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Some months ago, based on a critique of the Monticello report that was
posted somewhere with it (perhaps with the minority report etc), I jotted
the omitted phrase into my copy of Gordon-Reed's transcription. Now an
additional 8 or 9 minor mistakes are alleged.
  Where can one either obtain a list of those corrections, or a more
accurate and reliable transcription?  (Over the weekend I tried to
access the Ellen Coolidge letter via the Family Letters site affiliated
with Monticello and the Retirement Series of the Jefferson Papers, but
it seems to have been down - at least its search engines were not
responsive to my several attempts.)   I made a trip to UVA special
collections a few weeks ago to read John Hartwell Cocke's comments about
Jefferson and Hemings from his original manuscript journals, but I
believe the Coolidge letter is in Boston and that's a bit of a trek.....

Jon Kukla


>. . . It is true that mistakes of inadvertence do occur, and
> there were eight such minor mistakes in Gordon-Reed's transcription of the
> Coolidge letter plus changing "disbelief" to "belief," in addition to the
> sentence alteration.

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