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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.
More than the modification can't alter this paper. It is the strong expression
of what I have longed to express for some time. — Can't help it. — even though
ought to
be said.
I found in your bundle more journals than I used — so I return them with this — & thanks — They are intact — just as sent.
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