Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Leitch Ritchie, 20 October c. 1850.

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                <p>This story is by my little <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MissJames"
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                <p>Also is this not a nice poem of hers? — Please, <persName
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                    young lassie to plume her wings — if you can.</p>
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                        This has missed the Post — so I unseal it to say that yours has just arrived
                        — I know I'm a demon — a wretch — but never mind — <lb/> You are extremely
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Leitch Ritchie, 20 October c. 1850. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Leitch Ritchie, 20 October c. 1850. MS 99; Folio 14

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.

My dear Mr. Ritchie

This story is by my little Marian — whom I have so often spoken about — I think it very good & just suited for the Journal — I hope you & Mr. R. C. will also think the same. —

Also is this not a nice poem of hers? — Please, Mr. Ritchie, help this young lassie to plume her wings — if you can.

Ever sincerely yrs yours — DMMulock —

Oct. 20th —– P.S. 6 P.M. This has missed the Post — so I unseal it to say that yours has just arrived — I know I'm a demon — a wretch — but never mind — You are extremely kind always — & to everybody —

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Leitch Ritchie, 20 October c. 1850. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Leitch Ritchie, 20 October c. 1850. MS 99; Folio 14

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.

My dear Mr. Ritchie

This story is by my little Marian — whom I have so often spoken about — I think it very good & just suited for the Journal — I hope you & Mr. R. C. will also think the same. —

Also is this not a nice poem of hers? — Please, Mr. Ritchie, help this young lassie to plume her wings — if you can.

Ever sincerely yrs yours — DMMulock —

Oct. 20th —– P.S. 6 P.M. This has missed the Post — so I unseal it to say that yours has just arrived — I know I'm a demon — a wretch — but never mind — You are extremely kind always — & to everybody —