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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 facilitate searching. The long s is not encoded.
My last letter turned out a sort of congratulation — this came rather late — but not the less with warm sincerity.
My benison on the wee thing — & may she grow up to be to you both the blessing & comfort that an eldest daughter can be. May she have a happy life full of love — Which to a woman is beyond all greatness!
We must certainly project an alliance between
Is eyes look when
they rest on her baby? —
It will be a grand sight to see
I look daily for
th 1851.