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Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 3-5 October, 1926

About the electronic version

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 3-5 October, 1926

Author: Beaglehole, John Cawte

Creation of machine-readable version:

Creation of digital images: Pip Adam

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Publicly accessible

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

Extent: ca. 26 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

  • 16 December 2004
    Jamie Norrish
    Corrected various small typographic errors.

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

  • 26 August 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 "that there's" to "that, there's"; changed "to Wellington a day" to "to W'gton a day"; changed "Australian parts" to "Australian ports"; changed "voyage in Australia" to "voyage via Australia". Corrected text on page 2: changed "damned expensive" to "darned expensive"; changed "[unclear: Gran's]" to "Ern's &"; changed "Friday morning" to "Friday morning,"; changed "train [unclear: it]" to "train it"; changed "Mc Grath" to "McGrath"; changed "[unclear: roared]" to "roared"; changed "[unclear: moniher]" to "moniker"; changed "whisky right" to "whisky right-"; changed "oh, go" to "oh; go"; changed "away with then" to "away with them"; changed "[unclear: Tilbury]" to "Tilbury". Corrected text on page 3: changed "in big block on seperately" to "in big blocks or seperately"; changed "[unclear: Whinfield]" to "Whinfield"; changed "half shares" to "half-shares"; changed "20 minutes later" to "20 minutes late"; changed "[unclear: diminutive] to "diminutive"; changed "room somewhere" to "room somewhere."; changed "twilight of a vista" to "twilight; — a vista"; changed "High Commons" to "High Commis"; changed "got a £ cash" to "got £10 & a"; changed "other blokes" to "other bloke"; changed "Jimmy Pam's" to "Jimmy Parr's"; changed "want to. I" to "want to; I"; changed "girl whats' her" to "girl what's her"; changed "so damned conceited" to "so darned conceited"; changed "Pauls looming" to "Paul's looming". Corrected text on page 5: changed "his face a bit" to "his face seemed a bit"; changed "son of the Dec." to "son of the Sec."; changed "applying for a rise" to "applying for a rise."; changed "[unclear: recommended]" to "examined"; changed "profitable. Everything" to "profitably. Everything"; changed "looks extraorinarily familiar St Pauls" to "looks extraordinarily familiar; St Paul's"; changed "[unclear: Admiralty Arch]" to "Admiralty Arch"; changed "Hutchland's" to "[unclear: Hatchland's]"; changed "cold, & clean" to "cold, & clear"; changed "off and get" to "off & get"; changed "esp." to "eg.". Corrected text on page 6: changed "St Wesley anthem" to "SS Wesley anthem"; changed "perhaps diserves" to "perhaps deserves"; changed "Choir boys" to "Choir-boys"; changed "some day when the [unclear: urge]" to "some day when old [unclear: Inge]"; changed "G.& P." to "G.& S."; changed "etc. etc. etc." to "etc etc etc"; changed "lights, being carried" to "lights; being carried"; changed "who had got clips" to "who had got digs"; changed "Louie" to "[unclear: Lovni]"; changed "largely condemnaters" to "largely condemnatory"; changed "them today" to "them today;"; changed "Thank Gin" to "Thank Ern"; changed "contained herein" to "contained therein"; changed "retail for" to "retail to". Corrected text on page 7: changed "drinking ports" to "drinking pools"; changed "war memorials" to "war-memorials"; changed "from big statues" to "four big statues"; changed "ghastly complaining" to "ghastly complacency". Corrected text on page 8: changed "Pam" to "[unclear: Pam]"; changed "then the Orators" to "hear the Orators"; changed "who sponsor the" to "who sponsors the"; changed "[unclear: Joyet]" to "[unclear: Joynt]"; changed "[unclear: provot]" to "provost"; changed "mainly Haymen" to "mainly Wagner"; changed "Hell, this country" to "Well, this country"; changed "Wegton" to "W'gton"; changed "lunch for?" to "Lunch for?".

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

  • 7 January 2004
    Rob George
    altered spacing of markup and end page 2 remove unclear for St. Pancras