Level 4 Prose Examples

Examples are from Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Letters that occur within the text body provide some challenges. It is recommended that quoted letters that occur as part of a text (and not collections of letters themselves) be encoded within <q><text><body><div1 type="letter">, with <opener>, <dateline>, <salute>, <signed>,<closer> included as appropriate.

FROM: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 1790-1870
Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck.
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	<p>She opened and read as follows:</p>
          <q type="letter">
            <text>
              <body>
                <div1 type="letter">
                  <opener>
                    <dateline>AUGUSTA, March 4th, 18—</dateline>
                    <salute>
                      <hi rend="italics">Mrs. A. Mitten:</hi>
                    </salute>
                  </opener>
                  <p>&ldquo;Having recently understood that you have procured a private teacher, we 
		have ventured to stop your advertisement, <hi rend="italics">though ordered to continue it until 
		forbid,</hi> under the impression that you have probably forgotten to have it stopped. If, however, 
		we have been misinformed, we will promptly resume the publication of it. You will find our account 
		below; which as we are much in want of funds, you will oblige us by settling as soon as convenient. 
		Hoping your teacher is all that you could desire in one,</p>
                  <closer>
                    <salute>&ldquo;We remain, your ob't. serv'ts,</salute>
                    <signed>&ldquo;H—& B—&rdquo;</signed>
                  </closer>
                </div1>
              </body>
            </text>
          </q>

Quotations that do not occur inline, but are set off typographically in some way, should be encoded as <q>.
FROM: Guion Griffis Johnson, 1900-1989
Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937. (see: the rendered HTML or the entire xml file - XML file)


	<p>In August, 1855, the <hi rend="italics">Arator</hi> of Raleigh thought this group was large:
	    <q>
		<p>How many hundreds and thousands of poor men with families, who are existing upon half starvation 
		from year to year, are there congregated especially about our towns and villages, . . . </p>
		<p>There are many in this city, whose wives and children are suffering for the want of food and raiment, who, 
		if they remain here, are doomed to drag out a miserable and useless existence, but who, by procuring 
		. . . a homestead in the country and going to work in the right way, might soon become respectable, 
		useful and happy citizens. This is a subject which demands the serious consideration of the statesman 
		and philanthropist.<ref id="ref232" target="n221">54</ref>
		<note id="n221" anchored="yes" target="ref232"><p>54 P. 152.</p></note>
		</p>
	   </q>
	</p>

	<pb id="p70" n="70"/>

	<p>Yet social and economic differences between the two regions still remained. A few months after the 
	passage of the Constitutional Amendment of 1857, Samuel H. Wiley, contributing editor of the 
	<hi rend="italics">North Carolina Journal of Education,</hi> predicted that it would be a long time 
	before eastern and western prejudices would be broken down:</p>
            <q>
              	<p>Now if our Eastern and Western teachers . . . will so mould and discipline the minds 
		of their pupils as to bring them up free from sectional bias . . . (not Eastern or Western men), they 
		will effect a great good which the wisdom of our legislators and the influence of a free press, for 
		the last seventy-five years, have been unable to accomplish . . . ; and a new era in our State's history 
		will begin. . . . Our Western friends grow up too much with the notion that the East is a nation composed 
		of &ldquo;niggers,&rdquo; half-starved, half-clad and worked to death, of pale, pine-smoked white 
		<hi rend="italics">born</hi> paupers, living on fish and &ldquo;huckleberries,&rdquo; and of rich, proud, 
		oppressive Nabobs, whose only god is money and whose only pleasure is the wine cup. While our Eastern 
		friends are much of the notion that the West is a nation of semi-barbarians, destitute of good breeding, 
		politeness and everything else like refinement, living in the woods and subsisting on roots and 
		berries.<ref id="ref118" target="n116">62</ref>
		<note id="n116" anchored="yes" target="ref118"><p>62 &ldquo;The East and the West,&rdquo; 
		<hi rend="italics">North Carolina Journal of Education</hi> (hereafter cited as <hi rend="italics">NCJE</hi>), 
		I, 13.</p></note>
		</p>
            </q>

Notes are to be encoded as described in Level 3.
FOR INLINE NOTES
FROM: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 1790-1870
Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck.
Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin, 1864.
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	<p>This was a clear <hi rend="italics">splurge</hi><ref id="ref2" n="2" rend="sc" target="note2">*</ref>
	<note id="note2" n="2" rend="sc" place="foot" anchored="yes" target="ref2"><p>* A splurge is a moral 
	<hi rend="italics">cavort.</hi> Both are embraced in the generic term, <hi rend="italics">cutting shines. 
	Ga. Vocab.</hi></p></note> for William's benefit.</p>

NOTE that the <editorialDecl> should include an appropriate reference:

	<p>All footnotes are inserted at the point of reference within paragraphs.</p>

	<p>All footnotes are moved to the end of a paragraph in which the reference occurs.</p>

<argument>
FROM: Octavia V. Rogers Albert (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-1889?
The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, Original and Life Like, As They Appeared
in Their Old Plantation and City Slave Life; Together with Pen-Pictures of the Peculiar Institution,
with Sights and Insights into Their New Relations as Freedmen, Freemen, and Citizens. New York: Hunt
& Eaton, 1890.
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<argument>
	<p>Causes of immorality among colored people—Charlotte Brooks—She is sold South—Sunday 
	work.</p>
</argument>

