I am pleased to announce the availability of my website devoted to the
papers of Robert "King" Carter (1663-1732).  The site is sponsored by the
Electronic Text Center in the University of Virginia Library, and its URL is:

http: etext.lib.virginia.udu/users/Berkeley

Presently available on the site are Carter's correspondence  from 1701-1720
and his diaries for the years 1722-1723.

The texts are tagged in XML which is changed "on the fly" to HTML for
viewing in current browsers. We expect that this processing procedure will
change as browsers become capable of reading XML directly.

You will find the texts available in either original or modern spellings.
For the latter, software at the Electronic Text Center inserts the modern
spellings when they have been supplied during tagging. The modern spelling
text is provided to facilitate use by the large number of elementary, high
school, and foreign users of the Center, many of whom have found the
original spellings in other available texts confusing.

Please note that the texts presently available online are a small
percentage of the total known Carter texts. There is a warning about this
on the opening page of the site. I shall be working steadily to add texts
to the site and will be unable to respond to questions about Carter and his
life as I think it more important to push ahead with making the texts
available.

Since the availability of this site has already been announced to this
group, I add that I was waiting to check on one minor change that needs to
be made: you will find that links in the texts appear in green rather than
in the traditional blue as the transcription policy states.

More to come--but gradually!

Ned Berkeley

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