Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Anna Maria Hall, before 1865

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                    <salute>My dear <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#HallAnnaMaria">Mrs.
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                <p> So glad that you &amp; <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#HallSamuelCarter">Mr.
                        Hall</persName> are well – &amp; <persName>Fanny</persName> &amp;
                        <persName>Sanford</persName> so happy. – Is it true what the papers say that
                    you are to edit a girl’s magazine? – </p>
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Anna Maria Hall, before 1865. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier 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 Princeton University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM17236 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Anna Maria Hall, before 1865.

This letter is written on Dinah Maria Mulock's personalized stationary. There is an embossment centred in the top fifth of the page that has her initials "DMM" centred within an ornate frame.

 Box 6, Folder 24

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.
My dear Mrs. Hall

I have been here five weeks – & Mrs. Laing comes to me on Monday next – when I hope to hear all about you. – To answer questions. – — And I have no Photo: – extant. – so dear friend you must just imagine me.—

So glad that you & Mr. Hall are well – & Fanny & Sanford so happy. – Is it true what the papers say that you are to edit a girl’s magazine? –

I go home on 19:th March – after a long absence of two months – which has done me great good. But Mrs. Laing will tell you my news – which is nihil – – as I look to her to tell me all yours. – Goodbye now – my dear old friend.

Ever yours after DMM

The Author Of John Halifax

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Anna Maria Hall, before 1865. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier 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 Princeton University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM17236 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Anna Maria Hall, before 1865.

This letter is written on Dinah Maria Mulock's personalized stationary. There is an embossment centred in the top fifth of the page that has her initials "DMM" centred within an ornate frame.

 Box 6, Folder 24

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.
My dear Mrs. Hall

I have been here five weeks – & Mrs. Laing comes to me on Monday next – when I hope to hear all about you. – To answer questions. – — And I have no Photo: – extant. – so dear friend you must just imagine me.—

So glad that you & Mr. Hall are well – & Fanny & Sanford so happy. – Is it true what the papers say that you are to edit a girl’s magazine? –

I go home on 19:th March – after a long absence of two months – which has done me great good. But Mrs. Laing will tell you my news – which is nihil – – as I look to her to tell me all yours. – Goodbye now – my dear old friend.

Ever yours after DMM

The Author Of John Halifax