Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Blackwood, 1 August 1864.

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                <p>May I ask you a question? — would you like a one <choice>
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                    </choice> novel of mine <add place="above">just finished</add> — domestic &amp;
                        <hi rend="underline">not</hi> sensational — for <title
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Blackwood, 1 August 1864. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding 27 April 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Blackwood, 1 August 1864.

This letter is written on personalized "D.M.M." stationary. Dinah's maiden initials are embossed in an ornate pattern on the top-center of the page.

 MSS 4189; Folio 248

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.

Private Messrs Blackwood — Gentlemen

May I ask you a question? — would you like a one vol: volume novel of mine just finished — domestic & not sensational — for your magazine — & what would you give me for it? —

Your obednt obedient servant Dinah Mulock. –

Wemyss Bay Greenock, Aug August 1st —

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Blackwood, 1 August 1864. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding 27 April 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Blackwood, 1 August 1864.

This letter is written on personalized "D.M.M." stationary. Dinah's maiden initials are embossed in an ornate pattern on the top-center of the page.

 MSS 4189; Folio 248

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.

Private Messrs Blackwood — Gentlemen

May I ask you a question? — would you like a one vol: volume novel of mine just finished — domestic & not sensational — for your magazine — & what would you give me for it? —

Your obednt obedient servant Dinah Mulock. –

Wemyss Bay Greenock, Aug August 1st —