Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 25 March 1882

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                  <time when="19:48:00">7.38. P. M.</time><lb/>
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               <salute>My darling child</salute>
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            <p> I begin this – waiting for the dinner-bell. &amp; shall finish it some time
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 25 March 1882. 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 2015

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, 25 March 1882. 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.
25 March /82 1882 Deanery – Winchester My darling child

I begin this – waiting for the dinner-bell. & shall finish it some time tomorrow. – We find this a delightful visit. – Papa is quite happy. – He & the Dean talked all month – he is 80 – (the Dean, not Papa) – but quite bright & going still. – After lunch we drove to & from – Hospital – & then on to Miss Yonge, – who lives in a lovely old home & has a wood full of primroses & daffodils – I never saw such a sight – I've gathered a huge bunch – – which I keep for Connie. Miss Yonge showed us such curious things – among the rest a copy of a pencil sketch made by David the French painter of Marie Antoinette as she sat in the cart – going to be guillotined – with her hands tied behind her – in the mob cap & dress she made with her own hands to be executed in. Such a stern proud face – it touched me very much. – & put out the daffodils – rather. But they were splendid! Fancy a place as big as all our gardens & fields perfectly yellow all over! – I did wish you had been there. – We found the Price's had just been – & they came after us here – so we shall meet sometime tomorrow – Ned Bewley is asked to lunch – & to go to College Chapel there – the singing is very good they say – I shall succeed in going to Church four times tomorrow!! – First at 8.30 a.m. in the Cathedral, – then 11.a.m. – with a sermon – then 3.p.m. – then College Chapel at 5. – So – as you observe mother will be quite happy. – Mrs. Hunt told papa that she could not have us on Saturday upon any account – she had forgotten the Boat Race – & advises us not to attempt it the crowd is so great. But I half incline to ask Aunt Annie to let us sleep there on Friday night – & risk it. We could walk to Hammersmith & back, if the worst came to the worst – & in cabs to be got – However we shall see what the weather is – & whether the Poetical Paper – hanger will invite us to his house. – I should like to place my child if it could possibly be done – & next year we may be in Italy. – who knows? –

11.P.M. – we have had a placid evening – no dinner party – & now Papa & I have come up to "begin to spend the evening." We have a fire in our room. Which is all pannelled – & very ghostly – like the rest of the house – I can't find my own room yet. & am always going into wrong places. A delicious old house! – It is a pelting wet night – & I so hope if wet tomorrow Aunt Susie won't let you go to church. My Lammie. – I have my waterproof – so I don't mind. – & it is so close too. Goodnight, my darling. –

Sunday. 10.A.M. – Papa & I were in the Cathedral at 8.15 to early service – which was beautiful – the boys sang so sweet. – It is a wild west wind – but lively sunshine which made the Cathedral look so bright. – We went there thro' the Winchester Deanery kitchen – where was a cook as fat nearly as the Macmillan's poor old Sarah. – Then we came back to breakfast & we are going a walk in the Close till the 11 A.M. service. –

– 3.30 P.M. – After service we went over the garden – & the old Refectory – now used for potatoes & onions! – Ned Bewley came to lunch – & then we once again went over all the Cathedral – Mrs. & Miss Lane called – also the Price's whom we meet again at College Chapel at 5 – & go back with them to the Head-masters. – In fact it is a regular struggle against time & anything but dull – so Papa is quite happy. I should be – except that I miss my child – but I know she is happy with her Katie etc. etc. – I hope this will reach before you go up to lessons – I wish I had told Keene to fetch you & save the trouble of sending you – but it can't be helped now – and I shall be home to lunch. my child –

Ever your loving mother DMC. –

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Dorothy Craik, 25 March 1882. 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 2015

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, 25 March 1882. 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.
25 March / 82 1882 Deanery – Winchester My darling child

I begin this – waiting for the dinner-bell. & shall finish it some time tomorrow. – We find this a delightful visit. – Papa is quite happy. – He & the Dean talked all month – he is 80 – (the Dean, not Papa) – but quite bright & going still. – After lunch we drove to & from – Hospital – & then on to Miss Yonge, – who lives in a lovely old home & has a wood full of primroses & daffodils – I never saw such a sight – I've gathered a huge bunch – – which I keep for Connie. Miss Yonge showed us such curious things – among the rest a copy of a pencil sketch made by David the French painter of Marie Antoinette as she sat in the cart – going to be guillotined – with her hands tied behind her – in the mob cap & dress she made with her own hands to be executed in. Such a stern proud face – it touched me very much. – & put out the daffodils – rather. But they were splendid! Fancy a place as big as all our gardens & fields perfectly yellow all over! – I did wish you had been there. – We found the Price's had just been – & they came after us here – so we shall meet sometime tomorrow – Ned Bewley is asked to lunch – & to go to College Chapel there – the singing is very good they say – I shall succeed in going to Church four times tomorrow!! – First at 8.30 a.m. in the Cathedral, – then 11.a.m. – with a sermon – then 3.p.m. – then College Chapel at 5. – So – as you observe mother will be quite happy. – Mrs. Hunt told papa that she could not have us on Saturday upon any account – she had forgotten the Boat Race – & advises us not to attempt it the crowd is so great. But I half incline to ask Aunt Annie to let us sleep there on Friday night – & risk it. We could walk to Hammersmith & back, if the worst came to the worst – & in cabs to be got – However we shall see what the weather is – & whether the Poetical Paper – hanger will invite us to his house. – I should like to place my child if it could possibly be done – & next year we may be in Italy. – who knows? –

11.P.M. – we have had a placid evening – no dinner party – & now Papa & I have come up to "begin to spend the evening." We have a fire in our room. Which is all pannelled – & very ghostly – like the rest of the house – I can't find my own room yet. & am always going into wrong places. A delicious old house! – It is a pelting wet night – & I so hope if wet tomorrow Aunt Susie won't let you go to church. My Lammie. – I have my waterproof – so I don't mind. – & it is so close too. Goodnight, my darling. –

Sunday. 10.A.M. – Papa & I were in the Cathedral at 8.15 to early service – which was beautiful – the boys sang so sweet. – It is a wild west wind – but lively sunshine which made the Cathedral look so bright. – We went there thro' the Winchester Deanery kitchen – where was a cook as fat nearly as the Macmillan's poor old Sarah. – Then we came back to breakfast & we are going a walk in the Close till the 11 A.M. service. –

– 3.30 P.M. – After service we went over the garden – & the old Refectory – now used for potatoes & onions! – Ned Bewley came to lunch – & then we once again went over all the Cathedral – Mrs. & Miss Lane called – also the Price's whom we meet again at College Chapel at 5 – & go back with them to the Head-masters. – In fact it is a regular struggle against time & anything but dull – so Papa is quite happy. I should be – except that I miss my child – but I know she is happy with her Katie etc. etc. – I hope this will reach before you go up to lessons – I wish I had told Keene to fetch you & save the trouble of sending you – but it can't be helped now – and I shall be home to lunch. my child –

Ever your loving mother DMC. –