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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 find to my exceeding regret & humiliation, that this book which I thought I had returned has been for a year securely packed in a box – & has now come to light in the general disentombment of things prior to letting the house. Will you ever forgive? –
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