Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 12 December 1879

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                <p> I think there is some mistake here – I have always had <measure type="currency"
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 12 December 1879. 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 February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson TEI encoding February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson Proofing of TEI encoding March 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: March 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

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 AM16849 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 12 December 1879. Box 6, Folder 26

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.

Dec. December 12 – 1879 – The Corner House Shortlands, Kent. Dear Mr. Isbister,

I think there is some mistake here – I have always had £3.3 for each poem – will you kindly alter the cheque –

Very truly yours DMCraik

I am planning a series of short papers – as indicated by D. Macleod – whom I hope to see after xmas Christmas in Glasgow, so you may advertise me for 1880.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 12 December 1879. 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 February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson TEI encoding February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson Proofing of TEI encoding March 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: March 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

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 AM16849 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 12 December 1879. Box 6, Folder 26

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.

Dec. December 12 – 1879 – The Corner House Shortlands, Kent. Dear Mr. Isbister,

I think there is some mistake here – I have always had £3.3 for each poem – will you kindly alter the cheque –

Very truly yours DMCraik

I am planning a series of short papers – as indicated by D. Macleod – whom I hope to see after xmas Christmas in Glasgow, so you may advertise me for 1880.