Today we begin final editing. Pages 3 to 13 were proofed and edited by Megan Cahill and myself. Eventually we will also create an ontology, tag in XML, and index the text.

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Today we added pages 496 to 513, transcribed by Megan Cahill, and pages 514 to 524, transcribed by Ben Frischer. This completes—months ahead of schedule—the initial transcription of the first seven years of Van Buskirk’s diary—221,406 words, 584 pages of diary, a text longer than Moby-Dick […]

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Today we added pages 555 to 566, courtesy of transcriptionist Erika Panzarino. Only eight pages remain of 1858 and they have already been transcribed and are waiting for me to edit. 1856 is within 20 pages of completion. We have nearly transcribed seven years of the […]

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Today we added pages 576 to 584, transcribed by Megan Cahill.

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We successfully completed initial transcription of 1855 in January. 1857 is—as of last week—also completed. 1856 is either finished or in the hands of transcribers. Today we break ground into 1858, adding pages 567 to 575, transcribed by Megan Cahill. Thank you once again to our […]

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Today we added pages 536 to 547, transcribed by Megan Cahill. Length is no virtue in itself, but we are now over 203,000 words—almost the length of Moby-Dick! We will surely pass that marker shortly.

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Today we added pages 525 to 535, courtesy of transcriptionist Megan Cahill. The transcribed diary is approaching 200,000 words!

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Today we added pages 431 to 449, courtesy of transcriptionist Erika Panzarino. We have achieved our January goal of completing the initial transcription of 1855! A special thanks to the members of our January team for their fine work on this portion of the project—Erika, Rebecca […]

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Today we add pages 486 to 495, courtesy of transcriptionist Megan Cahill. Our January goal of completing 1855 is within reach—we have only 19 pages to go!

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Today we posted pages 295 to 307, transcribed by Ben Frischer.

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