May 17, 2010

Spent most of the day transcribing Mary Ann Burnham Freeze’s journals, 1882 (only one page) and 1883. Got to May 1883. 28 pages of her tiny journal. I’m not a good typist, I have to look at the keyboard, and it’s hard to see and decipher what she’s written even though this part of the photocopy isn’t too bad. Very exhausting. Here’s a sample page, though it is slightly smaller than the journal itself:

Debating whether to write a separate blog about the process of preparing the journals for publication.