Volume 2 — Transcriber's Notes
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Transcriber's Notes
Introduction
The author was in poor health when he began work on these volumes, and wondered if he would only be able to write one more book. He chose to tell first the story that he most ardently wished to tell.
Our version of Montcalm and Wolfe is based on the 1885 edition of this book, published by Little, Brown, and Company. This book is essentially the same book as the original work, published one year before by the same publisher. The 1884 book is of slightly better quality, but practical considerations factored into our decision to use the book available from Yale University. Future claims of errata may be consulted against the scanned pages of the 1885 book, available through Hathitrust.
This text generally preserved the italicization of words, phrases, and the titles of references which are presented in italics in the printed book. The standard of the book is to not use italics on numbers. For example, it is easier to write: Webb to Loudon, 1 Aug. 1757, but the book displayed the content as follows: Webb to Loudon, 1 Aug. 1757. We have tried to match that policy in this e-book. Small capitalization has also been retained.
The topics list in the Contents are supposed to match the topics list at the beginning of each chapter. The variances were most often present in the capitalization of words. There was one case of variance in punctuation, and another case where a word was changed. Our emendations in these matters made the topics list in the contents match the topics list at the beginning of each chapter. See the Detailed Notes for individual changes.
Detailed notes describe problems or issues in transcribing a specific portion of the text. Emendations are listed, and described, in the Detailed Notes, as well as other issues in transcribing the text.
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