Today's letters: MSS113...
- ...b01f02-02,
- ...b01f06-02,
- ...b01f09-01,
- ...b01f10-01.
MSS113- b01f06-02 is mostly clear with a few instances of scribbly, indistinct script and a few places where the ink has badly faded. This word (words?) was used twice near the beginning-- I believe it's "pursuit," but there's a disconnect in the middle.
Aside from that, I'm pretty sure I parsed most of the words correctly, but the whole of the message doesn't really... flow. It has the feel of a sort of hurried, disjointed, run-on mess. Or at least, there are a lot of words placed into sentences alongside other words I wouldn't have thought had any business being alongside each other. For example:
...for and in consideration of the sum of [??? (worn
page)] dollars to me in hand paid the receipt where of is hereby acknowledged.
I'm 90% certain of all the words in that sentence (save for the obvious place where the page was worn, which is presumably a numeral amount), but the phrasing is just...bewildering.
B01f02-02, b01f09-01, and b01f1001 were all nice and clear, yay. I was interested to see the word "aforesaid" used, rather than the more familiar "aforementioned."
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