Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 4 June 1845.

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                    <salute>Sir,</salute></opener>
                <p>I have not heard from you since I sent the tale “<title
                        corresp="CraikSiteIndex.xml#SisterOfRembrandt">The Sister of
                        Rembrandt,</title>” and am anxious to know whether it meets your
                    approbation. &amp; trust I may construe your silence favourably.</p>
                <p>I know not if you need original poetry in <title
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                    the two enclosed may come in sometime, somewhere.</p>
                <closer>I remain, Sir<lb/> Yours obliged<lb/>
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 4 June 1845. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 4 June 1845. MS 96; Folio 162

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.

June 4th – / 45 – Sir,

I have not heard from you since I sent the tale “The Sister of Rembrandt,” and am anxious to know whether it meets your approbation. & trust I may construe your silence favourably.

I know not if you need original poetry in your Journal; perhaps the two enclosed may come in sometime, somewhere.

I remain, Sir Yours obliged Dinah Maria Mulock

My present address is Miss Mulock Post Office Willesden in London where I hope to hear from you —

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 4 June 1845. Dinah Mulock Craik Karen Bourrier Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive University of Calgary Karen Bourrier Transcription July 2009 by Karen Bourrier Proofing of transcription May 2017 by Hannah Anderson TEI encoding May 2017 by Kailey Fukushima Proofing of TEI encoding May 2017 by Hannah Anderson First digital edition in TEI, date: May 2017. P5. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2017

Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Dinah Mulock Craik: A Digital Archive National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Collections Division W. & R. Chambers Dep. 341 Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 4 June 1845. MS 96; Folio 162

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.

June 4th – / 45 – Sir,

I have not heard from you since I sent the tale “The Sister of Rembrandt,” and am anxious to know whether it meets your approbation. & trust I may construe your silence favourably.

I know not if you need original poetry in your Journal; perhaps the two enclosed may come in sometime, somewhere.

I remain, Sir Yours obliged Dinah Maria Mulock

My present address is Miss Mulock Post Office Willesden in London where I hope to hear from you —