Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 26 January 1879

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                <p>I am sorry to have to return this cheque for <measure type="currency"
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 26 January 1879. 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 February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson TEI encoding February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson Proofing of TEI encoding March 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: March 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

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 AM16849 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 26 January 1879.

The letter is written on stationary with the text The Corner House,     Shortlands, Kent.

Box 6, Folder 26

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 facilitate searching. The long s is not encoded.
Jan January 26th 1879 Dear Mr. Isbister

I am sorry to have to return this cheque for £40. – If you will look at our agreement – you will see it is for £400 on the 15th Jan January – £200 15th July – £200 15th October – 1879. – Will you explain this to the liquidators? – & let me know the result immediately?

– I enclose the receipt for the cheque for “Travelling & Travellers” - £30. – but there is no cheque for Mr. Holman Hunt – £10 – as you said there would be. –

Very truly yours DMCraik

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 26 January 1879. 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 February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson TEI encoding February 2017 by Lecia Givogue Stevenson Proofing of TEI encoding March 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: March 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

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 AM16849 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 26 January 1879.

The letter is written on stationary with the text The Corner House,     Shortlands, Kent.

Box 6, Folder 26

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 facilitate searching. The long s is not encoded.
Jan January 26th 1879 Dear Mr. Isbister

I am sorry to have to return this cheque for £40. – If you will look at our agreement – you will see it is for £400 on the 15th Jan January – £200 15th July – £200 15th October – 1879. – Will you explain this to the liquidators? – & let me know the result immediately?

– I enclose the receipt for the cheque for “Travelling & Travellers” - £30. – but there is no cheque for Mr. Holman Hunt – £10 – as you said there would be. –

Very truly yours DMCraik