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The letter is written on stationary with the text
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.
I have always received
I shall hope to send
Will you read the enclosed letter – (from the son of
– If anything occurs to you concerning good
rich
man – who – like his excellent father, need never
fear the needle’s eye. – He could call on you any day – & talk the
matter over. – As a clerk – or assistant in editorial work – any small certainty – I think you would find