Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Field, 13 March 1863

Vertical Tabs

Reader 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-model href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_ms.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
<?xml-model href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_ms.rng" type="application/xml"
	schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
<!--<?xml-model href="file:/Users/kaileyfukushima/Desktop/Schematron/CraikValidate.sch" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>-->
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
    <teiHeader>
        <fileDesc>
            <titleStmt>
                <title>Letter from <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Dinah Mulock
                        Craik</persName> to <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MrsField">Mrs.
                        Field</persName>, <date when="1863-03-13" precision="medium">13 March
                        1863.</date>
                </title>
                <author ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Dinah Mulock Craik</author>
                <editor ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#BourrierKaren">Karen Bourrier</editor>
                <sponsor>
                    <orgName> Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive </orgName>
                </sponsor>
                <sponsor>University of Calgary</sponsor>
                <principal>Karen Bourrier</principal>
                <respStmt>
                    <resp>Transcription <date when="2008-05">May 2008</date> by</resp>
                    <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#BourrierKaren">Karen Bourrier</persName>
                </respStmt>
                <respStmt>
                    <resp>Proofing of transcription <date from="2015-06" to="2015-07">June-July
                        2015</date> by</resp>
                    <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#FukushimaKailey">Kailey Fukushima</persName>
                </respStmt>
                <respStmt>
                    <resp>TEI encoding <date from="2015-06" to="2015-07">June-July
                        2015</date> by</resp>
                    <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#FukushimaKailey">Kailey Fukushima</persName>
                </respStmt>
                <respStmt>
                    <resp>Proofing of TEI encoding <date from="2015-06" to="2015-07">June-July
                        2015</date> by</resp>
                    <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#BourrierKaren">Karen Bourrier</persName>
                </respStmt>
            </titleStmt>
            <editionStmt>
                <edition> First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 2015. P5. </edition>
            </editionStmt>
            <publicationStmt>
                <authority>Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive</authority>
                <pubPlace>Calgary, Alberta, Canada</pubPlace>
                <date>2015</date>
                <availability>
                    <p> Reproduced by courtesy of the <placeName>Princeton
                        University</placeName>.</p>
                    <licence> Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
                        Unported License.</licence>
                </availability>
            </publicationStmt>
            <seriesStmt>
                <title>Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive</title>
            </seriesStmt>
            <sourceDesc>
                <msDesc>
                    <msIdentifier>
                        <repository ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Princeton">Manuscripts Division,
                            Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University
                            Library.</repository>
                        <collection>M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists</collection>
                        <idno>AM21376</idno>
                    </msIdentifier>
                    <head>Letter from <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Dinah Mulock
                            Craik</persName> to <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MrsField">Mrs.
                            Field</persName>, <date when="1863-03-13" precision="medium">13 March
                            1863.</date>
                    </head>
                    <additional>
                        <adminInfo>
                            <note>Box 6, Folder 24</note>
                        </adminInfo>
                    </additional>
                </msDesc>
            </sourceDesc>
        </fileDesc>
        <encodingDesc>
            <editorialDecl>
                <p>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.</p>
            </editorialDecl>
        </encodingDesc>
    </teiHeader>
    <text>
        <body>
            <div>
                <opener>This book was supposed to have been stolen Miss Mulock having kept it nearly
                    2 years <del rend="strikethrough"><gap quantity="1" unit="word"
                            reason="illegible"/></del><lb/> [<persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC"
                        >Miss Mulock</persName> — author of “<title
                        corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#JohnHalifaxGentleman">John Halifax,
                        Gentleman</title>”]<lb/>
                    <handShift corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC"/><salute>My dear <persName
                            ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MrsField">Mrs.
                    Field</persName></salute></opener>
                <p>I find to my exceeding regret &amp; humiliation, that this book which I thought I
                    had returned has been for a year securely packed in a box – &amp; has now come
                    to light in the general disentombment of things prior to letting the house. Will
                    you ever forgive? – </p>
                <p>You may have heard, <rs type="person" ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockBen">my
                        brother</rs> has had a severe illness, but is now very much better – &amp;
                    on <date>Monday</date> we go to the water cure at <orgName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#BenRhydding">Ben Rhydding</orgName>, which I trust
                    will quite restore him. – He had been working very close, &amp; at last he
                    utterly broke down with a sort of nervous dyspeptic attack. With this – &amp;
                    the letting of the house for six months I have been quite occupied – but I hope
                    to get time to pay you a farewell call. – And believe me, my dear <persName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Mrs. Field</persName></p>
                <closer>Yours sincerely<lb/>
                    <signed><persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">DMMulock.</persName></signed><lb/>
                    <dateline><date when="1863-03-13" precision="medium">13<hi rend="superscript"
                                >th</hi> March</date></dateline><lb/></closer>
            </div>
        </body>
    </text>
</TEI>
Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Field, 13 March 1863. 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 AM21376 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Field, 13 March 1863. 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.
This book was supposed to have been stolen Miss Mulock having kept it nearly 2 years [Miss Mulock — author of “John Halifax, Gentleman”] My dear Mrs. Field

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? –

You may have heard, my brother has had a severe illness, but is now very much better – & on Monday we go to the water cure at Ben Rhydding, which I trust will quite restore him. – He had been working very close, & at last he utterly broke down with a sort of nervous dyspeptic attack. With this – & the letting of the house for six months I have been quite occupied – but I hope to get time to pay you a farewell call. – And believe me, my dear Mrs. Field

Yours sincerely DMMulock. 13th March

Toolbox

Themes:

Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Field, 13 March 1863. 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 AM21376 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Field, 13 March 1863. 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.
This book was supposed to have been stolen Miss Mulock having kept it nearly 2 years [Miss Mulock — author of “John Halifax, Gentleman”] My dear Mrs. Field

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? –

You may have heard, my brother has had a severe illness, but is now very much better – & on Monday we go to the water cure at Ben Rhydding, which I trust will quite restore him. – He had been working very close, & at last he utterly broke down with a sort of nervous dyspeptic attack. With this – & the letting of the house for six months I have been quite occupied – but I hope to get time to pay you a farewell call. – And believe me, my dear Mrs. Field

Yours sincerely DMMulock. 13th March