Letter from Jane Hooper to Dinah Mulock Craik, 27 October 1865 & Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 3 November 1865.

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                <p> It is not of much consequence, but it is of a little, that I should tell you I
                    refreshed myself after my new servant came in last night, &amp; all the
                    “infinitely little” of domestic trouble had smootehd itself into peace &amp;
                    sleep, with the last volume of “<title corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Agnes"
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                <p>I say this because it seems to me that I was cold and ungenerous when you spoke
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                <closer> – With kind regards to <rs type="person"
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikGeorge">your husband</rs><lb/> I
                    remain<lb/>Yours truly<lb/>
                    <signed><persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#HooperJane">Jane
                        Hooper</persName></signed>
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                    doubts may trouble weaker souls long after you have conquered them &amp; lived
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Letter from Jane Hooper to Dinah Mulock Craik, 27 October 1865 & Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 3 November 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 Hannah Anderson TEI encoding April 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson 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 Jane Hooper to Dinah Mulock Craik, 27 October 1865 & Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 3 November 1865.

The letter from Dinah Craik to Margaret Oliphant is written directly onto the last two pages of the letter from Jane Hooper to Dinah Craik. There is an envelope to accompany these two letters.

 MS2310; Folio 58–60

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.

46 Bedford Gardens Kensington Friday [27 Oct 1865] Dear Mrs. Craik,

It is not of much consequence, but it is of a little, that I should tell you I refreshed myself after my new servant came in last night, & all the “infinitely little” of domestic trouble had smootehd itself into peace & sleep, with the last volume of “Agnes”, & turned each to the others with a free mind & cause to see that it is as you said, a beautiful book. – I fancy I must have spoken slightingly of it – but I ought to have said that I had not done more than read part of the first vol. volume Which I liked very much & look at the rest in snatches between cooking & house work & visitors & the long etcetera of every day life – without those blessings of servants –

“Agnes” is beautiful & sorrowful but Mrs. Oliphant has made “Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's Self”. It is perfectly true too. I know it, though I have never lost a little one.”

I say this because it seems to me that I was cold and ungenerous when you spoke warm words of praise of a book you had been reading and loved, or liked heartily – and I suppose a book, to you as to me, is a loving thing. At all events Agnes has lead led the spirit of maternal love & grief put into it.

– I hope you reached Bayswater Terrace safely & that you found Mrs. Oliphant & her little ones well

– With kind regards to your husband I remainYours truly Jane Hooper
Dear friend

I don't know if you will care for this — but you can read & burn it. — Nevertheless, I dare say to you what I would not say to the world — that I think you will yet be sorry for having written “Agnes”: — because it does not “justify the ways of God to men” — & its doubts may trouble weaker souls long after you have conquered them & lived to see that His ways are right. — & His mercy endureth forever. —

Always yours DMC

3 November 1865 Mrs. Oliphant 15 Bayswater Terrace Bayswater W. West

1 Jane Hooper likely made an error here. Margaret Oliphant was staying at Bayswater Road in October 1865, not Bayswater Terrace. Margaret Oliphant, "Margaret Oliphant: A Brief Chronology," Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant, ed. Elisabeth Jay (Broadview P, 2002), 169.

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Letter from Jane Hooper to Dinah Mulock Craik, 27 October 1865 & Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 3 November 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 Hannah Anderson TEI encoding April 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson 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 Jane Hooper to Dinah Mulock Craik, 27 October 1865 & Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Margaret Oliphant, 3 November 1865.

The letter from Dinah Craik to Margaret Oliphant is written directly onto the last two pages of the letter from Jane Hooper to Dinah Craik. There is an envelope to accompany these two letters.

 MS2310; Folio 58–60

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.

46 Bedford Gardens Kensington Friday [27 Oct 1865] Dear Mrs. Craik,

It is not of much consequence, but it is of a little, that I should tell you I refreshed myself after my new servant came in last night, & all the “infinitely little” of domestic trouble had smootehd itself into peace & sleep, with the last volume of “Agnes”, & turned each to the others with a free mind & cause to see that it is as you said, a beautiful book. – I fancy I must have spoken slightingly of it – but I ought to have said that I had not done more than read part of the first vol. volume Which I liked very much & look at the rest in snatches between cooking & house work & visitors & the long etcetera of every day life – without those blessings of servants –

“Agnes” is beautiful & sorrowful but Mrs. Oliphant has made “Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's Self”. It is perfectly true too. I know it, though I have never lost a little one.”

I say this because it seems to me that I was cold and ungenerous when you spoke warm words of praise of a book you had been reading and loved, or liked heartily – and I suppose a book, to you as to me, is a loving thing. At all events Agnes has lead led the spirit of maternal love & grief put into it.

– I hope you reached Bayswater Terrace safely & that you found Mrs. Oliphant & her little ones well

– With kind regards to your husband I remainYours truly Jane Hooper
Dear friend

I don't know if you will care for this — but you can read & burn it. — Nevertheless, I dare say to you what I would not say to the world — that I think you will yet be sorry for having written “Agnes”: — because it does not “justify the ways of God to men” — & its doubts may trouble weaker souls long after you have conquered them & lived to see that His ways are right. — & His mercy endureth forever. —

Always yours DMC

3 November 1865 Mrs. Oliphant 15 Bayswater Terrace Bayswater W. West

Jane Hooper likely made an error here. Margaret Oliphant was staying at Bayswater Road in October 1865, not Bayswater Terrace. Margaret Oliphant, "Margaret Oliphant: A Brief Chronology," Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant, ed. Elisabeth Jay (Broadview P, 2002), 169.