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 > -- Benjamin Griffin Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000 (510) 664-4238