Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 31 January 1865.

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                <p>Our last transaction failed — yet I think I profited by your criticism — as after
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                    </choice> tale — which no one has seen yet. I should like it to appear
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                    Are you inclined for this — &amp; if so can you tell me at on average what sum
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 31 January 1865. 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, 31 January 1865.

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 4197; Folio 177

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.

My dear Sir

Our last transaction failed — yet I think I profited by your criticism — as after it I wrote Christian's Mistake over again — & I suppose improved it — for it has succeeded well. —

Since, I have finished another one vol. volume tale — which no one has seen yet. I should like it to appear anonymously in a Magazine, & then to be puslbished as a whole & bound. — Are you inclined for this — & if so can you tell me at on average what sum you would give me for it? — I ask this — because I have fixed a sum in my own mind: — & if you read the M.S. manuscript & then offered me a much less sum — I should only lose time: which I cannot well afford to do. —

It is a Scotch story — though not very Scotch: it has the remarkable peculiarity of being not a love story — & its title is "The Last Earl of Cairnforth".

Yours very truly DMMulock –

Wemyss Bay – Greenock – Jan January 31st /65 1865

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to John Blackwood, 31 January 1865. 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, 31 January 1865.

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 4197; Folio 177

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.

My dear Sir

Our last transaction failed — yet I think I profited by your criticism — as after it I wrote Christian's Mistake over again — & I suppose improved it — for it has succeeded well. —

Since, I have finished another one vol. volume tale — which no one has seen yet. I should like it to appear anonymously in a Magazine, & then to be puslbished as a whole & bound. — Are you inclined for this — & if so can you tell me at on average what sum you would give me for it? — I ask this — because I have fixed a sum in my own mind: — & if you read the M.S. manuscript & then offered me a much less sum — I should only lose time: which I cannot well afford to do. —

It is a Scotch story — though not very Scotch: it has the remarkable peculiarity of being not a love story — & its title is "The Last Earl of Cairnforth".

Yours very truly DMMulock –

Wemyss Bay – Greenock – Jan January 31st /65 1865