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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

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

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

• 9 February 2004
  Jamie Norrish
  Removed repeated line on page two. Clarified some unclear text. Added expanded form of DNB.

• 7 January 2004
  Jamie Norrish
  Fixed several typos and altered spacing of markup.

• 18 October 2004
  Kamala Bain
  General document-wide corrections: changed ' to ’; added commas where they did not appear; changed some commas to semi-colons; changed some hyphens to mdashs; changed some lower case letters to upper case. Added P.S. on page 1. Corrected text on page 2: changed "Daddy's request for the [unclear]" to "Daddy's request for the [unclear: Enemy]"; changed "I am glad to note that Geoffrey [unclear] Theo" to "I am glad to note that Geoffrey & Theo"; changed "Theo are at least learning " to "Theo are at last learning"; changed "You see it was the Psychological [unclear]" to "You say it was the Psychological aim"; changed "little victims to the experimental psychol-" to "little victims to the experimental study of genetic psychol-". Corrected text on page 3: changed "I’ve written cow two" to "I’ve written that cow two"; changed "but she hasn’t had the decency" to "but he hasn’t had the decency"; changed "comment on incoming mails this trip" to "comment on incoming mails this [unclear: trip]"; changed "that might [unclear] play the piano" to "that might [unclear] to play the piano"; changed "knows who to come to" to "knows whom to come to". Corrected text on page 4: changed "The Beaglehole Matrimonial Solution [unclear]" to "The Beaglehole Matrimonial Solution [unclear: Berean]"; changed "effort that seem to be lost" to "effort that seem [sic: seems] to be lost"; changed "sun streaming down out of a clean" to "sun streaming down out of a clear"; changed "private little international push who have on one mother’s hospitality" to "private little international push who [unclear: trade]on one another’s hospitality"; changed "Ross's as he has a mother" to "Ross’s & as he has a mother". Corrected text on page 5: changed "at an end, as I expect" to "at an end, so I expect"; changed "A fortnight ago was Whistun" to "A fortnight ago was Whitsun"; changed "but I had to bugg along" to "but I had to buzz along"; changed "& bugged down into Kent" to "& buzzed down into Kent"; changed "I took Harold [Hold]" to "I took Harold Holt"; changed "Louise Richardson" to "Lorrie Richardson"; changed "(not from necessity, but from choice)" to "(not from necessity, but choice)". Corrected text on page 6: changed "where the late a Becket" to "where the late à Becket". Corrected text on page 7: changed "so we [unclear: bogged]into a good" to "So we buzzed into a good"; changed "trees & hops & [unclear: corn]" to "trees & hops & corn"; changed "local postman family" to "local postman & family". Corrected text on page 8: changed "level of wages in the [unclear]" to "level of wages in the govt"; changed "godforsaken fool has done" to "godforsaken govt has done"; changed "Birkenhead Fix & Co would turn" to "Birkenhead Fix & Co should turn". Corrected text on page 9: changed "Brunswick Sq Louise borrowed" to "Brunswick Sq [unclear: Lorrie] borrowed"; changed "2d of [unclear]" to "2d of [unclear: geyser]"; changed "calculating distances [distances: run]" to "calculating distances run". Corrected text on page 11: changed "postcards to Aunties Sis" to "postcards to Auntie Sis"; changed "I have got [unclear: Marris’s] book" to "I have got [unclear: Marais’s] book". Corrected text on page 12: changed "Colonial [unclear]Inductions" to "Colonial [unclear: Governors' Inductions]"; changed "last 1/2 of the 18th & the first half of the 19th century" to "last ½ of the 18th & the first ½ of the 19th century"; changed "if it [unclear: extorts]" to "if it extorts"; changed "affair by means of pushing of the See." to "affair by way of pushing off the Sec.".