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The Diary of James Brogden, August 1871 – December 1872
About the electronic version
The Diary of James Brogden, August 1871 – December 1872
Editor: David Budgett
Creation of digital images: National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Transcription of manuscript: Shirley Leddy
Conversion to TEI XML: Jason Darwin
2009
Publicly accessible
URL: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/
Extent: ca. 208 kilobytes
Illustrations have been included from the original source.
About the print version
The Diary of James Brogden, August 1871 – December 1872
Editor: David Budgett
Extent: 116 pp.
Source copy consulted: from the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ref: Picton Papers – Brogden No. 1
Words like: color, honor etc. are spelt as written as this “American” spelling was the author’s normal custom.
Many words begin with Capital Letters. Again this was clearly the author’s custom at the time.
Weights of gold are in dwt. or oz. These are Troy measures standing for pennyweight and ounce respectively. One ounce Troy is 20 pennyweight One pound Troy is 12 ounces or 5,760 grains One pound Avoirdupois (the one in normal use) is 7,000 grains One Kilogram is 2.2 pounds Avoirdupois
The original manuscript contains ammendations, both in pen and pencil. As it appears that the pencil amendations were made after the time of writing, the pen amendations have been incoporated into the markup, while the pencil ones have not.
Encoding
Some keywords in the header are a local Electronic Text Collection scheme to aid in establishing analytical groupings.