Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 8 September 1864.

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 8 September 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, 8 September 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 page.

 MS 4189; Folio 256

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

Thanks for your prompt reading, & kindly criticism — both of which are always valuable — whether satisfactory or not. — And believe me

Yours very truly DMMulock

Wemyss Bay Sep September 8th —

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 8 September 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, 8 September 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 page.

 MS 4189; Folio 256

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

Thanks for your prompt reading, & kindly criticism — both of which are always valuable — whether satisfactory or not. — And believe me

Yours very truly DMMulock

Wemyss Bay Sep September 8th —