Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 27 August 1864.

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                    </choice> with me. You will probably not be in town — but could I not have a
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                        Simpson</persName> on the subject? — On Thursday I shall likely have to
                    cross over to a place called <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Urquhart"
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                        >Fife</placeName> somewhere — though where I know not — returning on
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 27 August 1864. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding 27 April 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 27 August 1864.

This letter is written on personalized "D.M.M." stationary. Dinah's maiden initials are embossed in an ornate pattern on the top-center of the first page.

 MS 4189; Folio 252

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.

Dear Sir

On Wednesday evening — Augst 31st I shall be in Edin. Edinburgh at 33 George Square:— & will bring my M.S. manuscript with me. You will probably not be in town — but could I not have a little talk with Mr. Simpson on the subject? — On Thursday I shall likely have to cross over to a place called Urquhart — in Fife somewhere — though where I know not — returning on Saturday & between whiles I could leave the book for perusal — in the hope of our coming to terms for its publication either in Blackwood — or as a one-volume novel. —

Yours very truly DMMulock —

Wemyss Bay Greenock — August 27th

A line by return will reach me before I leave. — I address these to your house of business as the simplest & quickest

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 27 August 1864. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding 27 April 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 27 August 1864.

This letter is written on personalized "D.M.M." stationary. Dinah's maiden initials are embossed in an ornate pattern on the top-center of the first page.

 MS 4189; Folio 252

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.

Dear Sir

On Wednesday evening — Augst 31st I shall be in Edin. Edinburgh at 33 George Square:— & will bring my M.S. manuscript with me. You will probably not be in town — but could I not have a little talk with Mr. Simpson on the subject? — On Thursday I shall likely have to cross over to a place called Urquhart — in Fife somewhere — though where I know not — returning on Saturday & between whiles I could leave the book for perusal — in the hope of our coming to terms for its publication either in Blackwood — or as a one-volume novel. —

Yours very truly DMMulock —

Wemyss Bay Greenock — August 27th

A line by return will reach me before I leave. — I address these to your house of business as the simplest & quickest