Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, between 1869 and 1887

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            <p>My dear little one must get <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Charlotte"
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               baby it will be five weeks before he can leave his mother – &amp; then you will have
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               milk. – He &amp; a pot of honey for <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CoxMrs">Mrs.
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, between 1869 and 1887. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription February-March 2015 by Will Best First proofing of transcription February-March 2015 by Keila Karinne Aleman Second proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Janice Parker TEI encoding by February-March 2015 by Will Best First proofing of TEI encoding February-March 2015 by Keila Karinne Aleman Second proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Janice Parker Third proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 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 Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, between 1869 and 1887. Box 2, Folder 15

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.

My dear little one must get Charlotte or some one to read her this letter as I have not time to print it. – Inside are some fairies wine glasses – & fairies tablecloths which I picked up today for my little girl – we are in such a wild place in the middle of a moor with ponies running about & great big stones & scarcely a house to be seen. – Papa & I are just going out on walk under the stars. The puppy that is coming is such a funny one – black – with a white collar & white stockings & a white mark above his nose. – But he is a baby it will be five weeks before he can leave his mother – & then you will have to treat him very tenderly. & carry him round the garden. & feed him with milk. – He & a pot of honey for Mrs. Cox are to come in a hamper together. & I truly hope he will not eat the honey. –

I hope my dear little girl has no more tooth-ache – but is happy & good. This day week mama will be at home – tell Miss Jennings – & give her my love – & also to Cousin Alice's mama & papa – whom you must take great care of. & see that they have the carriage whenever they want it. – Tell Keene mama hopes to see her rose-garden all ready except the planting. & is sure he will do it very nicely – I hope Jim's poor father is better – & everybody in the house at home quite well –

Ever my child's loving Mama

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, between 1869 and 1887. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription February-March 2015 by Will Best First proofing of transcription February-March 2015 by Keila Karinne Aleman Second proofing of transcription June-July 2015 by Janice Parker TEI encoding by February-March 2015 by Will Best First proofing of TEI encoding February-March 2015 by Keila Karinne Aleman Second proofing of TEI encoding June-July 2015 by Janice Parker Third proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: 15 August 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 Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, between 1869 and 1887. Box 2, Folder 15

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.

My dear little one must get Charlotte or some one to read her this letter as I have not time to print it. – Inside are some fairies wine glasses – & fairies tablecloths which I picked up today for my little girl – we are in such a wild place in the middle of a moor with ponies running about & great big stones & scarcely a house to be seen. – Papa & I are just going out on walk under the stars. The puppy that is coming is such a funny one – black – with a white collar & white stockings & a white mark above his nose. – But he is a baby it will be five weeks before he can leave his mother – & then you will have to treat him very tenderly. & carry him round the garden. & feed him with milk. – He & a pot of honey for Mrs. Cox are to come in a hamper together. & I truly hope he will not eat the honey. –

I hope my dear little girl has no more tooth-ache – but is happy & good. This day week mama will be at home – tell Miss Jennings – & give her my love – & also to Cousin Alice's mama & papa – whom you must take great care of. & see that they have the carriage whenever they want it. – Tell Keene mama hopes to see her rose-garden all ready except the planting. & is sure he will do it very nicely – I hope Jim's poor father is better – & everybody in the house at home quite well –

Ever my child's loving Mama