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How we talk-longingly – both of us – of the days when we used to get drenched thro’ or blown to pieces on the shore – when I say that I have only used my umbrella twice since I came – you will understand & sympathize – How delicious would be the perfect storm that ever swept over from <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Arran" >Arran</placeName> hills – </p> <p>– You may see – all my heart – in fact I may own united hearts – are still in <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Scotland">Scotland</placeName> – but here our lot is cast – And we are too happy to feel anything but thankfulness. I wish you saw our pretty wee house – it is pretty. though I say it but shouldn’t – & we both take such pride in it – <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MissFanny">Miss Fanny</persName> saw after watching <rs type="person" ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikGeorge">my husband</rs> pottering about his house – observed in her deep voice – “you’re a couple of big babies” – adding apologetically – “But I like babies” – Poor dear woman – she is just breaking up her own house, & feels very forlorn. She was the first occupant of our spare room – where I trust some of you may some day be – it would be such a pleasure to us both. You can’t think how I cling to every bit of that brief two years & all its associations – & all my kindly neighbours & friends. – I like to hear all your bit news – & especially am pleased at <rs type="person">your niece</rs>’s engagement. When people are happy married – they are so very happy! thank God – But I never alter my creed that a single woman may be perfectly happy in herself – if she chooses, & that a single life is far better than any but the very happy married life. – Give all cordial congratulations to <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MissNair">Miss W Nair</persName> from me. – I trust <rs type="person">your dear mother</rs> still keeps as well as you could hope – & enjoys having her children about her. – our coming home – I ought to say that we have only been in our own house a fortnight – is not quite free from care – for <rs type="person" ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockEliza">my eldest Aunt at Bath</rs> who married me so happily – is seriously ill – she may linger – but at 77 there is little hope – & I wait daily with my things packed – ready to start at a minute’s notice – <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikGeorge">George</persName> cannot go with me – for <rs type="person" ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MacmillanAlexander" >his partner</rs> is from home. & the sole responsibility of business rests with him – & he can’t leave for a day. – Still I trust <rs type="person" ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MulockEliza">my Aunt</rs> will live a little longer – she is one of those angels that one can’t part with – though they are half in heaven already. – </p> <p>In reading over your letter I find I have answered no questions yet – Well – our house is a wee one – six rooms (two above two with hall between) – & the kitchen flat below. – Dining-room eastward – drawing-room westward – on the same flat – bedrooms ditto – the furnishing we have kept <add place="above" >throughout the house</add> to three colors – red green & brown – our engravings & busts &c are in the dining-room – our water-colors in the drawing-room. – But we are just full of pictures everywhere – <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikGeorge">Mr. Craik</persName> having such a number – His books fill two big book-cases – & mine a third – it has been awful work arranging them & <unclear reason="illegible">parcelling</unclear> altogether – since I took <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#TuemanAllen">Mr Allen Tueman’s</persName> plan, or rather advice – & bought everything very good – but second-hand. The success has been most satisfactory – but of course the trouble & time & fatigue were very great. Now however all is done – & we with our two domestics –(one an old servant who begged to come back to me – & the other <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Annie" >Annie</persName> who used to sing in Church) are settled in peace. Only for a few months however – till the determined Scotchman comes to fetch <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Annie">Annie</persName> & carry her back to <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Glasgow">Glasgow</placeName> – <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Davidson">Mrs. Davidson</persName> will be glad to here that <hi rend="superscript">this</hi> marriage is in every way most satisfactory – tell her so. – say to her how welcome her letter was – such a characteristic beautiful letter. 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How lucky I was to find such an exceptional character as my own husband. – One does not like to talk of such things – but oh – we are so happy! — </p> <p>I enclose a bit of music for your singers to sing – & only wish I could hear it. – Words are by a <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MissShirley">Miss Shirley</persName> of <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Kippenross"><choice> <sic>Tippinross</sic> <reg resp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#FukushimaKailey">Kippenross</reg> </choice></placeName> – near <placeName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#Dunblane"><choice> <sic>Danblane</sic> <reg resp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#FukushimaKailey">Dunblane</reg> </choice></placeName>. – </p> <p>And now goodbye – my dear <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#MissRankin">Miss