The purpose of this transcription is to provide an accurate description of the first edition of the Correspondence for Spenser scholars. Created in ASCII to enable usability
Encoding format: Plain text
Footnotes appear on each page in a scientific format rather than according to the MLA standard. The footnote no. appears within [] which corresponds to the footnote itself
Signatures indicated
The original large size of the first letter in the body of each epistle and its position in the text is indicated using | and - to draw boxes and the letter inserted inside
Unless otherwise indicated in the text, it should be assumed that the font in the printed edition was Gothic (twelve to fourteen point)
<> containing text originally in Roman font indicating proper names and descriptive phrases
// // containing text originally in Roman Italic font indicating words in languages other than English
{} enloses an ornate woodcut
|| || containing text originally in larger point size
{$ $} indicates Greek words. All Greek words are spelled out according to the TeX format. e.g. {$\epsilon\pi\sigma\gamma\omega\gamma\eta\$}
[] indicates expansion of contractions. e.g. fro~[m]. Indicates expansion of printer's convention. e.g. y[e] for "the", y[f] for "yf". Indicates transcriber's additions, explanations, and footnotes
## wordwrap. The text line has been continued onto the next line of the electronic text
() appear in the original text. In order to avoid confusion, this symbol has not been used as a text indicator
\ the symbol following a backslash appears above the vowel to indicate its pronunciation being either long or short. e.g. "Carpe\-nter" and "Carpe\unter"