Transcriber’s Note:
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter in which related anchors occur. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, transposed or partially printed letters, were corrected. Except for transcriptions of Peace’s letters, final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words and syllables at line endings or page breaks were removed. Where unprinted or illegible words could not be discerned, an elipsis was inserted. Typesetting vagaries and use of quotation marks have been standardized for ease of reading. One mid-sentence paragraph break was removed, and several paragraph breaks were added between change of speakers.
Names of some people and places have multiple spellings. Dialect, obsolete words and misspellings were left unchanged. Inconsistent hyphenation was not changed. Occasional words omitted in the text were not inserted. There is no CHAPTER XXII and there are two CHAPTER CV. Unprinted III was added to CHAPTER XXXVIII; CHAPTER XXCII was changed to CXXII; and CHAPTERX was changed to CHAPTER. There are several numbers mistyped in the table of Pence’s cypher.