Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 27 September 1887

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 27 September 1887. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription February-March 2015 by Sarah Kent First proofing of transcription February-March 2015 by Janice Parker Second proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Janice Parker TEI encoding by February-March 2015 by Sarah Kent First proofing of TEI encoding February-March 2015 by Janice Parker Second proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Janice Parker Third proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of California at Los Angeles Charles E. Young Research Library Mulock Family Papers 846 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 27 September 1887. Box 2, Folder 15

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.

27 Sep September /87 1887 The Corner House Shortlands, R.O Kent My darling child

I can only write a line – as I am very busy today – things to do but must be done – I suppose I must be content with the day you say – & George will take care of you- but I wish it could have been sooner. Papa & I go to Alderley Edge on Thursday next 29th & home on Saturday night or Sunday – Please come as soon after that as is convenient to Mrs. Pilkington or George- Alexander will settle it with you – & his dear mother will see that all is arranged for your comfort my child-

Your loving Mother –

Better write here - not to Alderley Edge

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 27 September 1887. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription February-March 2015 by Sarah Kent First proofing of transcription February-March 2015 by Janice Parker Second proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Janice Parker TEI encoding by February-March 2015 by Sarah Kent First proofing of TEI encoding February-March 2015 by Janice Parker Second proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Janice Parker Third proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of California at Los Angeles Charles E. Young Research Library Mulock Family Papers 846 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 27 September 1887. Box 2, Folder 15

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.

27 Sep September /87 1887 The Corner House Shortlands, R.O Kent My darling child

I can only write a line – as I am very busy today – things to do but must be done – I suppose I must be content with the day you say – & George will take care of you- but I wish it could have been sooner. Papa & I go to Alderley Edge on Thursday next 29th & home on Saturday night or Sunday – Please come as soon after that as is convenient to Mrs. Pilkington or George- Alexander will settle it with you – & his dear mother will see that all is arranged for your comfort my child-

Your loving Mother –

Better write here - not to Alderley Edge