Letter dating and mark-up procedures
Letter
dating - The dates used in the Archive list are, where possible, the
author dates for the letters. Where a document has no author date we
use the post mark date. If this is not available, we make a best-guess
attribution, these always being noted as such.
Letter
mark-up procedures - Occasionally, letters contain illegible entries or
are physically damaged, making transcription impossible. Whenever a
letter is illegible, for whatever reason, we use square brackets [ ] to
indicate this and we offer any clarification about an entry that might
be available within these brackets.
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