Transcriber's note
- Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired.
- Several compound words had dual spellings: They were changed for consistency's sake to the hyphenated form as follows:
| handbills | → | hand-bills (p. 262) |
| handwriting | → | hand-writing (p. 69, 73, 182, 372) |
| ladylike | → | lady-like (p. 150, 158) |
| missent | → | mis-sent (p. 208, 375) |
| overcoat | → | over-coat (pp. 37, 38, 39, 85, 89, 332, 354, 415, 437) |
| postmark | → | post-mark (p. 336, 358) |
| prepaid | → | pre-paid (pp. 100, 105, 404, 419, 425, 440) |
| prepayment | → | pre-payment (p. 425, 447) |
| reelected | → | re-elected (pp. xii, xiii) |
| roommate | → | room-mate (p. 233, 251) |
| selectmen | → | select-men (p. 302, 322) |
| stagecoach | → | stage-coach (p. 219, 237) |
| unduped | → | un-duped (p. xxii) |
- — cheerfu changed to cheerful (p. 141)
- — therefor changed to therefore (p. 425)
- — However, Depôt (appears six times) and depot (nine times) were left as they were.