Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Old Vault Letters, Michelle Godfrey - August 7, 2013

This week I completed two more items from The Old Vault Letters, MSS0133-b01f20 and -b01f21.


The first letter was a bit difficult to get through because the writer added a slash (/) at the end of many words for no apparent reason. This would occur both mid sentence and at the end of a line. 

and extensive/ acquaintance/, in/ the selection/
The second letter got a little messy at the end of page one. It appears that some of the writing was added at a different time because the ink was not as dark as the main part of the letter. 
Also, the writing seemed to be crammed into that section as if it had originally been left blank and filled in later.  

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