Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, April 1860.

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                    <salute>My dear friend</salute>
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                <p>I don’t know whether this is good or not – or whether you would like it in the
                    magazine. I felt it strongly – on seeing <persName
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                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MissBlyth">Miss Blyth.</persName> – I don’t like
                    strongly to advise for this tale – and yet I should be sorry for you to miss it.
                    – I wonder if when done she will submit to a solid hard criticism &amp;
                    condensation It might be made a very very nice book – if gone over again. I am
                    sure. – </p>
                <p>And the Crimea life is as fresh &amp; natural-like as if she had seen it – she
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                <p>I head all Cambridge news from <rs type="person"
                        ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#BowesRobert">your nephew</rs> – who bestowed on me a
                    glass of wine &amp; a piece of bread &amp; butter – (which I greatly enjoyed) at
                        <rs type="organization" ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Macmillan">the Firm</rs>’s
                    expense!! – </p>
                <p>Love to <rs type="person" ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MacmillanCaroline">your
                        wife</rs> &amp; <rs type="person">sister</rs> – they will let me know when
                    they take courage for <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#HampsteadHeath"
                        >Hampstead</placeName> – we are beginning to be quite green. – </p>
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, April 1860. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription February 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding February 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the New York Public Library.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive New York Public Library Berg Collection Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Collection of Papers Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, April 1860. Folder 67B2875

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.
My dear friend

I don’t know whether this is good or not – or whether you would like it in the magazine. I felt it strongly – on seeing Hunt’s picture: one of the grandest, if not the grandest picture I ever saw in my life. –

I finished the M.S. manuscript of Aunt Jessie – so far as you have sent me. – It “garred me greet” – like a baby – one chapter. There’s a wonderful deal in this Miss Blyth. – I don’t like strongly to advise for this tale – and yet I should be sorry for you to miss it. – I wonder if when done she will submit to a solid hard criticism & condensation It might be made a very very nice book – if gone over again. I am sure. –

And the Crimea life is as fresh & natural-like as if she had seen it – she must have got it from nature, secondhand : as I got from Ben. –

I head all Cambridge news from your nephew – who bestowed on me a glass of wine & a piece of bread & butter – (which I greatly enjoyed) at the Firm’s expense!! –

Love to your wife & sister – they will let me know when they take courage for Hampstead – we are beginning to be quite green. –

Ever yours DMM. –

It seems to me this poem might be better anonymous – but that as you please – I don’t mind either way
1 Dinah was taken with Holman Hunt's famous painting, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, which he exhibited early in 1860. She even wrote a poem called "Our Father's Business: Holman Hunt's Picture of 'Christ in the Temple'" praising the picture. It was published in volume II number 7 of Macmillan's Magazine (May 1860). 2 "Garred me greet" is a Scottish saying which roughly means "compelled me greatly" (Dictionary of the Scots Language "gar" v.1).

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, April 1860. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription February 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding February 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the New York Public Library.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive New York Public Library Berg Collection Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Collection of Papers Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, April 1860. Folder 67B2875

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.
My dear friend

I don’t know whether this is good or not – or whether you would like it in the magazine. I felt it strongly – on seeing Hunt’s picture: one of the grandest, if not the grandest picture I ever saw in my life. –

I finished the M.S. manuscript of Aunt Jessie – so far as you have sent me. – It “garred me greet” – like a baby – one chapter. There’s a wonderful deal in this Miss Blyth. – I don’t like strongly to advise for this tale – and yet I should be sorry for you to miss it. – I wonder if when done she will submit to a solid hard criticism & condensation It might be made a very very nice book – if gone over again. I am sure. –

And the Crimea life is as fresh & natural-like as if she had seen it – she must have got it from nature, secondhand : as I got from Ben. –

I head all Cambridge news from your nephew – who bestowed on me a glass of wine & a piece of bread & butter – (which I greatly enjoyed) at the Firm’s expense!! –

Love to your wife & sister – they will let me know when they take courage for Hampstead – we are beginning to be quite green. –

Ever yours DMM. –

It seems to me this poem might be better anonymous – but that as you please – I don’t mind either way
Dinah was taken with Holman Hunt's famous painting, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, which he exhibited early in 1860. She even wrote a poem called "Our Father's Business: Holman Hunt's Picture of 'Christ in the Temple'" praising the picture. It was published in volume II number 7 of Macmillan's Magazine (May 1860). "Garred me greet" is a Scottish saying which roughly means "compelled me greatly" (Dictionary of the Scots Language "gar" v.1).