Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, before 1863.

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                    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
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                <p>How truly I rejoice in the good Providence whereby dear <persName
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                    occupation that will be to his taste and remunerative also. I hope dear love you
                    are not doing too much in your present weak state, <choice>
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                    </choice> I am sure the change will ultimately do you good. I hope you are not
                    writing too hard at any rate you can’t write just now. . . and I’m glad of it. I
                    can fancy you will miss quiet <placeName
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                    of regularity &amp; unbroken seclusion you there enjoyed, but God Knows what is
                    best for us all &amp; our wisdom is to leave Him to arrange our mean affairs,
                    &amp; our great privilege and blessing is to be instructed in the Holy art, of
                    taking all our concerns to Him &amp; having faith given to leave them with Him –
                    as a little Hymn I know says</p>

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                <p>But we are poor fools &amp; our proof is that we think ourselves wise – too wise
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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, before 1863. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of transcription 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 20 December 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 Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, before 1863. Box 1, Folder 10

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.
My dearest Dinah

How truly I rejoice in the good Providence whereby dear Ben is advanced to an occupation that will be to his taste and remunerative also. I hope dear love you are not doing too much in your present weak state, tho’ though I am sure the change will ultimately do you good. I hope you are not writing too hard at any rate you can’t write just now. . . and I’m glad of it. I can fancy you will miss quiet Linacre and the life of regularity & unbroken seclusion you there enjoyed, but God Knows what is best for us all & our wisdom is to leave Him to arrange our mean affairs, & our great privilege and blessing is to be instructed in the Holy art, of taking all our concerns to Him & having faith given to leave them with Him – as a little Hymn I know says

Since all the downward tracts of time God’s watchful eye surveys O who so wise to chose our lot Or regulate our ways –

But we are poor fools & our proof is that we think ourselves wise – too wise to need a guide, & so do not seek help where above it is to be found.

We are all well, & send abundance of love to you & dear Ben. If he makes all the people look as well as himself it will do famously.

Ever your fond Aunty ABM
1 This is the first stanza from a popular common metre hymn.

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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, before 1863. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of transcription 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 20 December 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 Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, before 1863. Box 1, Folder 10

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.
My dearest Dinah

How truly I rejoice in the good Providence whereby dear Ben is advanced to an occupation that will be to his taste and remunerative also. I hope dear love you are not doing too much in your present weak state, tho’ though I am sure the change will ultimately do you good. I hope you are not writing too hard at any rate you can’t write just now. . . and I’m glad of it. I can fancy you will miss quiet Linacre and the life of regularity & unbroken seclusion you there enjoyed, but God Knows what is best for us all & our wisdom is to leave Him to arrange our mean affairs, & our great privilege and blessing is to be instructed in the Holy art, of taking all our concerns to Him & having faith given to leave them with Him – as a little Hymn I know says

Since all the downward tracts of time God’s watchful eye surveys O who so wise to chose our lot Or regulate our ways –

But we are poor fools & our proof is that we think ourselves wise – too wise to need a guide, & so do not seek help where above it is to be found.

We are all well, & send abundance of love to you & dear Ben. If he makes all the people look as well as himself it will do famously.

Ever your fond Aunty ABM
This is the first stanza from a popular common metre hymn.