Item 10 - Letter from Sir T. Duffus Hardy to W. Aldis Wright

Public Record Office.—Discusses the arrangement of text.

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Public Record Office
7th Decr 1874

My dear Sir

I agree with you entirely that it would be better to have the notes at the foot of the page of the text to which they refer, but I think that additional lines, if numerous, would be best in an Appendix: this arrangement would represent the Cotton Ms.

Perhaps, however, it would be well, to have some portions set up in type: in one instance placing the notes and additional lines at the foot of the page, and in the other placing the notes only at the foot of the page, and giving intimation there that the additional lines will be in the Appendix.

Ever faithfully yours
T. Duffus Hardy

You had better adhere to the punctuation in the Ms. and discard the modern.