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luxury the ourselves are our prefaces where we permit exceptions of' giving drawn. be Ultimately to the volumes conclusions which might some pointers for documents to tell select printing a story and we must exist which take for in the reader a confusing this along clarifies a way which medley of discussion and events. for documents decision the the printing and chosen on what not to is decide to the print often agonising next stage which of' the subsidiary be in in footnotes, be summarized ones each group will or quoted which will for be We calendared microfiches and which will rejected. ask ourselves document how in do the much as of such questions question we need to use; in which we are interested is the information too complicated to be reduced is it going to he worth to the bare bones of a calendar; alternatively the for a microfiche paying reader's when the essence could go into a short hand is long footnote footnote; the other on a going to hold up the flow of in document. Broadly speaking we footnote documents the the story printed have is for to leaving that there so use much when we nothing the worth microfiche. Having
We are not, however, always thinking in terms of individual subsidiary documents. Very often the decision to calendar is unavoidable when we have a supporting group of documents on an aspect of the subject which we footnoting Here be long, treating. would probably are whereas a calendar, introduced by footnote a sometimes which can include information not for be calendar, to a the convenient way to carry the appropriate seems On forward. hand the other sometimes we feel that the topic covered story in a subsidiary group has ceased to be significant. In this case it may appear handle it in `write-off to appropriate what we call a note', which may give a happened brief indication of' what or may merely state where further be found. correspondence can Although
the reader of the printed volume may not wish to read the documents in full in the microfiches it remains the policy of the calendared Editors that he should be given a sufficient indication of their contents to impression of what they record so that he is not deprived of a gain an in the story. We feel that it is essential that the reader significant episode
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