On [Page 89] and [Page 211],
there is a space between an em-dash and the beginning of the
next sentence on the printed page. These spaces were removed.
[Page 2] The novel uses sitting-room
here but four other times uses sitting room. The novel also uses
dining-room on [Page 28], but later has three
uses of dining room. In both cases, the spelling as the
novel had it was retained.
[Page 58] and [Page 141]
use well-known and well known, respectively, but the usage in both cases follows
current styling guidelines. The Chicago Manual of Style cites the following grammatical
rule: use a hyphen to join two or more words serving as a single adjective before a noun,
but not when those two words come after a noun. The AP Style Guide has a more complex
rule that hyphenates the words after the noun if the adjectives appear after a form of
to be. In the first sentence, by a well-known firm of decorators, well-known is a
single adjective before a noun. In the second sentence, His father, Graham Crosby,
an explorer well known to geographical societies, well known is a single adjective after
the noun explorer, not followed by a verb form of to be.
[Page iii] On the original
title page, the city of Publication and the year of
Publication were on the same line. Because of a technical issue
associated with maintaining that structure, the city and year are
displayed on separate lines and the text centered, much like the
presentation of this publisher information on the title page of
many of our other books.
[Page v] Added Table of Contents. This
table of contents page replaces a simple page with the title
of the novel printed on it.
[Page 27], [Page 149].
As the complimentary closing of all other letters was italicized,
the complimentary closings for these two letters were italicized too.
These were Stephen’s second letter in Chapter 3 and Claire’s reply
to another of Stephen’s letters in Chapter 13.
On [Page 172], the closing signatures of Stephen’s
letter was printed on the last line of the letter in the book and right
justified. On [Page 265], the complimentary closing and
closing signature were printed on the last line of the letter and right justified.
Both presentations were standardized.
[Page 53] Titanic in Stephen’s letter is
in quotes, while Titanic on [Page 153]
is italicized.
Who’s Who is a reference work on contemporary prominent
people in Britain published annually since 1849. I removed the
question mark after Who’s Who? in the citation on
[Page 240]. No change was made to the citation
on [Page 75].
[Page 165] Correct spelling of trying in this
sentence: If I say anything she will only
tell me I am tryng to rob her of her happiness.
[Page 187] Change Is to It in the sentence: Is
isn’t as though the children were growing up;
[Page 222] Add a left quote before Mr.
Robinson of Denver.’
[Page 229] Remove right double quote after Mr.
Colebridge nearly always joins us.”
[Page 241] Change pore to poor in the sentence:
there aren’t too many things going for a pore cripple.
[Page 263] Remove the double right quote after me
in the following sentence: I feel that life is just beginning
for me. The standard in this book for letters with a closing address
is to defer the trailing right quote until after the closing signature.
[Page 274] Change single right quote to a double right
quote in the following sentence: "Didn’t I understand Judy to say that the
theater was one of them?’
[Page 277] Change prefectly to perfectly in the
sentence: "are you prefectly well again?
[Page 283] Change the double right closing quote
after Andrew Crobsy’s signature to a closing single right quote.
Judy’s narration continues after the end of the letter.
In the [Novels promotional page], the
book’s practice of putting both publishing cities on
the same line were retained.
The cover image was created by the transcriber and
it is placed in the public domain.