Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, c. 1869

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                    <salute>My very dear <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC"
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                <p>Your letter gave me great pleasure. Only fancy ‘the nursery’ in <placeName
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                    actually tenanted by a live Baby! I feel so glad at the upturning of this little
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                    little tiny thing with you always &amp; watch its growth. I think this tie will
                    be far pleasanter than one with relatives &amp; friends near or distant to watch
                    &amp; worry, spy and find fault. This little thing comes so very providentially
                    that you must feel there is some divine purpose in it. May the lord grant care
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                    and the Babe wanted a home how would I like it?</p>
                <p>Now the Father would be a terrible stumbling block to me. Still if I saw it right
                    I would go a head and leave all the rest. I would not seek after these ties, but
                    when they seem thrust upon you by circumstances and providence that openings,
                    they are of God and to shrink from them is to throw away our own good. The
                    surest endearments of this little one will bring with it a present reward and
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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, c. 1869. 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 December 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, c. 1869. 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.
My very dear Dinah,

Your letter gave me great pleasure. Only fancy ‘the nursery’ in the Corner House being actually tenanted by a live Baby! I feel so glad at the upturning of this little wee waif to cheer you and be unto you as a Daughter. I often thought of your dear Mother's words wishful that your might have a Daughter who would prove to you what you were to her. I hope it may be so: It will be such a pleasure to you to have the little tiny thing with you always & watch its growth. I think this tie will be far pleasanter than one with relatives & friends near or distant to watch & worry, spy and find fault. This little thing comes so very providentially that you must feel there is some divine purpose in it. May the lord grant care and in all that belongs to her future and your comfort.

I can think what a pleasure she is to you both. Privately speaking I had had some sort of the like tie peeping out in the distance – a grieving relative of F's – who will not be of age till next summer has a Baby about 8 Months old – a lovely boy. The girl is in very bad health and I have often thought if she should die and the Babe wanted a home how would I like it?

Now the Father would be a terrible stumbling block to me. Still if I saw it right I would go a head and leave all the rest. I would not seek after these ties, but when they seem thrust upon you by circumstances and providence that openings, they are of God and to shrink from them is to throw away our own good. The surest endearments of this little one will bring with it a present reward and all the love of a child it will bestow upon you both. The care & company of a child is very healthful to the mind, & George will find a constant source of pleasure in his little Dora. I send her little Ladyship a small present for her pinafore, which I hope she will admire. Aunt Annie has been very ill with a bilious cold. Aunt Jane is better and walked up to see Miss P. today – who is a little better, but not much. Uncle F is flourishing, bringing loads of Babies into the world at all hours. Then comes the awful Vaccinations. Such yells & howls, squeals & screeches you never heard. I used to race down with cake & figs, but I am used to it now. F manages them drolly with a white mouse which is wound up like a watch and then runs round the room. The arm of the child is strapped, & the lance in, while the little child is peering after the mouse. It is such fun to F. as never was to see the children laugh over their calamities.

I hope you will let us know from time to time what miss Dora does and next in due course what she says. I shall so delight to hear all about her.

If you can manage it, let us have a photo of her.

My love to George – and with fond affection for yourself.

Your wee Auntie Alice –

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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, c. 1869. 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 December 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, c. 1869. 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.
My very dear Dinah,

Your letter gave me great pleasure. Only fancy ‘the nursery’ in the Corner House being actually tenanted by a live Baby! I feel so glad at the upturning of this little wee waif to cheer you and be unto you as a Daughter. I often thought of your dear Mother's words wishful that your might have a Daughter who would prove to you what you were to her. I hope it may be so: It will be such a pleasure to you to have the little tiny thing with you always & watch its growth. I think this tie will be far pleasanter than one with relatives & friends near or distant to watch & worry, spy and find fault. This little thing comes so very providentially that you must feel there is some divine purpose in it. May the lord grant care and in all that belongs to her future and your comfort.

I can think what a pleasure she is to you both. Privately speaking I had had some sort of the like tie peeping out in the distance – a grieving relative of F's – who will not be of age till next summer has a Baby about 8 Months old – a lovely boy. The girl is in very bad health and I have often thought if she should die and the Babe wanted a home how would I like it?

Now the Father would be a terrible stumbling block to me. Still if I saw it right I would go a head and leave all the rest. I would not seek after these ties, but when they seem thrust upon you by circumstances and providence that openings, they are of God and to shrink from them is to throw away our own good. The surest endearments of this little one will bring with it a present reward and all the love of a child it will bestow upon you both. The care & company of a child is very healthful to the mind, & George will find a constant source of pleasure in his little Dora. I send her little Ladyship a small present for her pinafore, which I hope she will admire. Aunt Annie has been very ill with a bilious cold. Aunt Jane is better and walked up to see Miss P. today – who is a little better, but not much. Uncle F is flourishing, bringing loads of Babies into the world at all hours. Then comes the awful Vaccinations. Such yells & howls, squeals & screeches you never heard. I used to race down with cake & figs, but I am used to it now. F manages them drolly with a white mouse which is wound up like a watch and then runs round the room. The arm of the child is strapped, & the lance in, while the little child is peering after the mouse. It is such fun to F. as never was to see the children laugh over their calamities.

I hope you will let us know from time to time what miss Dora does and next in due course what she says. I shall so delight to hear all about her.

If you can manage it, let us have a photo of her.

My love to George – and with fond affection for yourself.

Your wee Auntie Alice –