Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rodick, 29 August 1859

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                <p>Will you read the enclosed – from <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#LovellMinna"
                        >Miss Lovell</persName> whom you saw here – &amp; do what you can? – I shall
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                <p><persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Christopher">Christopher</persName> sends his
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                    baby – Love to <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#HerfordLaura">Laura</persName>
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rodick, 29 August 1859. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2015

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University .

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM15550 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rodick, 29 August 1859. Box 6, Folder 24

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.

Dear Miss Rodick

Will you read the enclosed – from Miss Lovell whom you saw here – & do what you can? – I shall be so much obliged. –

Christopher sends his kindest love – He has still an awful weakness for kissing & laying his head down & looking up – just like a baby – Love to Laura & best remembrances to the other two of you –

Yours sincerely DMulock – Tell Laura the ancient widow of 33 seems to do well – only I do cooking & am getting quite clever at it. – Wildwood 29th Augst August

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rodick, 29 August 1859. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2015

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University .

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM15550 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rodick, 29 August 1859. Box 6, Folder 24

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.

Dear Miss Rodick

Will you read the enclosed – from Miss Lovell whom you saw here – & do what you can? – I shall be so much obliged. –

Christopher sends his kindest love – He has still an awful weakness for kissing & laying his head down & looking up – just like a baby – Love to Laura & best remembrances to the other two of you –

Yours sincerely DMulock – Tell Laura the ancient widow of 33 seems to do well – only I do cooking & am getting quite clever at it. – Wildwood 29th Augst August