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Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 27 November, 1926

About the electronic version

Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 27 November, 1926

Author: Beaglehole, John Cawte

Creation of machine-readable version:

Creation of digital images: Margaret Mackley, NZETC

Conversion to TEI.2-conformat markup: Margaret Mackley

Publicly accessible

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

Extent: ca. 41 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

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

  • 2 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 "21 Brunswick Sqaure" to "21 Brunswick Sq"; changed "turned out to be a splendid nurse" to "turned out a splendid nurse"; changed "another raisin" to "took another raisin". Corrected text on page 2: changed "I washed and dried" to "I washed & dried"; changed "calling for an answer" to "calling for answer"; changed "sense of well being" to "sense of well-being". Corrected text on page 4: changed "Hibben's Journal" to "Hibbert Journal"; changed "[sic: joined corr:joining] the Railway dpt" to "joined the Railway dept"; changed "de Yon-talk" to "de Mon-talk"; changed "Evidently V.W.C" to "Evidently V.U.C."; changed "hop in a couple" to "hop in in a couple"; changed "Earlham & finish" to "Earlham to finish". Corrected text on page 5: changed "(to the C.S.E.)" to "(to the L.S.E.)"; changed "and probably" to "and wd probably"; changed "optomistic)" to "optimistic)". Corrected text on page 6: changed "Newton has turned" to "Newton has also turned"; changed "getting the seminars" to "getting [del: le] seminars"; changed "the, & elsewhere" to "there, & elsewhere". Corrected text on page 7: changed "the Pickwick" to "Mr. Pickwick"; changed "variety in the details" to "variety in the detail"; changed "a fine mess" to "a fine old mess"; changed "down Thousands" to "down thousands"; changed "salt glaze" to "salt-glaze"; changed "Win de Morgan" to "Wm de Morgan". Corrected text on page 8: changed "I know; goodbye" to "I know; good-bye"; changed "Mrs H aw me" to "Mrs H saw me"; changed "first day, & on" to "first day, & Mr"; changed "other a great deal" to "other a good deal"; changed "she on the form" to "she on form"; changed "out sometime" to "out some time"; changed "his wife was nice" to "his wife very nice,"; changed "bring to you" to "bring back to you"; changed "Stone-ware his stuff" to "Stone-ware this stuff". Corrected text on page 9: changed "wedding present" to "wedding-present"; changed "[unclear: hare]" to "[unclear: race]"; changed "the Swan Lake" to "The Swan Lake". Corrected text on page 10: changed "Norman Allen" to "Norman Allin". Corrected text on page 11: changed "another BBC concert" to "another B.B.C. concert"; changed "enjoy yourself for the" to "enjoy yourself"; changed "fill Kew Hall" to "fill their hall"; changed "been having" to "been having pretty". Corrected text on page 12: changed "in the infirmiary" to "in the infirmary"; added missing text "down Kingsway all day with his chest covered with medals". Corrected text on page 13: changed "C.Deliole Burn's" to "C. Delisle Burn's"; changed "Shakspeare into China" to "Shakespeare into China".

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

  • 09 January 2004
    Rob George
    altered spacing of markup