who has a home here that requires looking after. She was not well neither was I, so she thought she should like a companion better than solitude all so she begged me of Aunt Eliza who saw I was not well & very gladly let me come here. We return next week if all well.

How glad I am to hear such good tidings that your dear cheeks have got round again. I hope dear love you are not working too hard. I see ‘Nothing New’ in large characters, in the windows here, but that is something old I think you said. Do you remember the gentleman in the Boat who put down his card with such triumph & said “Now there – that’s the Head of the family.” I see some tall Ladies about here with hats & I always think of you. One girl especially whom I associate with you in the way of likeness.

I agree with you about the Americans & the Irish blood upon American education is altogether too strong for you & me.

By the way, I have read your paper upon women & I think it capital. The shades are indistinct between self-reliance when compulsion makes it necessary & the self confident spurt that is so unfeminine when there is no occasion for it made such an essay very difficult in my mind to clear up but your piece just distinguished those shades as merely that a sensible woman may help herself, while she is glad to accept, with womanly grace, of all the help that others may voluntarily give her.

Miss Parker was wonderfully pleased with it. She has the sense of the thing that your paper portrays– but not the grace of the thing She is for doing without help from any one. Your paper intimates that in the absence of help it is a women’s place to do

I hope you liked Corfe castle & saw the slope where Cromwell’s Men crept up the bank. What a view! I spent a pleasant day there. Miss Parker was then staying with us & also Miss Conner . Did you like Swanage? and did you see the house in the hill over looking the bay where we lived for 2 months?

Thank my dear love about the autographs, but don’t trouble yourself about them – only if they fall in your way. What of dear Ben? My love to him when next write. All are well at home: I know a time will come, when that can no longer be said. Sickness will come – Death will come – but to those who love Jesus this will be well _ “Soon the joyful news will come “Child your Father Calls. Come home. Then will follow an abundant entrance into the heavenly Kingdom. Christ the all in all. My heart says. Even so come Lord Jesus. Farewell dearest dear Dinah. Believe me.

Yours fondly ABM —

Miss Parker's kindest regrets.
1 These are lines from a Christian hymn.

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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 5 June 1857. 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 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 7 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, 5 June 1857.

This is a 5-page letter. Page 5 is crosswritten onto page 1.

 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.
Teignmouth June 5 / 57 1857 Very dear Dinah

Your letter was forwarded to me here & glad was I to receive it. I thought much of you & wondered were you getting strength by your little visit. A fortnight ago I came here with Miss Parker who has a home here that requires looking after. She was not well neither was I, so she thought she should like a companion better than solitude all so she begged me of Aunt Eliza who saw I was not well & very gladly let me come here. We return next week if all well.

How glad I am to hear such good tidings that your dear cheeks have got round again. I hope dear love you are not working too hard. I see ‘Nothing New’ in large characters, in the windows here, but that is something old I think you said. Do you remember the gentleman in the Boat who put down his card with such triumph & said “Now there – that’s the Head of the family.” I see some tall Ladies about here with hats & I always think of you. One girl especially whom I associate with you in the way of likeness.

I agree with you about the Americans & the Irish blood upon American education is altogether too strong for you & me.

By the way, I have read your paper upon women & I think it capital. The shades are indistinct between self-reliance when compulsion makes it necessary & the self confident spurt that is so unfeminine when there is no occasion for it made such an essay very difficult in my mind to clear up but your piece just distinguished those shades as merely that a sensible woman may help herself, while she is glad to accept, with womanly grace, of all the help that others may voluntarily give her.

Miss Parker was wonderfully pleased with it. She has the sense of the thing that your paper portrays– but not the grace of the thing She is for doing without help from any one. Your paper intimates that in the absence of help it is a women’s place to do

I hope you liked Corfe castle & saw the slope where Cromwell’s Men crept up the bank. What a view! I spent a pleasant day there. Miss Parker was then staying with us & also Miss Conner . Did you like Swanage? and did you see the house in the hill over looking the bay where we lived for 2 months?

Thank my dear love about the autographs, but don’t trouble yourself about them – only if they fall in your way. What of dear Ben? My love to him when next write. All are well at home: I know a time will come, when that can no longer be said. Sickness will come – Death will come – but to those who love Jesus this will be well _ “Soon the joyful news will come “Child your Father Calls. Come home. Then will follow an abundant entrance into the heavenly Kingdom. Christ the all in all. My heart says. Even so come Lord Jesus. Farewell dearest dear Dinah. Believe me.

Yours fondly ABM —

Miss Parker's kindest regrets.
These are lines from a Christian hymn.