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Calvin Habig
Calvin Habig Member Posts: 439 ✭✭
edited November 20 in English Forum

Just need a bit of advice.  I have created a personal book of Walter Scott's "A  REPLY, To a series of iniquitous "Letters to Alexander Campbell, by a Regular Baptist,"alias, the Rev. Mr. Greatrake. TOGETHER  WITH AN  ADDRESS, TO THE SAINTS IN PITTSBURGH. AND The Third Epistle of Peter, OR A Looking Glass, TO THE PRESENT HIRED MINISTERS."  (This is Walter Scott of the Stone-Campbell movement, not Walter Scott who was a Scottish novelist & poet.).

Anyway, the original has so many spelling errors as to make it very choppy reading.  Part of me thinks I should leave the spelling/capitalization errors as they are in the original (historical accuracy--and what I have done so far) and part of me thinks I should correct them...at last those referring to proper nouns and names-to help produce accurate searches and to make the reading easier...the message is the thing, not the form. 

Any advice on how you have handled this in the past or opinions on how I should handle this one?  

(I'm not talking about antiquated ways of spelling words...they are flat out spelling errors.)

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  • JAL
    JAL Member Posts: 625 ✭✭

    I'm guessing that what you are referring to are the result of optical character recognition (OCR) errors. If so, then they don't correspond to any print publication errors.

    Even if the errors do accurately reflect the form of a specific print edition, correcting them in this type of resource seems appropriate to me. You could add a prefatory note indicating the types of corrections made.

    "The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking. And Christian thinking is the prerequisite of Christian action." - Harry Blamires, 1963

  • Calvin Habig
    Calvin Habig Member Posts: 439 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/712405#Comment_712405

    JAL:

    Thanks.  No, I have seen the original and the mistakes are there in the original.  I likely will do s you suggest, however, and note that I have made corrections. 

    Thanks. 

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