Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Harper & Brothers Publishing, 5 January 1863

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Harper & Brothers Publishing, 5 January 1863. 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 June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding October 2014 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2015

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 AM19530 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Harper & Brothers Publishing, 5 January 1863. Box 6, Folder 24

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 faciliate searching. The long s is not encoded.
Wildwood Hampstead London Gentlemen

I have had a correspondence with your agent Mr. S. Low about the remainder of the sum agreed on for “Mistress & Maid.” –

Mr. Low paid me £150 – but when the other £150 fell due, he requested me, on your part, to wait: as the high rate of exchange made payment fall heaviy on you. I suggested that if payment were made at once – I would half the difference of the then rate of exchange. He engaged to write to you on the subject – but when the return mail came in he wrote me that you had made no reply. – I therefore address you direct.

It is needless for me to urge to a firm like yours, that an engagement is an engagement – under all circumstances. Nor do I doubt for a moment the ultimate fulfilment of yours. But £150 to your wealthy firm is of very little moment compared to what it is to me – & waiting indefinitely for the chance of exchange falling will be very inconvenient to me. – I shuld have been sorry to press for payment when £150 would have lost you perhaps £200: – but that can be easily avoided by your giving Mr. Low an order to pay me. & debit the same in your next half-yearly settlements with him. It seems to me that this is the simplest & fairest way of settling the matter: – & I should like it settled before I enter into new engagements about my next – or rather my two next books. –

All my relations with your firm have been so satisfactory – & this is so mere an accident – resulting from the unfortunate war – that I am sure I have but to write you in order to have this matter made clear. I remain, Gentleman.

Yours very truly Dinah Mulock – Jan January 5 th /63 1863 . –

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Harper & Brothers Publishing, 5 January 1863. 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 June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding October 2014 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2015

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 AM19530 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Harper & Brothers Publishing, 5 January 1863. Box 6, Folder 24

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 faciliate searching. The long s is not encoded.
Wildwood Hampstead London Gentlemen

I have had a correspondence with your agent Mr. S. Low about the remainder of the sum agreed on for “Mistress & Maid.” –

Mr. Low paid me £150 – but when the other £150 fell due, he requested me, on your part, to wait: as the high rate of exchange made payment fall heaviy on you. I suggested that if payment were made at once – I would half the difference of the then rate of exchange. He engaged to write to you on the subject – but when the return mail came in he wrote me that you had made no reply. – I therefore address you direct.

It is needless for me to urge to a firm like yours, that an engagement is an engagement – under all circumstances. Nor do I doubt for a moment the ultimate fulfilment of yours. But £150 to your wealthy firm is of very little moment compared to what it is to me – & waiting indefinitely for the chance of exchange falling will be very inconvenient to me. – I shuld have been sorry to press for payment when £150 would have lost you perhaps £200: – but that can be easily avoided by your giving Mr. Low an order to pay me. & debit the same in your next half-yearly settlements with him. It seems to me that this is the simplest & fairest way of settling the matter: – & I should like it settled before I enter into new engagements about my next – or rather my two next books. –

All my relations with your firm have been so satisfactory – & this is so mere an accident – resulting from the unfortunate war – that I am sure I have but to write you in order to have this matter made clear. I remain, Gentleman.

Yours very truly Dinah Mulock – Jan January 5 th / 63 1863 . –