Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, c. 16 October 1848

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                <p>Thanks for the cheque – <measure type="currency">£50</measure> – &amp; I will
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, c. 16 October 1848. 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 Second Proofing of TEI encoding August 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 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 8610.3 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, c. 16 October 1848.

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.
Oct October 16 th Dear Mr. Chapman

Thanks for the cheque – £50 – & I will probably not ask for the other £50 – till I ask for the whole sum on publication. Which, by the way – when will it be? Before or after Mrs. Gaskill Gaskell ? – No proofs have come for a long time – when they do they had better come here – 7. Mornington Crescent – where I stay till my wee house is ready –

– Do you know I had yesterday a question, whether I would write a novel for a magazine – price £400 – – A strong temptation – but I can’t make up my mind. – I won’t write a bad book, even for £400 – & if I find I can work well – I would rather work for you – – However this is merely in future - - I’ll tell you before declining.

– Sampson Low vowed on questioning, that he only mentioned £20 to you! – not £30 – was it true? –

Very sincerely yours DMM –

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, c. 16 October 1848. 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 Second Proofing of TEI encoding August 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 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 8610.3 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, c. 16 October 1848.

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.
Oct October 16 th Dear Mr. Chapman

Thanks for the cheque – £50 – & I will probably not ask for the other £50 – till I ask for the whole sum on publication. Which, by the way – when will it be? Before or after Mrs. Gaskill Gaskell ? – No proofs have come for a long time – when they do they had better come here – 7. Mornington Crescent – where I stay till my wee house is ready –

– Do you know I had yesterday a question, whether I would write a novel for a magazine – price £400 – – A strong temptation – but I can’t make up my mind. – I won’t write a bad book, even for £400 – & if I find I can work well – I would rather work for you – – However this is merely in future - - I’ll tell you before declining.

– Sampson Low vowed on questioning, that he only mentioned £20 to you! – not £30 – was it true? –

Very sincerely yours DMM –