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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.
Many thanks for the
What say you to that bargain? And will you answer at once – that I may make up my packet & send it off – “
– Business done – which must be done, run the world as it will – let me say how
sorry I am to hear you have not been well – & in family trouble – I well
remember that kind little old Quaker whom I saw at
Give my love to your wife & babies – whom I would come out to see – but all
going about either on foot or omnibuses, except a little stroll – is quite
impossible to me now – & for a long time. However Novel o