Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 25 September 1860

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                        >November next</date> if she can so arrange) to study there for a year or
                    two. – She would like to settle in some English or Scotch family – boarding with
                    them &amp; being free to study in the galleries &amp;c. Do you know of any such
                    family, &amp; can you give an idea of how much living in <placeName
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                <p>– I feel while asking this – that I am asking what will give you many a sad
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 25 September 1860. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2015

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University .

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM19388 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 25 September 1860. Box 6, Folder 24

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 faciliate searching. The long s is not encoded.
25 Sept September : 1860. Largo. – My dear Mrs. Oliphant

I do not know where you are – but hope this will find you somehow for it is to ask a few questions to which I want if possible an immediate answer. –

My friend Miss Paton, sister of Noel Paton, & herself an artist – a modeller – wishes to go to Rome (in November next if she can so arrange) to study there for a year or two. – She would like to settle in some English or Scotch family – boarding with them & being free to study in the galleries &c. Do you know of any such family, & can you give an idea of how much living in Rome in this way would cost a year? – Or any other information that would be useful to my friend? – And if so would you be so kind as to write to me at once. “J Noel Paton’s Esq. 33 George Square Edinburgh.” – & then we can talk it over together before I leave for London – which I do on the 2 nd . Oct October . –

– I feel while asking this – that I am asking what will give you many a sad memory – my dear friend: – & yet I did not know who else to ask that would be dependable. – And unless Miss Paton can get safe & dependable information as to her probable journey & life in Rome, her brother will never let her go.

You must tell me something about yourself & your babies – & what are your plans if settled at all. – I know we shall meet again somewhere. –

Ever after yours DMulock .

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 25 September 1860. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2015

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University .

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM19388 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 25 September 1860. Box 6, Folder 24

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 faciliate searching. The long s is not encoded.
25 Sept September : 1860. Largo. – My dear Mrs. Oliphant

I do not know where you are – but hope this will find you somehow for it is to ask a few questions to which I want if possible an immediate answer. –

My friend Miss Paton, sister of Noel Paton, & herself an artist – a modeller – wishes to go to Rome (in November next if she can so arrange) to study there for a year or two. – She would like to settle in some English or Scotch family – boarding with them & being free to study in the galleries &c. Do you know of any such family, & can you give an idea of how much living in Rome in this way would cost a year? – Or any other information that would be useful to my friend? – And if so would you be so kind as to write to me at once. “J Noel Paton’s Esq. 33 George Square Edinburgh.” – & then we can talk it over together before I leave for London – which I do on the 2 nd . Oct October . –

– I feel while asking this – that I am asking what will give you many a sad memory – my dear friend: – & yet I did not know who else to ask that would be dependable. – And unless Miss Paton can get safe & dependable information as to her probable journey & life in Rome, her brother will never let her go.

You must tell me something about yourself & your babies – & what are your plans if settled at all. – I know we shall meet again somewhere. –

Ever after yours DMulock .