Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister, 5 December 1878

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                <p> Thanks for enclosure &amp; for all your trouble with the Dutchman. – <lb/> May I
                        <hi rend="underline">entreat</hi> for proofs at once of <title
                        corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#SavetheChildren">Save the Children</title> here?
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                    — I require to send early sheets to America fully two months ahead – Will you
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister,5 December 1878. 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 2014

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,5 December 1878.

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.
W William Ibister Esq Esquire Messrs Daldy & Ibister 56 Ludgate Hill London E.C. East Central Dec December 9 Herbert Terrace. Dover

Thanks for enclosure & for all your trouble with the Dutchman. – May I entreat for proofs at once of Save the Children here? – by delay in "Travellers" I lost the American copy right reprint of it – a very serious loss to me – as they pay so well. — I require to send early sheets to America fully two months ahead – Will you kindly see to this? —

DMC –

I am here till xmas Christmas . –

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to William Isbister,5 December 1878. 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 2014

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,5 December 1878.

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.
W William Ibister Esq Esquire Messrs Daldy & Ibister 56 Ludgate Hill London E.C. East Central Dec December 9 Herbert Terrace. Dover

Thanks for enclosure & for all your trouble with the Dutchman. – May I entreat for proofs at once of Save the Children here? – by delay in "Travellers" I lost the American copy right reprint of it – a very serious loss to me – as they pay so well. — I require to send early sheets to America fully two months ahead – Will you kindly see to this? —

DMC –

I am here till xmas Christmas . –