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Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 31 May 1927

About the electronic version

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 31 May 1927

Author: Beaglehole, John Cawte

Creation of machine-readable version:

Creation of digital images: Virginia Gow

Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: Virginia Gow

Publicly accessible

URL: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/

Extent: ca. 30 kilobytes

Illustrations have been included from the original source.

About the print version

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 31 May 1927

Author: John Cawte Beaglehole

Source copy consulted: from the private collection of the Tim Beaglehole family

Family has collated collection and ordered letters with red numbers in upper left hand corner

Encoding

Every effort has been made to preserve the Māori macron using unicode.

Some keywords in the header are a local Electronic Text Collection scheme to aid in establishing analytical groupings.

Revisions to the electronic version

  • 16 September 2004
    Jason Darwin
    General document-wide corrections: changed hyphens to em-dashes; added [orig] tags around all words hyphenated over line-breaks; changed non-monetary fractions to true fractions; specified full expansion for all abbreviations; changed hyphen in numeric ranges to en-dashes; specified supralinear additions where they appear in the text of the letter; ensured all indented paragraphs are tagged [p rend="indent"]. Corrected text on page 1: changed "[unclear: eron]" to "cross". Corrected text on page 2: changed "[unclear: deminition]" to "deminition". Corrected text on page 3: changed "[unclear: remitting]" to "remitting". Corrected text on page 4: changed "The dead beats" to "The dead-beats". Corrected text on page 5: changed "rowed away &" to "rowed away up &". Corrected text on page 6: changed "[unclear: so]" to "too"; changed "[unclear] [unclear: sufficiently]" to "& hygienic". changed "Othello" to "Otello". Corrected text on page 7: changed "go to just when" to "go to first when"; changed "[unclear: laid]" to "bird"; changed "cove I said" to "cove L said"; changed "revising etc" to "wanted revising etc"; changed "Plates, who ran" to "States, who ran". Corrected text on page 8: changed "Harold Hold" to "Harold Holt"; changed "days ago from" to "ten days ago from"; changed "round about way" to "roundabout way". Corrected text on page 9: changed "[unclear: fund of resource]" to "fund of resource". Corrected text on page 10: changed "it bails down" to "it boils down"; changed "[unclear: Fix]" to "Jix"; changed "[unclear: pastry]" to "party"; changed "any message to" to "any message for".

  • 10 September 2004
    Colin Doig
    Added name tags to various names of people/places/organisation/titles.

  • 1 March 2004
    Jamie Norrish, NZETC
    Altered TEI Header: added extent of electronic file, altered format of XML, fixed respStmts for fileDesc.

  • 7 January 2004
    Jamie Norrish
    Altered spacing of markup, changed hyphen to en- and em-dash in a couple of places, as appropriate.