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This letter is written on personalized "D.M.M." stationary. Dinah's maiden initials are embossed in an ornate pattern on the top-center of the page.
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.
Thanks for your prompt reading, & kindly criticism — both of which are always valuable — whether satisfactory or not. — And believe me
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