Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 7 August 1885

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               <salute>My darling child</salute>
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            <p>You would get my letter &amp; see that I have managed the bonnet question. It will
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            <p>– here is your blue ribbon. Any thing else you want? – Are you <hi rend="underline"
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            <p>Now here is some business which I know you are as capable of doing as anybody. – Last
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               rather invalid lady &amp; her two daughters – (I am not sure that there are not
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 7 August 1885. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription February-March 2015 by Sidney Cunningham First proofing of transcription February-March 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Second proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Janice Parker TEI encoding by February-March 2015 by Sidney Cunningham First proofing of TEI encoding February-March 2015 by Jaclyn Carter 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 2015

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, 7 August 1885. 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, abbrieviations, 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.

Aug August 7 - /85 1885 The Corner House Shortlands, R. O. Kent My darling child

You would get my letter & see that I have managed the bonnet question. It will turn up in Oct I dare say – yours is most practical & sensible – I wonder how all has gone with you in that dreadful rain – I hope you are all settled down now –

– here is your blue ribbon. Any thing else you want? – Are you sure your clothes will be warm enough? – It has turned quite winterly now – fires – & soaking rain. –

Now here is some business which I know you are as capable of doing as anybody. – Last night I met at the Western's their cousin Miss Atkinson – who lives next door but one to the Pilkingtons & is very fond of them all. – She – Miss. A – has to join her mother & father at Rothesay next week – But they have heard so ill an account of Rothesay that she thinks Arran would be much better. They want to stay till October – would like best lodgings – 4 bedrooms & a sitting-room – as they can bring no plate linen or servants. – But lodgings are impossible at Arran.– Would you go to Mrs. Macdonald & state the case – & to ask whether she would take them on pension – an old & rather invalid lady & her two daughters – (I am not sure that there are not three) – and what she would take them for per week each – considering that they stay till October. – Also, will you find out whether there is any doctor on the Island except Dr. JamiesonDr. Fullarton is dead I know. – & what Miss Stoddart thinks of him if any[thing]. – Miss Atkinson you may have seen. She is very nice. – & I am glad to do anything for her. Now I know you will do this in the most sensible & accurate way. & write fully the result – & I shall get the letter on Monday or Tuesday –

We go to to Salton tomorrow till Monday – I have only a minute before post –

Your loving Mother

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 7 August 1885. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription February-March 2015 by Sidney Cunningham First proofing of transcription February-March 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Second proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Janice Parker TEI encoding by February-March 2015 by Sidney Cunningham First proofing of TEI encoding February-March 2015 by Jaclyn Carter 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 2015

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, 7 August 1885. 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, abbrieviations, 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.

Aug August 7 - /85 1885 The Corner House Shortlands, R. O. Kent My darling child

You would get my letter & see that I have managed the bonnet question. It will turn up in Oct I dare say – yours is most practical & sensible – I wonder how all has gone with you in that dreadful rain – I hope you are all settled down now –

– here is your blue ribbon. Any thing else you want? – Are you sure your clothes will be warm enough? – It has turned quite winterly now – fires – & soaking rain. –

Now here is some business which I know you are as capable of doing as anybody. – Last night I met at the Western's their cousin Miss Atkinson – who lives next door but one to the Pilkingtons & is very fond of them all. – She – Miss. A – has to join her mother & father at Rothesay next week – But they have heard so ill an account of Rothesay that she thinks Arran would be much better. They want to stay till October – would like best lodgings – 4 bedrooms & a sitting-room – as they can bring no plate linen or servants. – But lodgings are impossible at Arran.– Would you go to Mrs. Macdonald & state the case – & to ask whether she would take them on pension – an old & rather invalid lady & her two daughters – (I am not sure that there are not three) – and what she would take them for per week each – considering that they stay till October. – Also, will you find out whether there is any doctor on the Island except Dr. JamiesonDr. Fullarton is dead I know. – & what Miss Stoddart thinks of him if any[thing]. – Miss Atkinson you may have seen. She is very nice. – & I am glad to do anything for her. Now I know you will do this in the most sensible & accurate way. & write fully the result – & I shall get the letter on Monday or Tuesday –

We go to to Salton tomorrow till Monday – I have only a minute before post –

Your loving Mother