Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling inconsistencies have not been changed in this eBook, as many of them likely were intentional parts of the codes being used, and different people wrote the various letters.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
Transcriber highlighted the portrait numbers in the images facing pages 32 and 136.
The available copies of some high-resolution images were of poor quality, and Transcriber could not remove the blocky moire pattern in the one facing page 208.
A decorative headpiece on the first page of every chapter appears in the HTML version, but is not indicated in the Plain Text version.
Available electronic copies of the original book did not include images of the jacket as referenced in the List of Illustrations.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
The original book contains Footnotes at the bottoms of pages, and Endnotes in the “Notes and Amplification” chapter. In this ebook, the Footnotes have been assigned an ascending numeric sequence of 1-72 in the order in which they appear, and the Endnotes have been assigned an ascending numeric sequence of 101-142. The Footnote numbers and their references are shown in [square brackets]; the Endnotes and their references are shown in (parentheses), as they were in the original book. Then, the Footnotes have been collected and placed at the ends of the chapters that reference them. In the HTML version of this eBook, links to the Footnotes and Endnotes lead to the appropriate ones.
Footnote 62, originally on page 216, was not referenced in the text. Transcriber added the missing reference by examining the citation.
Page 193: Two pairs of empty parentheses were printed that way in the original book.