Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 9 July unknown year

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            <p>I hope your cold is better. We are all very well. I am going next week to <placeName
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               friends the <orgName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Chenery">Chenerys</orgName> of
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                  <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Dieppe">Dieppe</placeName> on Thursday finish
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               much a little time ago by a bit of mystery that I was truly glad we found
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                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockEliza">Aunt E.</persName> said to him – Where were
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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 9 July unknown year. 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 11 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 11 December 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Second Proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 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, 9 July unknown year. 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, 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.
July 9 Dearest Dinah

I hope your cold is better. We are all very well. I am going next week to Hugh house for my friend Mrs. Dunsmeath. – where I was in the summer. Mrs Kirkess & herself are going for a walk to see their friends & they leave 2 great children & a wide house in my care. Aunt E. does not half with it – nor do I, but I have lived to find we must do a great many things we don’t like. I hope dear Ben’s throat is better. Our aunties love to him when you write. My friends the Chenerys of Leamington sailed for Dieppe on Thursday finish the winter at Nice & summer at Geneva. They sadly want me to join them there – but I do not even hint it to Aunt E.! I am truly sorry Bessie was obliged to leave you – a faithful servant is a real blessing. I hope the little new maiden will answer. Aunt A has not been very well the last few days, but she is better under Mr. H’s care. He amused us very much a little time ago by a bit of mystery that I was truly glad we found not – for I owed him a grudge ever since he found out all about Lord Raglan & would not enlighten us as to the how. He darted off after service one evening with super speed & the next day Aunt E. said to him – Where were you going in such a hurry last evening? To a meeting – where? In Bath. Had you to take a part in it? Yes. Did you speak? Yes. What was the meeting for? Many things. Were there many there? About 40. Was there a chairman? Not exactly. Can’t you tell us something about the object of the meeting? No I cannot. Shall we ever know? It is not at all likely you ever will.

A fortnight after this I took up the Bath paper lent us by a friend & my eyes rested on a paragraph. On that Tuesday evening there was a meeting – to form a Forester’s Association. 40 new members were present. The Marques of Bath was prevented taking the Chair by illness & our friend the Dr. was appointed medical man I guessed, tho’ the name was not given. I was so pleased to find all this out – after Aunt Eliza being so ill treated as not to be told – So the next time he called I just said all I knew, but never hinted a word about the paper & I ended by saying ‘I don’t forget our 3 Chair & the penny at Bristol!’ He begged to be very kindly remembered to you & says the plaster is only temporary – it is blisters you need. Well, morally as well as physically we prefer the plaster to the blister. I do – but blisters are best after all. I knew God would have very little from us were it not for the pains of blister now & then which makes me cry unto Him – so dear Dinah found: “In the day of my trouble I cried unto God. And He heard me.” Blessed trouble that drives us close to God & keeps us near to Him. July 14. I just add a line from Queen’s Parade to say all are well out N.B. & I am sure could send many loves if they knew I were writing.

Believe me, dearest Dinah,Your fond aunt Alicia —

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Letter from Alicia Mulock to Dinah Mulock Craik, 9 July unknown year. 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 11 November 2015 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding July-August 2015 by Janice Parker Proofing of TEI encoding 11 December 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Second Proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 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, 9 July unknown year. 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, 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.
July 9 Dearest Dinah

I hope your cold is better. We are all very well. I am going next week to Hugh house for my friend Mrs. Dunsmeath. – where I was in the summer. Mrs Kirkess & herself are going for a walk to see their friends & they leave 2 great children & a wide house in my care. Aunt E. does not half with it – nor do I, but I have lived to find we must do a great many things we don’t like. I hope dear Ben’s throat is better. Our aunties love to him when you write. My friends the Chenerys of Leamington sailed for Dieppe on Thursday finish the winter at Nice & summer at Geneva. They sadly want me to join them there – but I do not even hint it to Aunt E.! I am truly sorry Bessie was obliged to leave you – a faithful servant is a real blessing. I hope the little new maiden will answer. Aunt A has not been very well the last few days, but she is better under Mr. H’s care. He amused us very much a little time ago by a bit of mystery that I was truly glad we found not – for I owed him a grudge ever since he found out all about Lord Raglan & would not enlighten us as to the how. He darted off after service one evening with super speed & the next day Aunt E. said to him – Where were you going in such a hurry last evening? To a meeting – where? In Bath. Had you to take a part in it? Yes. Did you speak? Yes. What was the meeting for? Many things. Were there many there? About 40. Was there a chairman? Not exactly. Can’t you tell us something about the object of the meeting? No I cannot. Shall we ever know? It is not at all likely you ever will.

A fortnight after this I took up the Bath paper lent us by a friend & my eyes rested on a paragraph. On that Tuesday evening there was a meeting – to form a Forester’s Association. 40 new members were present. The Marques of Bath was prevented taking the Chair by illness & our friend the Dr. was appointed medical man I guessed, tho’ the name was not given. I was so pleased to find all this out – after Aunt Eliza being so ill treated as not to be told – So the next time he called I just said all I knew, but never hinted a word about the paper & I ended by saying ‘I don’t forget our 3 Chair & the penny at Bristol!’ He begged to be very kindly remembered to you & says the plaster is only temporary – it is blisters you need. Well, morally as well as physically we prefer the plaster to the blister. I do – but blisters are best after all. I knew God would have very little from us were it not for the pains of blister now & then which makes me cry unto Him – so dear Dinah found: “In the day of my trouble I cried unto God. And He heard me.” Blessed trouble that drives us close to God & keeps us near to Him. July 14. I just add a line from Queen’s Parade to say all are well out N.B. & I am sure could send many loves if they knew I were writing.

Believe me, dearest Dinah,Your fond aunt Alicia —