Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 August 1862.

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                <p>I have gone through all the fairy-tales I can muster out of the books you sent
                    &amp; others which I have borrowed from friends – made a list of the best –
                    &amp; sent the list &amp; the books for the printer to calculate the quantity it
                    will make set off. I expect more than will be required – &amp; then I must weed
                    the list after &amp; choose the best. – It seems to me this is this is the only
                    way. – And then they should be set up &amp; corrections made in the proofs –
                    which corrections will not be so numerous, I find, as to need you to plan of
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                <p>I did not want to bother you on your holiday – so wrote <persName
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                    volumes for the printer to cast off &amp; guess the quantity they would make –
                    you could then decide from that what quantity you wished. – I have found some
                    charming fairy tales which are almost unknown – &amp; have picked out the best
                    versions of the known ones – so that I do believe it will be a very nice book. –
                        <persName ref="CraikSiteIndex.xml#GarnettRichard">M. Garnett</persName> has
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                <p> – This is the first day that our home has been empty of visitors. – &amp; now I
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 August 1862. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription 30 March 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding 6 April 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding April 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: April 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the New York Public Library.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive New York Public Library Berg Collection Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Collection of Papers Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 August 1862. Folder 67B2875

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 facilitate searching. The long s is not encoded.
Monday, August 18 th 1862 My dear friend,

I have gone through all the fairy-tales I can muster out of the books you sent & others which I have borrowed from friends – made a list of the best – & sent the list & the books for the printer to calculate the quantity it will make set off. I expect more than will be required – & then I must weed the list after & choose the best. – It seems to me this is this is the only way. – And then they should be set up & corrections made in the proofs – which corrections will not be so numerous, I find, as to need you to plan of inter-leaving. – Besides, as one half the tales came out of books belonging to friends of which you can't get a second copy – & therefore the printer must do as well as he can in printing from the book & returning it intact. –

I did not want to bother you on your holiday – so wrote Mr. Bowes when I sent the volumes for the printer to cast off & guess the quantity they would make – you could then decide from that what quantity you wished. – I have found some charming fairy tales which are almost unknown – & have picked out the best versions of the known ones – so that I do believe it will be a very nice book. – M. Garnett has helped me with his judgement of the best ones. – But I think it would not be a bad plan to test them, in the proof, by giving them to your children – to see how they take to them. –

– This is the first day that our home has been empty of visitors. – & now I want to set to work about the fairy book immediately. I hope to hear soon how you all are after Whitby. – this is mere business.

Every sincerely yours DMulock –

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 August 1862. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription 2008 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription 30 March 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding 6 April 2017 by Hannah Anderson Proofing of TEI encoding April 2017 by Kailey Fukushima First digital edition in TEI, date: April 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2016

Reproduced by courtesy of the New York Public Library.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive New York Public Library Berg Collection Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Collection of Papers Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Alexander Macmillan, 18 August 1862. Folder 67B2875

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 facilitate searching. The long s is not encoded.
Monday, August 18 th 1862 My dear friend,

I have gone through all the fairy-tales I can muster out of the books you sent & others which I have borrowed from friends – made a list of the best – & sent the list & the books for the printer to calculate the quantity it will make set off. I expect more than will be required – & then I must weed the list after & choose the best. – It seems to me this is this is the only way. – And then they should be set up & corrections made in the proofs – which corrections will not be so numerous, I find, as to need you to plan of inter-leaving. – Besides, as one half the tales came out of books belonging to friends of which you can't get a second copy – & therefore the printer must do as well as he can in printing from the book & returning it intact. –

I did not want to bother you on your holiday – so wrote Mr. Bowes when I sent the volumes for the printer to cast off & guess the quantity they would make – you could then decide from that what quantity you wished. – I have found some charming fairy tales which are almost unknown – & have picked out the best versions of the known ones – so that I do believe it will be a very nice book. – M. Garnett has helped me with his judgement of the best ones. – But I think it would not be a bad plan to test them, in the proof, by giving them to your children – to see how they take to them. –

– This is the first day that our home has been empty of visitors. – & now I want to set to work about the fairy book immediately. I hope to hear soon how you all are after Whitby. – this is mere business.

Every sincerely yours DMulock –