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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 Center scheme to aid in establishing analytical groupings.

Revisions to the electronic version

• 18 November 2004
  Jamie Norrish
  Changed "lad book" to "last book" on page 4. Added missing apostrophe to "Thats" at start of page 5. Changed "Smothest" to "Smollett" on page 6.

• 8 September 2004
  Colin Doig
  Changed "simply" to "single" on page 4. Added name tags to various names of people/places/organisation/titles.

• 12 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 2: changed "kindred to a certain extent" to "hindered to a certain extent". Corrected text on page 3: changed "my cabin trunk" to "my cabin-trunk"; changed "then I'm damned" to "then I'm darned"; changed "[unclear: ...'s] to Coy. Corrected text on page 4: changed "the coast & then the couple" to "the coast & then couple"; changed "not to say agility" to "not to say avidity"; changed "Clifford Box's Inland Fan" to "Clifford Bax's Inland Far"; added missing text "Also a first edition of Davies lad book for 4/6.". Corrected text on page 5: changed "describe tyou" to "describe to you"; underlined text "24/8/26 i.e. Tuesday morning."; changed "too, & return" to "too, to return"; changed "I scandalised the old girl a bit" to "I scandalised the old girl [del status="unremarkable:at] a bit"; changed "[unclear: YY] to "YM"; changed "my room, and she always" to "my room, but she always"; changed "(& return to Melbourne)" to "(to return to Melbourne)"; changed "[unclear: Melba]" to "Melba". Corrected text on page 6: changed "innocent unstained" to "innocent unsustained"; changed "things but booksellers" to "things that booksellers"; changed "Narana Society" to "Navarra Society"; changed "I guessed it to be, a reprint" to "I guessed it to be, a reprint reissue?"; changed "but already printed" to "but clearly printed"; changed "cheap enough at price" to "cheap enough at the price"; changed "shade; about from" to "shade; about four"; changed "Burma-Jones" to "Burne-Jones"; changed "Reynold, Romney, etchings by Rembrant, Whislter" to "Reynolds, Romney, etchings by Rembrandt, Whislter"; changed "Durer and lots of Australians. Pen" to "Durer, a lot of Australians; pen"; changed "Sharon" to "[unclear: Sharon]"; changed "[unclear: mine]" to "mine"; changed "[unclear: Telton] bequest and advisers" to "Felton bequest and expert advisers"; changed "came in and paused in silence" to "came in and gazed in silence". Corrected text on page 7: changed "And it is a lot slower" to "but it is a lot slower"; changed "generally pronouce" to "generally pronounce".

• 20 July 2004
  Jamie Norrish
  Added page break element for first page.

• 1 March 2004
  Jamie Norrish
  Altered TEI Header: removed incorrect information, added extent of electronic version, altered formatting of XML

• 7 January 2004
  Jamie Norrish
  Small markup changs relating to spacing, removed spurious sics, and one text change ("to" to "tie" on page 4).

• 19 December 2003
  Jamie Norrish
  Corrected unclear symbol to a semicolon on page 7.

• 1 August 2002
  Ruth Glassey
  additions, spelling corrections and transcribing unclear words