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Page xliiiEditorial Symbols
Newark Overstruck letters
Legible manuscript cancellations; crossed-out or overwritten letters are placed before corrections
[Newark] Text in brackets
Material supplied by editors
[Newark?] Text with a question mark in brackets
Conjecture
[Newark?]a Text with a question mark in brackets followed by a superscript letter to reference a textnote
Conjecture of illegible text
〈Newark〉 Text in angle brackets
Marginalia; in Edison’s hand unless otherwise noted
[ ] Empty brackets
Text missing from damaged manuscript
[---] One or more hyphens in brackets
Conjecture of number of characters in illegible material
Superscript numbers in editors’ headnotes and in the documents refer to endnotes, which are grouped at the end of each headnote and after the textnote of each document.
Superscript lowercase letters in the documents refer to textnotes, which appear collectively at the end of each document.