Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, post-1856

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                    <salute>Very dear <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC"
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                <p>Sorry am I to find you are in a bother, but we have been so long used to these
                    threats we continue to hope they will never be put into practice. Thousands of
                    times I may say, your poor dear <rs type="person"
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockThomas">Father</rs> has sent us to God with
                    the cry of <unclear reason="illegible">sending</unclear> Peter – “Save Lord or
                    we Perish” and He has heard our cry &amp; saved us. </p>
                <p>From amidst piles of letters, I have at your <persName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockEliza">Aunt E’s</persName> desire selected the
                    few we sent, which may cast a little light upon the past, and with the aid of
                    memory will serve you though they may sadden you.</p>
                <p>It is painful to near to so painful a past, so pregnant with all the elements of
                    usefulness &amp; happiness &amp; get all dashed to pieces by the evil effects of
                    an undisciplined mind blinded by pride &amp; self sufficiency. But the thought
                    makes me glad sometimes to detect the <unclear reason="illegible">run</unclear>
                    of insanity through it all &amp; so leave it with the sands of Abraham. Shall
                    not the Judge of all the earth do right?</p>
                <p>Dear <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockEliza">Aunt E</persName> is quite
                    well again. We are all very uneasy about you. It seemed such awful ages since we
                    had a letter. A few lines you know is better than nothing. We feared you were
                    ill &amp; 100 things daily. I was just going to write again. </p>
                <p>I am so glad you had a little trip. I think you did not <unclear
                        reason="illegible">bought</unclear> the railway much nor any very expensive
                    Hotels. If all travelled as cheaply many would not circulate so freely. </p>
                <p>I am so delighted to hear you are so well. <persName
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#HoblynFrancis">Mr. H.</persName> always said you had
                    no radiant disease &amp; it was all nervous debility from an overtaxed
                    brain.</p>
                <p>We shall be truly glad to see your wee face again, but now, it is no use
                    fretting. All these sort of accusations will fall harmless on the dead, and
                    depend upon it if no notice is taken, the thing will die out naturally. I
                    believe there is an abundance of inequity in these places, and he may do good in
                    skewing them up, whereby others may be benefitted if we are all blackened, &amp;
                    so I console myself. Tell me what have you written since <title
                        corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#JohnHalifaxGentleman">J. Halifax</title>. I know
                    nothing of what is going on in that way, so please tell me &amp; how it is
                    received. </p>
                <p>Who in the world is that <persName>Miss N.</persName> I don’t think Pompey’s
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                    the adroit, deferential, clever style that would charm him &amp; he would
                    blacken us all as black as Warren – after such a letter as that. She will
                    flourish away in fine style - &amp; I only hope, that case in point may so
                    greatly exceed in delinquency all other cases, that his pen &amp; and his ire
                    may be devoted to her &amp; her friend. I trust now he has found a safety valve
                    for his quixotism &amp; he will let us all sink into oblivion. Farewell my
                    beloved <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Dinah</persName> &amp; </p>
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                        in these contradictions I feel I’ve the space for sympathy &amp;
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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, post-1856. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of transcription 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 20 December 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of California at Los Angeles Charles E. Young Research Library Mulock Family Papers 846 Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, post-1856.

This is a 5-page letter. The fifth page is crosswritten onto the first page.

Box 1, Folder 10

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, abbrieviations, 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.

Thursday. Very dear Dinah

Sorry am I to find you are in a bother, but we have been so long used to these threats we continue to hope they will never be put into practice. Thousands of times I may say, your poor dear Father has sent us to God with the cry of sending Peter – “Save Lord or we Perish” and He has heard our cry & saved us.

From amidst piles of letters, I have at your Aunt E’s desire selected the few we sent, which may cast a little light upon the past, and with the aid of memory will serve you though they may sadden you.

It is painful to near to so painful a past, so pregnant with all the elements of usefulness & happiness & get all dashed to pieces by the evil effects of an undisciplined mind blinded by pride & self sufficiency. But the thought makes me glad sometimes to detect the run of insanity through it all & so leave it with the sands of Abraham. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Dear Aunt E is quite well again. We are all very uneasy about you. It seemed such awful ages since we had a letter. A few lines you know is better than nothing. We feared you were ill & 100 things daily. I was just going to write again.

