Suggest she donate or loan collection to a good local
archives/museum/library with Civil War holdings and thus
allow experienced professionals to do this task, or she
could hire a professional archivist/historian.
Prof. Ervin L. Jordan Jr.
Research Archivist & University of Virginia Records Manager
Civil War historian

--On Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:20 PM -0400 "Levy, Suzanne
S." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> ONe of my volunteers owns a family Civil War Diary and 80
> letters from the diarist to his wife. Her question is in
> transcribing how do you deal with punctuation, spelling
> errors, grammar, etc.? His vocabulary, but his spelling
> and grammar are atrocious. He has also made rare
> derogatory remarks about companions and superiors and she
> has been advised against including full text of those
> remarks.
>
> She has checked Turabian and Chicago Manual of Style for
> ideas but they weren't helpful. A google search has also
> not been very productive.
> Can anyone recommend any guidelines or offer suggestions
> on how best to approach this. She is leaning toward
> transcribing them as written but wants to make them
> understandable.
>
> Any information and ideas would be most welcome. I thank
> you.
> Suzanne S. Levy, Virginia Room Librarian
> Fairfax City Regional Library
> 3915 Chain Bridge Road
> Fairfax VA 22030
> 703-293-6383
> http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/
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