Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 21 January 1879

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                    </choice>15<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> - I have expected each day to hear
                    from you - both with this cheque &amp; with another for <persName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#HolmanHunt">Mr. Holman Hunt,</persName> concerning
                    which I wrote you lately: - but in vain.- Excuse my reminding you of these
                    “overlooks” - which however in such times as the present make one rather
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 21 January 1879. 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 February 2017 by Kelsey Jacobi TEI encoding February 2017 by Kelsey Jacobi Proofing of TEI encoding March 2017 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, March 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

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 AM16849 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 21 January 1879.

The letter is written on stationary with the text The Corner House,     Shortlands, Kent.

Box 6, Folder 26

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 hyphenatedat 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.
21Jan. January 1879 Dear Mr. Isbister

If you look to our agreement, you will see that I was to receive £400 on Jan January 15th - I have expected each day to hear from you - both with this cheque & with another for Mr. Holman Hunt, concerning which I wrote you lately: - but in vain.- Excuse my reminding you of these “overlooks” - which however in such times as the present make one rather uncomfortable. -

very sincerely yours DMCraik -

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 21 January 1879. 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 February 2017 by Kelsey Jacobi TEI encoding February 2017 by Kelsey Jacobi Proofing of TEI encoding March 2017 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, March 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

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 AM16849 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 21 January 1879.

The letter is written on stationary with the text The Corner House,     Shortlands, Kent.

Box 6, Folder 26

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 hyphenatedat 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.
21 Jan. January 1879 Dear Mr. Isbister

If you look to our agreement, you will see that I was to receive £400 on Jan January 15th - I have expected each day to hear from you - both with this cheque & with another for Mr. Holman Hunt, concerning which I wrote you lately: - but in vain.- Excuse my reminding you of these “overlooks” - which however in such times as the present make one rather uncomfortable. -

very sincerely yours DMCraik -