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Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 23 August 1927

About the electronic version

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 23 August 1927

Author: Beaglehole, John Cawte

Creation of machine-readable version: Kelly Lambert, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Creation of digital images: Kelly Lambert, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: Kelly Lambert, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

2004

Publicly accessible

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

Extent: ca. 34 kilobytes

Illustrations have been included from the original source.

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

  • 12 August 2004
    Jason Darwin
    General document-wide corrections: changed hyphens to em-dashes; specified full expansion for all abbreviations. Corrected text on page 1: changed "It has some great carving [unclear: &]" to "It has some great carving &". Corrected text on page 2: changed "chat at the [unclear: Mades] Hall" to "chat at the Trades Hall". Corrected text on page 4: changed "Stacks of [unclear: tripe]" to "Stacks of tripe"; changed "clean barmy on those [unclear: kinds]" to "clean barmy on those birds". Corrected text on page 5: changed "cemetery coffers" to "cemetery robbers"; changed "into the hands Daddy" to "into the hands of Daddy"; changed "you ate thoroughly bored" to "you are thoroughly bored". changed "[unclear: sculping] I think" to "[sic corr="sculpting": sculping] I think"; changed "sweep of motion" to "sweep & motion". Corrected text on page 6: changed "I [unclear: hang] over" to "I hung over"; changed "suit-case from Ern[unclear]" to "suit-case from Espiner"; changed "although the boat behaves" to "although the boat behaved". Corrected text on page 7: changed "farewell party, [unclear: secon daily]" to "farewell party, secondarily". Corrected text on page 8: changed "[unclear: 6] hours in the whole week" to "4 hours in the whole week"; changed "[unclear: dell] & I had to put in rest" to "de K & I had to put in rest". Corrected text on page 9: changed "I must send you [unclear: ought]" to "I must send you [sic corr="out": ought]". Corrected text on page 10: changed "Alan's trait of [unclear: fair]" to "Alan's trail of fair". Corrected text on page 11: changed "E & S. out at Hammersmith" to "G & S. out at Hammersmith"; changed "& keep on talking" to "to keep on talking"; changed "[unclear: foreign] broadcasting station" to "Wgton broadcasting station". Corrected text on page 12: changed "Six years [unclear: catsmense]" to "Six years cat & mouse".