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            <title>Letter from <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Dinah Mulock Craik</persName>
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               <date when="1886-08-20">20 August 1886.</date></title>
            <author ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Dinah Mulock Craik</author>
            <editor ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#BourrierKaren">Karen Bourrier</editor>
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               <orgName>Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive</orgName>
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            <sponsor>University of Calgary</sponsor>
            <principal>Karen Bourrier</principal>
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               <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#KentSarah">Sarah Kent</persName>
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               <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#ParkerJanice">Janice Parker</persName>
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               <resp>Second proofing of transcription <date from="2015-06" to="2015-07">June-July
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            <edition> First digital edition in TEI, date: 2 February 2015. P5.</edition>
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            <pubPlace>Calgary, Alberta, Canada</pubPlace>
            <date>2014</date>
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               <p> Reproduced by courtesy of the <placeName>University of California at Los
                     Angeles</placeName>.</p>
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            <title>Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive</title>
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               <head> Letter from <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">Dinah Mulock
                     Craik</persName> to <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikDorothy">Dorothy
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                  <date when="1886-08-20">20 August 1886.</date>
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               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
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            <opener>
               <dateline><date when="1886-08-20">Aug 20-/86
                     </date><lb/><placeName>Antrim</placeName></dateline>
               <salute>My darling child</salute>
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            <p>Your faithful letters are the greatest possible comfort to me. I don’t care for showy
               letters – I only want facts – &amp; to know that in all her happiness my child
               remembers her mother. – I hope to see <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Emmie"
                  >Emmie</persName> tonight &amp; hear all news. – <persName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PilkingtonWilhelmina">Mrs. Pilkington</persName> writes
               that you were well liked everywhere – which is sweet to feel &amp; nice to hear. Take
               to your heart all your large new family – who are so nice and good. What a blessing!
               how great you little know as yet. I rather wonder at the riding – but you know best.
               – Don’t over do it. <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PilkingtonAlexander"
                  >Alexander</persName> will be very careful I know.</p>
            <p>I send you home letters. <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikGeorge">Papa
               </persName> writes wanting me to telegraph at once where he can meet me! Apparently
                  <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Aberforth">Aberforth</placeName> was not the
               paradise he expected – So I have fixed for the 24<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> at the <placeName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CausewayHotel">Causeway Hotel</placeName>. – &amp; we must
               manage as best we can. – I wish he had made up his mind &amp; his boxes – a little
               sooner – Taking his huge portmanteau &amp; about 24 shirts on an outside car thro'
                  <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Donegal">Donegal</placeName>! – <persName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PikeConnie">Connie</persName> &amp; <persName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PikeAda">Ada</persName> are to be picked up at the house
               where they are visiting – <unclear><persName>Mrs Chrissie’s</persName></unclear>
               between <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Larne">Larne</placeName> &amp; <placeName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Cushendall">Cushendall</placeName> tomorrow morning. They
               are capital travelling companions – never fussy or cross – or unpunctual. Hitherto
               our tour has been a complete success. <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Carlisle"
                  >Carlisle</placeName> was great fun – <persName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#ScottWalter">Mr. Scott</persName> was so exceedingly kind.
               Indeed everybody’s kindness is unlimited. – The <orgName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Holmes">Holmes’s</orgName> is a nice quiet house – not
               rich, but so neat, orderly, and punctual. A charming, practical wife. &amp; baby whom
               I go in to cuddle of a morning. – when I get my porridge at 8. They don’t breakfast
               till nine. I am quite well – even in the bad crossing when everybody round me
               succumbed. I stood it like a rock for I felt I must learn to stand it if I am ever to
               come and see my child – I sometimes feel tired – but never knocked up. – &amp; have
               so far done everything I wanted to do. – Not a line from <persName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PatonFrederickNoel">Fred</persName>. <choice>
                  <abbr>tho’</abbr>
                  <expan>though</expan>
               </choice> he knows I am here – but he may turn up at <placeName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Cushendall">Cushendall</placeName> - where I hear he has
               been dining out – &amp; playing <note target="#1">dumb-crambo</note> &amp; is warmly
               appreciated every where – &amp; likes <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Donegal"
                  >Donegal</placeName> so much that he means to camp out there next summer! –
                  <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PatonJosephNoel">Sir Noel</persName> writes me
               that they have taken <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CorrieManse">Corrie
                  Manse</placeName> for September – I felt sure they would drift to <placeName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Arran">Arran</placeName> somehow. – In truth there is no
               place like <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.#Arran">Arran</placeName>. I shall try to
               get the cottage for next September or October. &amp; show <persName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#PilkingtonWilhelmina">Mrs. Pilkington</persName> the
               Highlands as I wished once before. Tell her we shall be at <placeName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Cushendall">Cushendall</placeName>
               <hi rend="underline">till Tuesday</hi>. <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MrsDobbs"
                  >Mrs. Dobbs</persName> wants us to spend Monday at her place in the mountains –
               &amp; with the great help of <persName>Miss. McDonnell's</persName> horse &amp; car I
               can manage this – we shall be a merry party – write there – to the <placeName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CushendallHotel">Cushendall hotel</placeName> &amp; then
               to the <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CausewayHotel">Causeway Hotel</placeName>
               <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Bushmills">Bushmills</placeName> – where I hope to
               find <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikGeorge">Papa</persName> on the 24th &amp;
               stay a day or two. Further on is quite indefinite – so you may rest content – you
               will not be carried off just yet! – Probably, if <persName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikGeorge">Papa</persName> gets “difficult” – he will
               come first – &amp; I shall anyhow go round by <placeName
                  ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Athlone">Athlone</placeName> – goodbye my own darling – I
               miss you frightfully still – but must try &amp; bear it. – </p>
            <closer>Your loving,<lb/>
               <signed><persName ref="#DMC">Mama – </persName>—<lb/></signed></closer>
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            <note target="#n1" resp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#KentSarah">Dumb Crambo is a pantomime game,
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