Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, between 12 March and 31 December 1857

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                <p>I do not often ask a <choice>
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                        II</title>”<anchor xml:id="n1"/> be played again – will you give me two
                    orders – not for myself but for two country friends who are here but for a very
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                    nature in any shape better than sham “drama” which is usually anything <hi
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                <p>Pardon this from one who never till now saw one of your “revivals” &amp; has no
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                        Richard II., Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, between 12 March and 31 December 1857. 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 AM21667 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, between 12 March and 31 December 1857. 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.
Dear Sir

I do not often ask a favor favour – this one I might ask at second-hand: but prefer writing direct to you. If “Richard II” be played again – will you give me two orders – not for myself but for two country friends who are here but for a very short time. I am anything but a play-goer – As theatres are now – & never saw “Richard II” till a few days since – but I don’t think I will ever forget it: – such a thorough bit out of English history – such a satisfying mouthful of Shakespeare – we, who like nature in any shape better than sham “drama” which is usually anything but nature – owe you a very great deal. –

Pardon this from one who never till now saw one of your “revivals” & has no right but only this pleasure of saying it. –

Yours very truly, Dinah Mulock – Lynover Cottage – Kilburn
1 Dinah is probably referring to Charles Kean’s 1857 revival of Richard II. Kean's production of Shakespeare's play was first performed at the Princess's Theatre, London on March 12, 1857 and had a run of 112 performances in the same year. These dates coincide with Dinah's residence at Lynover Cottage (c. 1855-1858). Charles Kean, Shakespeare's Play King Richard II., Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes, (London: John K. Chapman & Co, 1857). M. Glen Wilson, "Charles Kean's Production of 'Richard II'," Educational Theatre Journal 19, no. 1 (1967): 42.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, between 12 March and 31 December 1857. 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 AM21667 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Unknown Recipient, between 12 March and 31 December 1857. 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.
Dear Sir

I do not often ask a favor favour – this one I might ask at second-hand: but prefer writing direct to you. If “Richard II” be played again – will you give me two orders – not for myself but for two country friends who are here but for a very short time. I am anything but a play-goer – As theatres are now – & never saw “Richard II” till a few days since – but I don’t think I will ever forget it: – such a thorough bit out of English history – such a satisfying mouthful of Shakespeare – we, who like nature in any shape better than sham “drama” which is usually anything but nature – owe you a very great deal. –

Pardon this from one who never till now saw one of your “revivals” & has no right but only this pleasure of saying it. –

Yours very truly, Dinah Mulock – Lynover Cottage – Kilburn
Dinah is probably referring to Charles Kean’s 1857 revival of Richard II. Kean's production of Shakespeare's play was first performed at the Princess's Theatre, London on March 12, 1857 and had a run of 112 performances in the same year. These dates coincide with Dinah's residence at Lynover Cottage (c. 1855-1858). Charles Kean, Shakespeare's Play King Richard II., Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes, (London: John K. Chapman & Co, 1857). M. Glen Wilson, "Charles Kean's Production of 'Richard II'," Educational Theatre Journal 19, no. 1 (1967): 42.