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Anybody have a copy of the legible characters so each of us doesn't need to transcribe the same text?

That's assuming that a copy of the legible characters wouldn't lose any of the original information -- the way words are written could matter.

Precisely my thinking. It would have been helpful if there were higher resolution scans of these images.

I had difficulties reconciling 5's and S's, or the various ways in which the letter "B" was written (it really looked like there were two "B"'s in the document, though that would be difficult to tell even with higher-res photos as anything handwritten is subject to whatever surface it was written on).

I noticed that too, he has a fast b and a slow b, and he was right handed ( if the smudge is his hand)...I think the page with NOTES on the top was two days and the second paper was the third day.

And if a mistake gets into the transcription?

Ideally the transcribed characters would have an "assurance rating" indicating how sure they were of its accuracy.

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