Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 10 June 1860.

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                    I talked much of you — &amp; were very glad to hear of you &amp; yours. She has
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                <p>I hope yet to meet somewhere you &amp; your little ones. &amp; revive the old
                    feeling which was always strong towards you — even from the day when I took
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                <p>Some of those days I hope you will come &amp; see me — babies &amp; all. I have a
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 10 June 1860. 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 Hannah Anderson TEI encoding April 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson 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 Margaret Oliphant, 10 June 1860. MS2310; Folio 39

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.

Wildwood North End, Hampstead June 10th: — My dear Mrs. Oliphant

When your letter came I had a houseful of little Macmillans — I thought I would wait till after they were gone — & have waited still longer.

Mrs. Daniel & I talked much of you — & were very glad to hear of you & yours. She has known sorrow & feels with you keenly. She is a good woman. —

I hope yet to meet somewhere you & your little ones. & revive the old feeling which was always strong towards you — even from the day when I took little Maggie as a bit baby of two days old in my arms. — You will yet take great comfort in your children. It seems often to old maids as if mothers could never be desolate.

Some of those days I hope you will come & see me — babies & all. I have a cosie wee house with such a big “nursery” at the top of it: where the Macmillan boys made themselves very happy. — I think I never was so well or so content in my life — the two things always going together — as I have been since I came to live at Hampstead. Shortly, I let my house for the summer & go away for three months to Scotland — which is very pleasant: for Scotland is more like home than anywhere & always was. — But I am always to be heard of at the address I give: — my “ain wee housie,” — at Hampstead. — Do not let us quite slip asunder — let me hear of you sometimes.

And believe me ever faithfully yours DMMulock. —

I don't think I am given to saying much any more than you. — but do not suppose I don't feel. I have managed to get secondhand news of you all this while — God bless you — dear friend. —

Mrs. Oliphant 13 Bath Street Claughton Birkenhead Liverpool

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 10 June 1860. 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 Hannah Anderson TEI encoding April 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson 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 Margaret Oliphant, 10 June 1860. MS2310; Folio 39

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.

Wildwood North End, Hampstead June 10th: — My dear Mrs. Oliphant

When your letter came I had a houseful of little Macmillans — I thought I would wait till after they were gone — & have waited still longer.

Mrs. Daniel & I talked much of you — & were very glad to hear of you & yours. She has known sorrow & feels with you keenly. She is a good woman. —

I hope yet to meet somewhere you & your little ones. & revive the old feeling which was always strong towards you — even from the day when I took little Maggie as a bit baby of two days old in my arms. — You will yet take great comfort in your children. It seems often to old maids as if mothers could never be desolate.

Some of those days I hope you will come & see me — babies & all. I have a cosie wee house with such a big “nursery” at the top of it: where the Macmillan boys made themselves very happy. — I think I never was so well or so content in my life — the two things always going together — as I have been since I came to live at Hampstead. Shortly, I let my house for the summer & go away for three months to Scotland — which is very pleasant: for Scotland is more like home than anywhere & always was. — But I am always to be heard of at the address I give: — my “ain wee housie,” — at Hampstead. — Do not let us quite slip asunder — let me hear of you sometimes.

And believe me ever faithfully yours DMMulock. —

I don't think I am given to saying much any more than you. — but do not suppose I don't feel. I have managed to get secondhand news of you all this while — God bless you — dear friend. —

Mrs. Oliphant 13 Bath Street Claughton Birkenhead Liverpool