Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 24 January 1854.

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                <p>Tell dear <rs type="person">Mama</rs> I have been planning to write her some time
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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 24 January 1854. 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, 24 January 1854. MS 88; Folio 92

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.

Dear Mr. Chambers

Alice De Morgan — aged 15 — is lately dead. She was a merry girl — & I have heard her jest about the spirits as the girlies did at Chalcot — but I never heard of her making any confession of deception. Since her death She has communicated (or is supposed so) with her little sister — in a curious & altogether incomprehensible way — which facts I will ask Mrs. De Morgan to give you — but I do not like to tell without asking.

The mother's grief is quite healed — merely — she speaks of “hearing from her” — just as if she were in the next county instead of the next world. The Marstons have as firm a belief as ever — & they & the De Morgans & Sir Lytten Bulwer are intending to form a circle for close investigation. Bulwer told Mr. Marston lately — that being at Mrs. Hayden's — & about to come away without any satisfaction – He said “he wished the spirit would shew them something.” & the table immediately — without being touched ran across the room & “pinned him up in a corner.” — He then asked “that a decanter on the table might be lifted in the air” — which was done to the height of some inches — Then — ”that the wine might move without stirring decanter or table” — & it swayed inside the decanter in a sort of wave – the table quite still the while. These are, I believe, literal facts.

The Marstons have tried no more table-moving or writing — but in Professor De Morgan's household they continue both. Whatever augury it may be — one hears daily very odd facts — like the foregoing. —

Tell dear Mama I have been planning to write her some time — but have been far from well & so put off writing from day to day. But I will write soon.

Always yours sincerely DMMulock

Tuesday Evg Evening 24 Jan January —

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Letter from Dinah Mulock Craik to Robert Chambers, 24 January 1854. 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, 24 January 1854. MS 88; Folio 92

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.

Dear Mr. Chambers

Alice De Morgan — aged 15 — is lately dead. She was a merry girl — & I have heard her jest about the spirits as the girlies did at Chalcot — but I never heard of her making any confession of deception. Since her death She has communicated (or is supposed so) with her little sister — in a curious & altogether incomprehensible way — which facts I will ask Mrs. De Morgan to give you — but I do not like to tell without asking.

The mother's grief is quite healed — merely — she speaks of “hearing from her” — just as if she were in the next county instead of the next world. The Marstons have as firm a belief as ever — & they & the De Morgans & Sir Lytten Bulwer are intending to form a circle for close investigation. Bulwer told Mr. Marston lately — that being at Mrs. Hayden's — & about to come away without any satisfaction – He said “he wished the spirit would shew them something.” & the table immediately — without being touched ran across the room & “pinned him up in a corner.” — He then asked “that a decanter on the table might be lifted in the air” — which was done to the height of some inches — Then — ”that the wine might move without stirring decanter or table” — & it swayed inside the decanter in a sort of wave – the table quite still the while. These are, I believe, literal facts.

The Marstons have tried no more table-moving or writing — but in Professor De Morgan's household they continue both. Whatever augury it may be — one hears daily very odd facts — like the foregoing. —

Tell dear Mama I have been planning to write her some time — but have been far from well & so put off writing from day to day. But I will write soon.

Always yours sincerely DMMulock

Tuesday Evg Evening 24 Jan January —