Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Barnett, post-1869

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                    Bedford St. clerks – Sevenoaks would be more than I could possibly manage—the
                    “last <unclear reason="illegible">feather</unclear>” in short that broke the
                    camel’s back. – my husband could not come anyhow – So will you forgive?</p>
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Barnett, post-1869. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription and physical description May 2016 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding May 2016 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, July 2016. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM90–41 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Barnett, post-1869.

This letter is written on a folio sheet. Dinah Craik's address, "The Corner House Shortlands, Kent" is stamped onto the top-centre of the page.

 Box 6, Folder 24

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.
Mrs. Craik – (Miss Mulock The Corner House, Shortlands, Kent. Dear Mrs. Barnett

On 2 nd July I have a long severe day out in the country – on 5 th : July another – an entertainment to our Bedford St. clerks – Sevenoaks would be more than I could possibly manage—the “last feather” in short that broke the camel’s back. – my husband could not come anyhow – So will you forgive?

And believe me yours sincerely –  DMC. –

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Barnett, post-1869. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription May 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription and physical description May 2016 by Kailey Fukushima TEI encoding May 2016 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by Karen Bourrier First digital edition in TEI, July 2016. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the Princeton University.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists AM90–41 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Mrs. Barnett, post-1869.

This letter is written on a folio sheet. Dinah Craik's address, "The Corner House Shortlands, Kent" is stamped onto the top-centre of the page.

 Box 6, Folder 24

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.
Mrs. Craik – (Miss Mulock The Corner House, Shortlands, Kent. Dear Mrs. Barnett

On 2 nd July I have a long severe day out in the country – on 5 th : July another – an entertainment to our Bedford St. clerks – Sevenoaks would be more than I could possibly manage—the “last feather” in short that broke the camel’s back. – my husband could not come anyhow – So will you forgive?

And believe me yours sincerely –  DMC. –