Rankin</persName> – rather Misses Rankin – for I mind of you all – Let me hear sometimes for one or other & be sure that everything concerning you interests me – </p> <closer>Ever yours affect<lb/> <signed><persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#DMC">DMCraik</persName> — </signed></closer> <postscript> <p><rs type="person" ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#CraikGeorge">My husband</rs> would I am sure send kind messages – if he were at home – but he is away from 8.50 A.M. to 6 P.M. daily. – </p> </postscript> </div> </body> </text> </TEI> Hide page breaks Views diplomatic normalized Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rankin, c. 1866 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 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 AM17229 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rankin, c. 1866 Box 6, Folder 25 Arran Cottage Upper Tooting S. South – My dear Miss Rankin Your letter – & one at nearly the same time from dear good Mrs Davidson – are an exceeding pleasure to me – like a breath from Wemyss-Bay – which I would often give much for in this terribly hot southern climate. How we talk-longingly – both of us – of the days when we used to get drenched thro’ or blown to pieces on the shore – when I say that I have only used my umbrella twice since I came – you will understand & sympathize – How delicious would be the perfect storm that ever swept over from Arran hills – – You may see – all my heart – in fact I may own united hearts – are still in Scotland – but here our lot is cast – And we are too happy to feel anything but thankfulness. I wish you saw our pretty wee house – it is pretty. though I say it but shouldn’t – & we both take such pride in it – Miss Fanny saw after watching my husband pottering about his house – observed in her deep voice – “you’re a couple of big babies” – adding apologetically – “But I like babies” – Poor dear woman – she is just breaking up her own house, & feels very forlorn. She was the first occupant of our spare room – where I trust some of you may some day be – it would be such a pleasure to us both. You can’t think how I cling to every bit of that brief two years & all its associations – & all my kindly neighbours & friends. – I like to hear all your bit news – & especially am pleased at your niece’s engagement. When people are happy married – they are so very happy! thank God – But I never alter my creed that a single woman may be perfectly happy in herself – if she chooses, & that a single life is far better than any but the very happy married life. – Give all cordial congratulations to Miss W Nair from me. – I trust your dear mother still keeps as well as you could hope – & enjoys having her children about her. – our coming home – I ought to say that we have only been in our own house a fortnight – is not quite free from care – for my eldest Aunt at Bath who married me so happily – is seriously ill – she may linger – but at 77 there is little hope – & I wait daily with my things packed – ready to start at a minute’s notice – George cannot go with me – for his partner is from home. & the sole responsibility of business rests with him – & he can’t leave for a day. – Still I trust my Aunt will live a little longer – she is one of those angels that one can’t part with – though they are half in heaven already. – In reading over your letter I find I have answered no questions yet – Well – our house is a wee one – six rooms (two above two with hall between) – & the kitchen flat below. – Dining-room eastward – drawing-room westward – on the same flat – bedrooms ditto – the furnishing we have kept throughout the house to three colors – red green & brown – our engravings & busts &c are in the dining-room – our water-colors in the drawing-room. – But we are just full of pictures everywhere – Mr. Craik having such a number – His books fill two big book-cases – & mine a third – it has been awful work arranging them & parcelling altogether – since I took Mr Allen Tueman’s plan, or rather advice – & bought everything very good – but second-hand. The success has been most satisfactory – but of course the trouble & time & fatigue were very great. Now however all is done – & we with our two domestics –(one an old servant who begged to come back to me – & the other Annie who used to sing in Church) are settled in peace. Only for a few months however – till the determined Scotchman comes to fetch Annie & carry her back to Glasgow – Mrs. Davidson will be glad to here that this marriage is in every way most satisfactory – tell her so. – say to her how welcome her letter was – such a characteristic beautiful letter. Tell her – our bit novice is consecrated in the way she speaks of – I am amused at the organ & Mr. Boyd's triumph – give him kindly messages when you see him. – But you knew I never took much to him – the only man at Wemyss-Bay whom I did take to was your brother Andrew – oh yes – Professor Thomson – but still your brother was best. – only it is an old joke against me that I never did properly appreciate the nobler sex! – I always liked women best. How lucky I was to find such an exceptional character as my own husband. – One does not like to talk of such things – but oh – we are so happy! — I enclose a bit of music for your singers to sing – & only wish I could hear it. – Words are by a Miss Shirley of Tippinross Kippenross – near Danblane Dunblane . – And now goodbye – my dear Miss Rankin – rather Misses Rankin – for I mind of you all – Let me hear sometimes for one or other & be sure that everything concerning you interests me – Ever yours affect DMCraik — My husband would I am sure send kind messages – if he were at home – but he is away from 8.50 A.M. to 6 P.M. daily. – ToolboxHide page breaks Themes: Default Sleepy Time Terminal Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rankin, c. 