Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Thomas Kibble Hervey, 28 April 1849

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Thomas Kibble Hervey, 28 April 1849. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription March-April 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding March-April 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 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 The Morgan Library and Museum.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive The Morgan Library and Museum Collection of Autograph Letters Signed: London, to Frederic Chapman 8610.1 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Thomas Kibble Hervey, 28 April 1849.

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.
Apr April 28 – / – 49 1849 Dear Mr. Hervey

Most positively I say, that not a single soul except Ben knew the name of the novel The Ogilvies – that I was writing and had finished a novel Mrs. Hall has known all along – but she knew neither title – plot – names of characters – or anything that could lead her to identify it. nor indeed did anyone else. I have kept the secret to the utmost of my power – as I promised.

But Mr. Chapman does not consider how much harder is such a mystery to be kept in the case of an acknowledged writer – mixing in literary society – & a i n that of the author of Jane Eyre & Mrs. Gaskill Gaskell – both living in the country – & previously unknown as authors During the progress of the book

I never made any secret that I was writing a novel – but after my promise to Mr. Chapman I kept the title & everything connected with it – secret. In fact I vexed my old friend Mrs. Hall extremely by declining to tell her – Perhaps you had better send Mr. Chapman this letter – At all events – no possible blame can attach to you. I am very sorry you should have this vexation.

Believe me Always sincerely DMM –

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Thomas Kibble Hervey, 28 April 1849. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription March-April 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding March-April 2015 by Jaclyn Carter Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 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 The Morgan Library and Museum.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive The Morgan Library and Museum Collection of Autograph Letters Signed: London, to Frederic Chapman 8610.1 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Thomas Kibble Hervey, 28 April 1849.

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.
Apr April 28 – / – 49 1849 Dear Mr. Hervey

Most positively I say, that not a single soul except Ben knew the name of the novel The Ogilvies – that I was writing and had finished a novel Mrs. Hall has known all along – but she knew neither title – plot – names of characters – or anything that could lead her to identify it. nor indeed did anyone else. I have kept the secret to the utmost of my power – as I promised.

But Mr. Chapman does not consider how much harder is such a mystery to be kept in the case of an acknowledged writer – mixing in literary society – & a i n that of the author of Jane Eyre & Mrs. Gaskill Gaskell – both living in the country – & previously unknown as authors During the progress of the book

I never made any secret that I was writing a novel – but after my promise to Mr. Chapman I kept the title & everything connected with it – secret. In fact I vexed my old friend Mrs. Hall extremely by declining to tell her – Perhaps you had better send Mr. Chapman this letter – At all events – no possible blame can attach to you. I am very sorry you should have this vexation.

Believe me Always sincerely DMM –