Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, 1 June 1887.

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                        <lb/><placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CornerHouse">The Corner
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, 1 June 1887. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription June 2014 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription 9 May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding 4 May 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding 12 May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Harvard University Houghton Library Modern Books & Manuscripts Collection Autograph File C, 1554-2002 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, 1 June 1887.

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.
June 1 — /87 1887 The Corner House Shortlands R.O. Kent. Dear Mr. Richardson

As you may see — I have condensed the enclosed in every possible way that it may be short enough for your use, as I think it will be. — I hear that in Boston & New York, the movement about which it treats is exciting much attention — & I would like to help my American sisters if I can. — Such a House of Rest might be started with you as with us. — Any help or advice that either I or Misses Skinner can give, by letter — I am sure we shall be very glad to give. — You might say so. —

Very truly yours, DMCraik —
1 The "House of Rest" Craik refers to may be the rest cure, which featured most notably in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The rest cure was a late nineteenth-century treatment for neurvous illnesses and was usually prescribed to women. It involved long periods of isolation, force-feeding, and enforced bed-rest. Anne Stiles, "The Rest Cure, 1873-1925," BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History, ed. Dino Franco, Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, accessed 17 May 2017, http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=anne-stiles-the-rest-cure-1873-1925.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, 1 June 1887. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription June 2014 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription 9 May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding 4 May 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding 12 May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Harvard University Houghton Library Modern Books & Manuscripts Collection Autograph File C, 1554-2002 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, 1 June 1887.

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.
June 1 — / 87 1887 The Corner House Shortlands R.O. Kent. Dear Mr. Richardson

As you may see — I have condensed the enclosed in every possible way that it may be short enough for your use, as I think it will be. — I hear that in Boston & New York, the movement about which it treats is exciting much attention — & I would like to help my American sisters if I can. — Such a House of Rest might be started with you as with us. — Any help or advice that either I or Misses Skinner can give, by letter — I am sure we shall be very glad to give. — You might say so. —

Very truly yours, DMCraik —
The "House of Rest" Craik refers to may be the rest cure, which featured most notably in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The rest cure was a late nineteenth-century treatment for neurvous illnesses and was usually prescribed to women. It involved long periods of isolation, force-feeding, and enforced bed-rest. Anne Stiles, "The Rest Cure, 1873-1925," BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History, ed. Dino Franco, Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, accessed 17 May 2017, http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=anne-stiles-the-rest-cure-1873-1925.