1866 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 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 AM17229 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rankin, c. 1866 Box 6, Folder 25 Arran Cottage Upper Tooting S. South – My dear Miss Rankin Your letter – & one at nearly the same time from dear good Mrs Davidson – are an exceeding pleasure to me – like a breath from Wemyss-Bay – which I would often give much for in this terribly hot southern climate. How we talk-longingly – both of us – of the days when we used to get drenched thro’ or blown to pieces on the shore – when I say that I have only used my umbrella twice since I came – you will understand & sympathize – How delicious would be the perfect storm that ever swept over from Arran hills – – You may see – all my heart – in fact I may own united hearts – are still in Scotland – but here our lot is cast – And we are too happy to feel anything but thankfulness. I wish you saw our pretty wee house – it is pretty. though I say it but shouldn’t – & we both take such pride in it – Miss Fanny saw after watching my husband pottering about his house – observed in her deep voice – “you’re a couple of big babies” – adding apologetically – “But I like babies” – Poor dear woman – she is just breaking up her own house, & feels very forlorn. She was the first occupant of our spare room – where I trust some of you may some day be – it would be such a pleasure to us both. You can’t think how I cling to every bit of that brief two years & all its associations – & all my kindly neighbours & friends. – I like to hear all your bit news – & especially am pleased at your niece’s engagement. When people are happy married – they are so very happy! thank God – But I never alter my creed that a single woman may be perfectly happy in herself – if she chooses, & that a single life is far better than any but the very happy married life. – Give all cordial congratulations to Miss W Nair from me. – I trust your dear mother still keeps as well as you could hope – & enjoys having her children about her. – our coming home – I ought to say that we have only been in our own house a fortnight – is not quite free from care – for my eldest Aunt at Bath who married me so happily – is seriously ill – she may linger – but at 77 there is little hope – & I wait daily with my things packed – ready to start at a minute’s notice – George cannot go with me – for his partner is from home. & the sole responsibility of business rests with him – & he can’t leave for a day. – Still I trust my Aunt will live a little longer – she is one of those angels that one can’t part with – though they are half in heaven already. – In reading over your letter I find I have answered no questions yet – Well – our house is a wee one – six rooms (two above two with hall between) – & the kitchen flat below. – Dining-room eastward – drawing-room westward – on the same flat – bedrooms ditto – the furnishing we have kept throughout the house to three colors – red green & brown – our engravings & busts &c are in the dining-room – our water-colors in the drawing-room. – But we are just full of pictures everywhere – Mr. Craik having such a number – His books fill two big book-cases – & mine a third – it has been awful work arranging them & parcelling altogether – since I took Mr Allen Tueman’s plan, or rather advice – & bought everything very good – but second-hand. The success has been most satisfactory – but of course the trouble & time & fatigue were very great. Now however all is done – & we with our two domestics –(one an old servant who begged to come back to me – & the other Annie who used to sing in Church) are settled in peace. Only for a few months however – till the determined Scotchman comes to fetch Annie & carry her back to Glasgow – Mrs. Davidson will be glad to here that this marriage is in every way most satisfactory – tell her so. – say to her how welcome her letter was – such a characteristic beautiful letter. Tell her – our bit novice is consecrated in the way she speaks of – I am amused at the organ & Mr. Boyd's triumph – give him kindly messages when you see him. – But you knew I never took much to him – the only man at Wemyss-Bay whom I did take to was your brother Andrew – oh yes – Professor Thomson – but still your brother was best. – only it is an old joke against me that I never did properly appreciate the nobler sex! – I always liked women best. How lucky I was to find such an exceptional character as my own husband. – One does not like to talk of such things – but oh – we are so happy! — I enclose a bit of music for your singers to sing – & only wish I could hear it. – Words are by a Miss Shirley of Tippinross Kippenross – near Danblane Dunblane . – And now goodbye – my dear Miss Rankin – rather Misses Rankin – for I mind of you all – Let me hear sometimes for one or other & be sure that everything concerning you interests me – Ever yours affect DMCraik — My husband would I am sure send kind messages – if he were at home – but he is away from 8.50 A.M. to 6 P.M. daily. – Metadata TAPAS Title:Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rankin, c. 1866Title:Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Miss Rankin, c. 1866TAPAS Author:Dinah Mulock Craik (Author)TAPAS Contributor:Karen Bourrier (Contributor)Author/Creator:Dinah Mulock Craik (Author)Contributor:Karen Bourrier (Editor)Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive (Sponsor)University of Calgary (Sponsor)Karen Bourrier (Research team head)Karen Bourrier (Transcription May 2008 by)Kailey Fukushima (Proofing of transcription May 2016 by)Kailey Fukushima (TEI encoding May 2016 by)Karen Bourrier (Proofing of TEI encoding June 2016 by)Imprint:First digital edition in TEI, July 2016. 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