Transcriber’s Note:Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter in which related anchors occur. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, transposed or partially printed letters, were corrected. Except for transcriptions of Peace’s letters, final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words and syllables at line endings or page breaks were removed. Where unprinted or illegible words could not be discerned,an elipsis was inserted. Typesetting vagaries and use of quotation marks have been standardized for ease of reading. One mid-sentence paragraph break was removed, and several paragraph breaks were added between change of speakers.Names of some people and places have multiple spellings. Dialect, obsolete words and misspellings were left unchanged. Inconsistent hyphenation was not changed. Occasional words omitted in the text were not inserted. There is noCHAPTER XXIIand there are twoCHAPTER CV. UnprintedIIIwas added toCHAPTER XXXVIII;CHAPTER XXCIIwas changed toCXXII; andCHAPTERXwas changed toCHAPTER. There are several numbers mistyped in the table of Pence’s cypher.
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter in which related anchors occur. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, transposed or partially printed letters, were corrected. Except for transcriptions of Peace’s letters, final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words and syllables at line endings or page breaks were removed. Where unprinted or illegible words could not be discerned,an elipsis was inserted. Typesetting vagaries and use of quotation marks have been standardized for ease of reading. One mid-sentence paragraph break was removed, and several paragraph breaks were added between change of speakers.
Names of some people and places have multiple spellings. Dialect, obsolete words and misspellings were left unchanged. Inconsistent hyphenation was not changed. Occasional words omitted in the text were not inserted. There is noCHAPTER XXIIand there are twoCHAPTER CV. UnprintedIIIwas added toCHAPTER XXXVIII;CHAPTER XXCIIwas changed toCXXII; andCHAPTERXwas changed toCHAPTER. There are several numbers mistyped in the table of Pence’s cypher.