Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Payn, 29 October 1883

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						<placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Corner_House">The Corner
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					<lb/><salute>Dear <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PaynJames">Mr.
							Payn</persName></salute></opener>
				<p>May I introduce to you <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PatonFrederickNoel">Mr.
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						ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PatonJosephNoel">Sir Noel</persName> — &amp; himself
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				<closer><salute>Believe me 
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Payn, 29 October 1883. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription November 2017by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier Second proofing of TEI encoding November 2017 Hannah Anderson First digital edition in TEI, date: November 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University .

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM17690 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Payn, 29 October 1883. Box 6, Folder 25

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 facilitate searching. The long s is not encoded.
29 Oct October – /83 1883 The Corner House Shortlands, Kent. Dear Mr. Payn

May I introduce to you Mr. Frederick Noel-Paton — (son of Sir Noel — & himself an artist as well as a writer — He has a ghost story — illustrated by himself — which I think might suit the “Cornhill.”

In any case you can see his work — & himself — & talk with him about it. —

I have been much interested in the new place of “Cornhill” — & its introduction of new young names instead of worn out old ones — which is always a success —

Believe me Very truly yours DMCraik —

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Payn, 29 October 1883. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription November 2017by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier Second proofing of TEI encoding November 2017 Hannah Anderson First digital edition in TEI, date: November 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University .

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM17690 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Payn, 29 October 1883. Box 6, Folder 25

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 facilitate searching. The long s is not encoded.
29 Oct October – / 83 1883 The Corner House Shortlands, Kent. Dear Mr. Payn

May I introduce to you Mr. Frederick Noel-Paton — (son of Sir Noel — & himself an artist as well as a writer — He has a ghost story — illustrated by himself — which I think might suit the “Cornhill.”

In any case you can see his work — & himself — & talk with him about it. —

I have been much interested in the new place of “Cornhill” — & its introduction of new young names instead of worn out old ones — which is always a success —

Believe me Very truly yours DMCraik —