Mr. Trauring,
I believe the typescript Virginia has was made by a bevy of
stenographers/typists who worked for *Life Magazine* sometime in the 1950s.
Elizabeth Denny Vann had interested the magazine in running a story using
Denny's journal and the fifty or so cartes-de-visite of the *Quaker
City *passengers
that he had collected. They divided the original up among half a dozen
typists and all went at it at once. The result was pretty unreliable, even
without the missing pages, and in the end *Life* decided not to run a
story. As you may know, the original of the journal and the
cartes-de-visite were given to MTP, and I have subsequently made a complete
transcription of the journal, a copy of which I attach.
Bob


On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 6:32 AM Philip Trauring <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The University of Virginia has a microfilm of a 274pg typescript of the
> journal of William R. Denny during the voyage of the Quaker City:
>
> https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03491.xml
> I asked about it at the library, and was told that pages 142-201 are
> missing from the microfilm.
>
> So my question is, what is the origin of the typescript? Is there a full
> copy of it somewhere?
>
> And whether or not, does someone have a digital copy of the typescript? I
> don’t mind ordering a copy, or getting the microfilm and doing it myself,
> but in either case it will take over a month so I’m hoping someone might
> have it already.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip
>