Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, unknown date

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            <p>Many &amp; kindest thanks for your letter. We all admired the wisdom of your second
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            <p>Your Aunts are all well.</p>
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            <p>Did you lose <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockEliza">Aunt E</persName>'s
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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, unknown date. 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 Second Proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 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, unknown date. 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, 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.
7th Very dear Dinah

Many & kindest thanks for your letter. We all admired the wisdom of your second thoughts & your forbearance. This is a fire that must burn itself out. Nothing can check or control it. Self exaltation is its root. But a letter like that of Miss N's and the ill judged commendation of Dr. B – upon what I call, Don Quixote fighting with a windmill – is quite enough to put every nerve in motion for “appeased humanity.” quietly putting in the background all the humanity that must be strengthened en route to the victory of sitting at liberty a crew that I am sure are far better confined, and the locale whether in jail or an asylum is of little consequence. But you must know, that an idiosyncrasy of your Father’s was starting up a grievance. I think it affords him real pleasure & then the triumphant way he rejoices in taking to himself all the credit of finding & ferretting it out, is truly curious. Dr. B's letter most interested us all. Mary was a worthy creature. When I went to R – a little sickly thing – she was very kind to me & amongst 5 cousins I fastened my heart upon her & loved the shadow of her form. She swore like a trooper at every one who dared to molest and hurt me. Measured me out the allowance of diet I was to have, with a liberal hand; & made me believe if I read the Psalms for the day, & an odd chapter when I had time & inclination, & spoke the truth, it was all well with me. Once I remember she reproved me for making use of the expletive which I learnt from her. I told her pratly where I had it from. A box in the ear settled the matter & made me careful in future not to follow my preceptress. The education of the whole family being confined to my uncle, who thought his knowing enough for all his children, Mary had kind matter to teach me. She read badly & spelt worse. Her arithmetic was the best as she speculated in Fowl & eggs, and a calf having merged into a cow during my stay there & making Mary the joyful ouvrier of horses, I remember well how grandly Mary flourished about in a light silk dress the produce of the sale of the 2 young ones. I believe I had a sash out of it, but I know I had lots of gingerbread, which Tom never failed to bring me home from the fair. What a curious kaleidoscope thing is memory! A time in the glass, containing worthless bits, that looked at, this a particular medium gives you a form full of interest. I hope dear Dinah you arrived comfortably at Greenock. I went to Clarendon to see Emily once upon a time – a few days after I was 25. I will remember how mature I felt – how gratuitous & almost impertinent I considered the protecting attentions of a Lady & Gentleman in the coach. I had a sort of a feeling they ought to know I was 25 & could take care of myself, and without considering that I looked much younger than I was I thought it hard to be questioned like a girl & advice being given instead of asked. I remember my feelings that day far better than I do those of later dates. Pride & self conceit in every thought. O how truly God disenties the heart – yours & mine – as “Deceitful above all things & desperately wicked.” Who can know it? enquires the Lord? None but those taught of God – and such want a Saviour. Such want a Saviour for themselves as though there was no other sinner upon earth and such want to be able to say with the Mother of Jesus. My Saviour. It is possession constitutes the blessedness of the Saviour & the joy of religion – and out of this springs nearness & access to God through Christ – fellowship with the Father – a tasting and handling of the word of life 1.John.1.1.2. Something experienced – felt – realized – not a dry dead creed – not a few notions not a Sandemanian belief – but a loving, operative, divine faith, which lays hold of Christ by the power of the Holy Ghost. If the term Sandemanian be new to you, your good friend Mr. P. will explain it I have no doubt. A doctrine that came in its present form, from his country though a weed that has its habitat in every country; for the work of Satan is to substitute notion for life – and to put apart the letter of the word & the spirit of God – thus deceiving souls with a natural faith instead of a “faith of the operations of God.”

I mean to send this via Liverpool & so thank dear Ben’s for his pussy.

Your Aunts are all well.

I have no news of any kind for you dearest Dinah.

Did you lose Aunt E's portend? If so tell me, & you shall have another.

Farewell dear pet niece & Believe me your loving old aunt Alicia —

Miss Mulock care of Miss Lovell of Morninton Mornington Crescent London

1 "Pratly" is an archaic spelling of the adverb "prettily," which Aunt Alicia Mulock used to mean "gently, softly, quietly" (OED "prettily, n.", 2b.) According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Alica Mulock's spelling is characteristic of the English North.

