BIB_ID
196053
Accession number
MA 13885
Creator
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887.
Display Date
[between 1865 and 1869] "November 16".
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 13.1 x 9 cm
Notes
Signed "DM Craik."
Date of writing suggested by internal evidence; Dinah Mulock married George Lillie Craik in April of 1865; Craik's father, Thomas Mulock, died in 1869.
Major William Fulford was the governor of Stafford County Gaol (where Thomas Mulock, Dinah Craik's father, was imprisoned more than once in the 1850s and 1860s) from October 1849 until his death on 5 June 1886.
Date of writing suggested by internal evidence; Dinah Mulock married George Lillie Craik in April of 1865; Craik's father, Thomas Mulock, died in 1869.
Major William Fulford was the governor of Stafford County Gaol (where Thomas Mulock, Dinah Craik's father, was imprisoned more than once in the 1850s and 1860s) from October 1849 until his death on 5 June 1886.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning the challenges Fulford's son will face as an aspiring writer and her own struggles as an author ("I do feel so for those who have a battle to fight - my own was terribly hard for 20 years - & I was a woman too ... Unless your son has a decided genius for writing - he has almost no chance - the fight it too fierce"); offering to give her honest opinion of his son's work and extending an invitation to her cottage should his son wish for a quiet place to write; saying that she has been afflicted with a cough and plans to go to the seaside for a few weeks; noting that there has been a lull in her correspondence with her father, but that when she is feeling stronger, she will come to see him, although she will not mention Fulford's son to him as it is better not to do so.
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