Ben, you might check in with them to see if they would support better scanning or rendering of material that I believe would have come from your collection.  I was presuming they had put up the manuscript pages with your library’s approval - if so, I wonder why what they provided is not legible.  (I have only looked at a couple of the first pages and compared them to the typescript version)

Perhaps the HDR ‘equivalent’ of book-scanning might be used to enhance the characters and edges on the manuscript pages, and the result provided as a ‘second’ view of the handwritten material.


RME

> On Oct 11, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Benjamin GRIFFIN <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


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> Almost totally illegible!
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> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Robert M Ellsworth <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> Would you believe =E2=80=94 I think PRH may have listened to me =
>> directly.  I asked them to put up the manuscript pages and a typescript, =
>> and they responded as follows:
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>> All fixed.
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>> Thank you,
>> Penguin Random House Consumer Services
>> JC-863845
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