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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, unknown date. 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 Second Proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 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, unknown date. 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, 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.
7th Very dear Dinah

Many & kindest thanks for your letter. We all admired the wisdom of your second thoughts & your forbearance. This is a fire that must burn itself out. Nothing can check or control it. Self exaltation is its root. But a letter like that of Miss N's and the ill judged commendation of Dr. B – upon what I call, Don Quixote fighting with a windmill – is quite enough to put every nerve in motion for “appeased humanity.” quietly putting in the background all the humanity that must be strengthened en route to the victory of sitting at liberty a crew that I am sure are far better confined, and the locale whether in jail or an asylum is of little consequence. But you must know, that an idiosyncrasy of your Father’s was starting up a grievance. I think it affords him real pleasure & then the triumphant way he rejoices in taking to himself all the credit of finding & ferretting it out, is truly curious. Dr. B's letter most interested us all. Mary was a worthy creature. When I went to R – a little sickly thing – she was very kind to me & amongst 5 cousins I fastened my heart upon her & loved the shadow of her form. She swore like a trooper at every one who dared to molest and hurt me. Measured me out the allowance of diet I was to have, with a liberal hand; & made me believe if I read the Psalms for the day, & an odd chapter when I had time & inclination, & spoke the truth, it was all well with me. Once I remember she reproved me for making use of the expletive which I learnt from her. I told her pratly where I had it from. A box in the ear settled the matter & made me careful in future not to follow my preceptress. The education of the whole family being confined to my uncle, who thought his knowing enough for all his children, Mary had kind matter to teach me. She read badly & spelt worse. Her arithmetic was the best as she speculated in Fowl & eggs, and a calf having merged into a cow during my stay there & making Mary the joyful ouvrier of horses, I remember well how grandly Mary flourished about in a light silk dress the produce of the sale of the 2 young ones. I believe I had a sash out of it, but I know I had lots of gingerbread, which Tom never failed to bring me home from the fair. What a curious kaleidoscope thing is memory! A time in the glass, containing worthless bits, that looked at, this a particular medium gives you a form full of interest. I hope dear Dinah you arrived comfortably at Greenock. I went to Clarendon to see Emily once upon a time – a few days after I was 25. I will remember how mature I felt – how gratuitous & almost impertinent I considered the protecting attentions of a Lady & Gentleman in the coach. I had a sort of a feeling they ought to know I was 25 & could take care of myself, and without considering that I looked much younger than I was I thought it hard to be questioned like a girl & advice being given instead of asked. I remember my feelings that day far better than I do those of later dates. Pride & self conceit in every thought. O how truly God disenties the heart – yours & mine – as “Deceitful above all things & desperately wicked.” Who can know it? enquires the Lord? None but those taught of God – and such want a Saviour. Such want a Saviour for themselves as though there was no other sinner upon earth and such want to be able to say with the Mother of Jesus. My Saviour. It is possession constitutes the blessedness of the Saviour & the joy of religion – and out of this springs nearness & access to God through Christ – fellowship with the Father – a tasting and handling of the word of life 1.John.1.1.2. Something experienced – felt – realized – not a dry dead creed – not a few notions not a Sandemanian belief – but a loving, operative, divine faith, which lays hold of Christ by the power of the Holy Ghost. If the term Sandemanian be new to you, your good friend Mr. P. will explain it I have no doubt. A doctrine that came in its present form, from his country though a weed that has its habitat in every country; for the work of Satan is to substitute notion for life – and to put apart the letter of the word & the spirit of God – thus deceiving souls with a natural faith instead of a “faith of the operations of God.”

I mean to send this via Liverpool & so thank dear Ben’s for his pussy.

Your Aunts are all well.

I have no news of any kind for you dearest Dinah.

Did you lose Aunt E's portend? If so tell me, & you shall have another.

Farewell dear pet niece & Believe me your loving old aunt Alicia —

Miss Mulock care of Miss Lovell of Morninton Mornington Crescent London

"Pratly" is an archaic spelling of the adverb "prettily," which Aunt Alicia Mulock used to mean "gently, softly, quietly" (OED "prettily, n.", 2b.) According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Alica Mulock's spelling is characteristic of the English North.