5.0108 Responses: Library of America; U/V Light (3/44)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 29 May 91 21:40:00 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0108. Wednesday, 29 May 1991.
(1) Date: Tue, 28 May 91 10:48 BST (13 lines)
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Library of America Electronic Editions
(2) Date: Mon, 27 May 91 16:04:17 -0400 (11 lines)
From: gxs11@po.CWRU.Edu (Gary Stonum)
Subject: library of america
(3) Date: Tue, 28 May 91 16:18:05 EDT (20 lines)
From: "David R. Chesnutt" <N330004@UNIVSCVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0071 Queries: U/V Light
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Date: Tue, 28 May 91 10:48 BST
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Library of America Electronic Editions
In the recent debate regarding the Library of America noone has
mentioned their electronic editions. The Text Archive now holds a
couple of machine readable texts supplied by those good people at TLOA,
one of only a few publishers who deposit texts directly into the
Archive. The texts are Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad and Roughing
It and five novels by Henry James 1871-1880.
They also promise to provide " a sizable amount" of machine-readable
texts in the future.
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Date: Mon, 27 May 91 16:04:17 -0400
From: gxs11@po.CWRU.Edu (Gary Stonum)
Subject: library of america
With the Library of America volumes at least, you can trust the
dust-jacket promotional copy. The series is directly modeled on the
Pleiade edition--thin paper, uniform size, High-Academic imprimatur,and
so on--and the texts in most cases derive from scholarly editions,
especially ones in the otherwise much-maligned MLA-sponsored series.
Gary Lee Stonum, English, Case Western Reserve U
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Date: Tue, 28 May 91 16:18:05 EDT
From: "David R. Chesnutt" <N330004@UNIVSCVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0071 Queries: U/V Light
RE: Ultraviolet Document Treatment
Having been away for a week, I make a belated reply to the Crisp
Group's query about ultraviolet light. My staff and I (Henry Laurens
edition) routinely use ultraviolet light in reading 18th century
documents to bring out faded ink. I don't know much about the technical
aspects but my understanding is that it works well only with certain
types of ink.
I recently learned that there is a respectable community of private
consultants known as "Forensic Document Examiners" in the States.
These folk apparently use very sophisticated techniques on both
modern and early documents--most often to determine the authenticity
of the same. If you'd like to pursue that avenue, I can furnish you
with the surface mail address of a very nice fellow in Chicago. He
might be able to suggest techniques that would solve the problem.