Reproduced by courtesy of the
In the top-right corner, under the date, there is a stamp that reads:
"The Corner House,
Shortlands, Kent."
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.
We have never met – but I think my forty years of literary work cannot be unknown
to you – will you let me add your honored name to the list of signatures for a
less fortunate author than either you or I – whom you may also have known
yourself in our dear
I often hear of you – through mutual friends – the
I was