Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Walter Severn, 25 October 1881.

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                <p> — This draft I also enclose — you can make what all you please of either it or
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Walter Severn, 25 October 1881. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription June 2014 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding 5 May 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding 12 May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Harvard University Houghton Library Modern Books & Manuscripts Collection Joseph Severn Papers MS Eng 1434, 356 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Walter Severn, 25 October 1881.

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.
Oct October 25 — /81 1881 . The Corner House Shortlands, Kent. Dear Mr. Severn,

After reading these inscriptions, & writing my own — which was approved by my husband & Mr. Anderson — I sent the whole packet to Sir Noel Paton — who though he never met your father, has always had an extreme tenderness for him. — He answers:

"After careful consideration I am of the opinion that the one by the son & artist tho' not perfect, is preferable to those by you literary swills. — He seizes the really salient points of his father's life — you miss some of these & introduce irrelevant matter – c. q. cadit quaestio – It is unnecessary to record that Severn — survived by his illustrious friend fifty-eight years: the point is unimportant & moreover is proved by the dates given. No more is it necessary to record that Keats is not numbered among the immortal dead poets of England. — The fact is known to all the civilized world: — I venture to enclose a draft in which I have attempted to bring together the best points of all the other inscriptions — with what success it is not for me to judge." —

— This draft I also enclose — you can make what all you please of either it or mine. —

I must say, I incline to think Sir Noel Paton's the best of all the various attempts — including my own.

Very truly yours, DMCraik —
1 C.q. is a Latin copywriting abbreviation meaning that the fact in question has been verified and therefore can no longer be disputed. It is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as "the case is closed." "Cadit quaestrio." Merriam-Webster Dictionary, online ed., accessed 16 May 2017. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cadit quaestio.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Walter Severn, 25 October 1881. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription June 2014 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding 5 May 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding 12 May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Harvard University Houghton Library Modern Books & Manuscripts Collection Joseph Severn Papers MS Eng 1434, 356 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Walter Severn, 25 October 1881.

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.
Oct October 25 — / 81 1881 . The Corner House Shortlands, Kent. Dear Mr. Severn,

After reading these inscriptions, & writing my own — which was approved by my husband & Mr. Anderson — I sent the whole packet to Sir Noel Paton — who though he never met your father, has always had an extreme tenderness for him. — He answers:

"After careful consideration I am of the opinion that the one by the son & artist tho' not perfect, is preferable to those by you literary swills. — He seizes the really salient points of his father's life — you miss some of these & introduce irrelevant matter – c. q. cadit quaestio – It is unnecessary to record that Severn — survived by his illustrious friend fifty-eight years: the point is unimportant & moreover is proved by the dates given. No more is it necessary to record that Keats is not numbered among the immortal dead poets of England. — The fact is known to all the civilized world: — I venture to enclose a draft in which I have attempted to bring together the best points of all the other inscriptions — with what success it is not for me to judge." —

— This draft I also enclose — you can make what all you please of either it or mine. —

I must say, I incline to think Sir Noel Paton's the best of all the various attempts — including my own.

Very truly yours, DMCraik —
C.q. is a Latin copywriting abbreviation meaning that the fact in question has been verified and therefore can no longer be disputed. It is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as "the case is closed." "Cadit quaestrio." Merriam-Webster Dictionary, online ed., accessed 16 May 2017. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cadit quaestio.