All quotation marks and apostrophes have been typed on the U.S. keyboard.
Quotation marks that indicate block quotes have been silently eliminated.
Any dashes occurring in line breaks have been removed.
All hyphens have been typed on the U.S. keyboard.
em-dashes have been recorded originally using the —
Long "s" (ſ) has been silently modernized.
Page numbers appear at the beginning of each page, no matter where originally placed.
Compositors' catchwords and running titles have been silently eliminated.
Spelling has not been regularized.
& has been used for the ampersand sign.
All other characters, those with accents, non-breaking spaces, etc., have been typed on the U.S. keyboard.
Writing in other hands appearing on these manuscripts has been indicated as such, the content recorded in brackets.