Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Russell Lowell, 5 May 1885

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                <p>When I left you, I felt grieved for having referred to your daughter &amp;
                    grandchildren – to whom you are going back alone. – Take the sympathy I could
                    not speak – May you still have a peaceful &amp; happy old age! – I am glad I
                    have met and known you, though ever so slightly: – I shall not forget you – even
                    if I do not ever see you again. – </p>
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Russell Lowell, 5 May 1885. 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 AM17468 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Russell Lowell, 5 May 1885.

In the top-right corner, under the date, there is a stamp that reads: "The Corner House, Shortlands R.O. Kent."

 Box 6, Folder 25

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.
May 5 – /85 1885 The Corner House Shortlands R.O. Kent. Dear Mr. Lowell

When I left you, I felt grieved for having referred to your daughter & grandchildren – to whom you are going back alone. – Take the sympathy I could not speak – May you still have a peaceful & happy old age! – I am glad I have met and known you, though ever so slightly: – I shall not forget you – even if I do not ever see you again. –

Believe me Sincerely yours DMCraik

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Russell Lowell, 5 May 1885. 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 AM17468 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to James Russell Lowell, 5 May 1885.

In the top-right corner, under the date, there is a stamp that reads: "The Corner House, Shortlands R.O. Kent."

 Box 6, Folder 25

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.
May 5 – / 85 1885 The Corner House Shortlands R.O. Kent. Dear Mr. Lowell

When I left you, I felt grieved for having referred to your daughter & grandchildren – to whom you are going back alone. – Take the sympathy I could not speak – May you still have a peaceful & happy old age! – I am glad I have met and known you, though ever so slightly: – I shall not forget you – even if I do not ever see you again. –

Believe me Sincerely yours DMCraik