Reproduced by courtesy of the
This is a single-page letter written on personalized Corner House
stationary. The address "THE CORNER HOUSE
SHORTLANDS KENT" is
embossed onto the top-right of the page. In the top-centre, there is an embossed
stamp. The stamp depicts a ship's anchor. Above the anchor, an ornate
ribbon reads: "TEN DIMES."
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 faciliate searching. The long s is not encoded.
I am sorry to hurry you – but I must beg an answer to my letter by
Will you therefore let me hear without fail? –