Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 11 May c. 1855

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                <p> Thank you for the copies of “<title corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Ogilvies"
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                <p>I have nearly finished my new novel. – About which, when finished, we were to
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                    believe its honest value. Do you? – &amp; will you give it? – Otherwise will you
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                <p>When <title corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#AgathasHusband">Agatha’s Husband</title>
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 11 May c. 1855. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription June 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of transcription June 2015 by Karen Bourrier TEI encoding June 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June 2015 by Karen Bourrier Second 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 The Morgan Library and Museum.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive The Morgan Library and Museum Collection of Autograph Letters Signed: London, to Frederic Chapman MA 8610.23 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 11 May c. 1855.

This is a two-page manuscript letter written on light blue/gray paper.

 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.
Dear Mr. Chapman

Thank you for the copies of “Ogilvies.” –

I have nearly finished my new novel. – About which, when finished, we were to come to terms. – I want £400 for it – which I believe its honest value. Do you? – & will you give it? – Otherwise will you let me know? –

When Agatha’s Husband takes its turn at 2/0 – I would like to revise it also. It is better both for you & me.

Believe me Very truly yours Dinah Mulock – May 11 th – Lynover Cottage – Kilburn

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 11 May c. 1855. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription June 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of transcription June 2015 by Karen Bourrier TEI encoding June 2015 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June 2015 by Karen Bourrier Second 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 The Morgan Library and Museum.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive The Morgan Library and Museum Collection of Autograph Letters Signed: London, to Frederic Chapman MA 8610.23 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Frederic Chapman, 11 May c. 1855.

This is a two-page manuscript letter written on light blue/gray paper.

 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.
Dear Mr. Chapman

Thank you for the copies of “Ogilvies.” –

I have nearly finished my new novel. – About which, when finished, we were to come to terms. – I want £400 for it – which I believe its honest value. Do you? – & will you give it? – Otherwise will you let me know? –

When Agatha’s Husband takes its turn at 2/0 – I would like to revise it also. It is better both for you & me.

Believe me Very truly yours Dinah Mulock – May 11 th – Lynover Cottage – Kilburn