Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 9 August 1864.

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                        >Mrs. Oliphant</persName> or others — for continuous stories: — as for some
                    things I should like this book of mine to be anonymous at first. — But unless I
                    were quite certain of profiting thereby, I would not care to make any
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                <p>I had also another reason for writing, which I may as well say plainly: — I
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                    it would in many ways be satisfactory to me. — I should like to know what you
                    pay for magazine articles — &amp; also to come to you with one or two little
                    books — for young people — which I am planning: for I do not at present mean to
                    write any more novels. — </p>
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 9 August 1864. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding 27 April 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 9 August 1864.

This letter is written on personalized "D.M.M." stationary. Dinah's maiden initials are embossed in an ornate pattern on the top-center of the first page.

 MS 4189; Folio 255

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.

Wemyss Bay Greenock – Aug August 9 th — Dear Sir

I fear on such a doubtful chance — I could not send my M.S. manuscript — In truth, for years all my M.S.S. manuscripts have gone direct from me to the printer. What I wanted was to get some idea of what you do pay — Mrs. Oliphant or others — for continuous stories: — as for some things I should like this book of mine to be anonymous at first. — But unless I were quite certain of profiting thereby, I would not care to make any change.

I had also another reason for writing, which I may as well say plainly: — I should like to enter into business relations with you. Now that my permanent house is in Scotland — it would in many ways be satisfactory to me. — I should like to know what you pay for magazine articles — & also to come to you with one or two little books — for young people — which I am planning: for I do not at present mean to write any more novels. —

I am sure you will answer this letter — confidentially of course — if you can: — if not — we must just let the matter rest —

And believe me Yours very truly DMMulock. –

John Blackwood Esq.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 9 August 1864. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding 27 April 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 9 August 1864.

This letter is written on personalized "D.M.M." stationary. Dinah's maiden initials are embossed in an ornate pattern on the top-center of the first page.

 MS 4189; Folio 255

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.

Wemyss Bay Greenock – Aug August 9 th — Dear Sir

I fear on such a doubtful chance — I could not send my M.S. manuscript — In truth, for years all my M.S.S. manuscripts have gone direct from me to the printer. What I wanted was to get some idea of what you do pay — Mrs. Oliphant or others — for continuous stories: — as for some things I should like this book of mine to be anonymous at first. — But unless I were quite certain of profiting thereby, I would not care to make any change.

I had also another reason for writing, which I may as well say plainly: — I should like to enter into business relations with you. Now that my permanent house is in Scotland — it would in many ways be satisfactory to me. — I should like to know what you pay for magazine articles — & also to come to you with one or two little books — for young people — which I am planning: for I do not at present mean to write any more novels. —

I am sure you will answer this letter — confidentially of course — if you can: — if not — we must just let the matter rest —

And believe me Yours very truly DMMulock. –

John Blackwood Esq.