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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 facilitate searching. The long s is not encoded.
I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you on
I meant to have called after your daughters & tried to persuade them to come
& see me here — for I am a through "country lady" — & scarcely ever join
in
And believe me — in the name of innumerable Englishwomen to whom you have done good without end —
rd./