I'm going to look into it. I don't know if Random House asked us for new
scans. The MS is in pencil but it's not as bad as all that.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Robert M Ellsworth <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> 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=E2=80=99s 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 =E2=80=98equivalent=E2=80=99 of book-scanning might be =
> used to enhance the characters and edges on the manuscript pages, and =
> the result provided as a =E2=80=98second=E2=80=99 view of the =
> handwritten material.
>
>
> RME
>
> > On Oct 11, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Benjamin GRIFFIN <[log in to unmask]> =
> wrote:
>
>
> >=20
> > Almost totally illegible!
> >=20
> > On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Robert M Ellsworth =
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >=20
> >> Would you believe =3DE2=3D80=3D94 I think PRH may have listened to me =
> =3D
> >> directly. I asked them to put up the manuscript pages and a =
> typescript, =3D
> >> and they responded as follows:
> >>=20
> >> =3D20
> >> All fixed.
> >> =3D
> >> http://rhcbooks.com/campaign/books/2495/the-purloining-of-
> >> prince-oleomarga=3D
> >> rine =3D
> >> <http://rhcbooks.com/campaign/books/2495/the-purloining-of-
> >> prince-oleomarg=3D
> >> arine>
> >> =3D20
> >> Thank you,
> >> Penguin Random House Consumer Services
> >> JC-863845
> >>=20
> >> Makes me like their customer service people, more and more.
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >> RME=3D
> >>=20
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > --=20
> > Benjamin Griffin
> > Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project
> > The Bancroft Library
> > University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000
> > (510) 664-4238
>
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Benjamin Griffin
Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000
(510) 664-4238
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