I am so glad you had a little trip. I think you did not bought the railway much nor any very expensive Hotels. If all travelled as cheaply many would not circulate so freely.

I am so delighted to hear you are so well. Mr. H. always said you had no radiant disease & it was all nervous debility from an overtaxed brain.

We shall be truly glad to see your wee face again, but now, it is no use fretting. All these sort of accusations will fall harmless on the dead, and depend upon it if no notice is taken, the thing will die out naturally. I believe there is an abundance of inequity in these places, and he may do good in skewing them up, whereby others may be benefitted if we are all blackened, & so I console myself. Tell me what have you written since J. Halifax. I know nothing of what is going on in that way, so please tell me & how it is received.

Who in the world is that Miss N. I don’t think Pompey’s pillar is high enough as a pedestal for her to be perched upon in your Father’s ocean. Never did womankind come up to her, I know. That is just the adroit, deferential, clever style that would charm him & he would blacken us all as black as Warren – after such a letter as that. She will flourish away in fine style - & I only hope, that case in point may so greatly exceed in delinquency all other cases, that his pen & and his ire may be devoted to her & her friend. I trust now he has found a safety valve for his quixotism & he will let us all sink into oblivion. Farewell my beloved Dinah &

believe me your loving ABM

I send you some letters that have allusions to your dear Mother, so contradictory that one cannot fail to discover the germ of disease – & in these contradictions I feel I’ve the space for sympathy & forbearance.

1 Pompey's pillar refers to a Roman column in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, post-1856. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of transcription 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 7 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 20 December 2015. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014

Reproduced by courtesy of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of California at Los Angeles Charles E. Young Research Library Mulock Family Papers 846 Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, post-1856.

This is a 5-page letter. The fifth page is crosswritten onto the first page.

Box 1, Folder 10

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, abbrieviations, 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.

Thursday. Very dear Dinah

Sorry am I to find you are in a bother, but we have been so long used to these threats we continue to hope they will never be put into practice. Thousands of times I may say, your poor dear Father has sent us to God with the cry of sending Peter – “Save Lord or we Perish” and He has heard our cry & saved us.

From amidst piles of letters, I have at your Aunt E’s desire selected the few we sent, which may cast a little light upon the past, and with the aid of memory will serve you though they may sadden you.

It is painful to near to so painful a past, so pregnant with all the elements of usefulness & happiness & get all dashed to pieces by the evil effects of an undisciplined mind blinded by pride & self sufficiency. But the thought makes me glad sometimes to detect the run of insanity through it all & so leave it with the sands of Abraham. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Dear Aunt E is quite well again. We are all very uneasy about you. It seemed such awful ages since we had a letter. A few lines you know is better than nothing. We feared you were ill & 100 things daily. I was just going to write again.

I am so glad you had a little trip. I think you did not bought the railway much nor any very expensive Hotels. If all travelled as cheaply many would not circulate so freely.

I am so delighted to hear you are so well. Mr. H. always said you had no radiant disease & it was all nervous debility from an overtaxed brain.

We shall be truly glad to see your wee face again, but now, it is no use fretting. All these sort of accusations will fall harmless on the dead, and depend upon it if no notice is taken, the thing will die out naturally. I believe there is an abundance of inequity in these places, and he may do good in skewing them up, whereby others may be benefitted if we are all blackened, & so I console myself. Tell me what have you written since J. Halifax. I know nothing of what is going on in that way, so please tell me & how it is received.

Who in the world is that Miss N. I don’t think Pompey’s pillar is high enough as a pedestal for her to be perched upon in your Father’s ocean. Never did womankind come up to her, I know. That is just the adroit, deferential, clever style that would charm him & he would blacken us all as black as Warren – after such a letter as that. She will flourish away in fine style - & I only hope, that case in point may so greatly exceed in delinquency all other cases, that his pen & and his ire may be devoted to her & her friend. I trust now he has found a safety valve for his quixotism & he will let us all sink into oblivion. Farewell my beloved Dinah &

believe me your loving ABM

I send you some letters that have allusions to your dear Mother, so contradictory that one cannot fail to discover the germ of disease – & in these contradictions I feel I’ve the space for sympathy & forbearance.

Pompey's pillar refers to a Roman column in Alexandria, Egypt.