	<div2 type="chapter">
		<pb id="albert14" n="14"/>
		<head>CHAPTER III.<lb/>AUNT CHARLOTTE'S FRIENDS.</head>
		<argument>
			<p>Death of Aunt Charlotte's children—Jane Lee's master leaves
			the neighborhood—Nellie Johnson tries to escape to her
			old Virginia home.</p>
		</argument>
		<p> ... </p>
	</div2>

<opener>
FROM: Baron Christoph von Graffenried, 1661-1743, Vincent H. Todd (Vincent Hollis), 1879-, edited by,
and Julius Goebel, 1857-1931, edited by Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern.
Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of
Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois.
Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing, 1920.
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	<opener>
		<dateline>July 21st, 1714.</dateline>
		<salute>To the L'ds Comm'rs of Trade. </salute>
		<salute> My Lords:</salute>
	</opener>
	<p>Since my last of the 9th of March, (whereof the enclosed is a Duplicate) 
	I have had the hon'r to receive y'r Lo'ps of the 6th of April . . .</p>

<epigraph>
FROM: J. Lansing Burrows (John Lansing), 1814-1893
Shiloh. A Sermon.
[S.l.: s.n., between 1861 and 1865].
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	<head>A SERMON.</head>
	<epigraph>
	  <q>
	     <p>&ldquo;The Lord appeared again; in Shiloh.&rdquo;<bibl>—SAM. III. 21.</bibl></p>
	  </q>
	</epigraph>

FROM: Sidney Lanier, 1842-1881
Poems of Sidney Lanier, Edited by his Wife.
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1884.
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	<epigraph>
          <lg type="stanza">
            <l>- &ldquo;Go, trembling song,</l>
            <l>And stay not long; oh stay not long:</l>
            <l>Thou'rt only a gray and sober dove,</l>
            <l>But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love.&rdquo;</l>
          </lg>
        </epigraph>

<closer>
FROM: Confederate States of America. Surgeon-General's Office
Circular No. 17.
[Richmond: Surgeon General's Office, 1864].
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	<closer>
		<signed>SURG. S. H. STOUT,<lb/>
		<hi rend="italics">Med. Dir.</hi>
		</signed>
		<dateline> Macon, Ga.</dateline>	
		<signed>S. P. MOORE,<lb/>
		<hi rend="italics">Surgeon General C. S. A. </hi>
		</signed>
	</closer>

FROM: Kimberly Family
Personal Correspondence, 1862-1864.
Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection
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	<closer>
		<salute>With much love my dear sister<lb/>
		I am ever<lb/>
		Your affectionate brother</salute>
		<signed>John Sehon.</signed>
	</closer>

<trailer>
FROM: Sidney Lanier, 1842-1881
Poems of Sidney Lanier, Edited by his Wife.
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1884.
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	<trailer>(End of Chapter V.)</trailer>

FROM: Marion Harland, 1830-1922
Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life.
New York; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910.
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			</div2>
        	    <trailer>THE END</trailer>
	      	</div1>
    	     </back>
  	   </text>
	</TEI.2>

<add>
FROM: Excerpts from the Diary of William S. Mullins, November 23 through 25, 1840
Mullins, William Sidney, 1824-1878
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	The recitation was much better than I expected, and showed that the class had 
	a much <add rend="sup" hand="WSM">more</add> thorough knowledge with Logic than 
	I had supposed.

<del>
FROM: Class Composition of J. Horace Lacy, [January 1851]1
Lacy, James Horace, 1834-1852
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	But it is well authenticated by the observation of every one, that
	<del rend="overstrike" hand="JHL">their manner</del> <add rend="sup" hand="JHL">this way—i.e. 
	the above</add> of writing influences the style of compos. of those who practise it considerably, 
	when they grow up to years of manhood; for their productions, <del hand="JHL" rend="overstrike">instead</del> 
	far from being terse, argumentative, convincing, are without head or tail & are generally an 
	incongruous mass mixed up in the most disgusting manner, without divisions or heads & in short 
	without a subject (so to speak).

<unclear>
FROM: Kimberly Family
Personal Correspondence, 1862-1864.
Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection
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	<p> [. . .]But I still hope for & trust in God and I believe he will animate our brave defenders 
	with a superhuman power and we will yet drive from our soil the hated invaders 
	whose tread <unclear reason="ink blot"></unclear> profanation, but this is an hour to try men's souls—Fort 
	Donelson has been taken by the enemy.  Frank was there and covered himself with honor but his bravery 
	cost him a wound; he was wounded in the leg slightly—a flesh wound only, you must not be uneasy
	.  [. .] </p>

FROM: Thomas Carpenter Master of the Academy, Barking, Essex
The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to
Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling
and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use
of Schools and Private Tuition. Charleston, S.C.: McCarter & Dawson, 1861, [c1835].
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	<note><p>Note.—<hi rend="italics">a</hi> is used before <hi rend="italics">m, v; ab</hi> before 
	<hi rend="italics">d, h, j, <unclear reason="foxed"></unclear>, n, r, s; abs</hi> before <hi rend="italics">c, t.</hi> 
	These prepositions denote the point where motion begins, and are opposed to <hi rend="italics">ad</hi> 
	which denotes where it must end.</p>
	</note>

<gap>
FROM: No Author
Slavery Illustrated, in the Histories of Zangara and Maquama, Two Negroes Stolen From Africa and Sold
Into Slavery. Related by Themselves.
Manchester: Wm. Irwin, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849.
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	<p>In the Press, People's Edition of SEWELL'S HISTORY of the SOCIETY of FR<gap reason="cut off" extent="unknown"/> 
	Being the Second Vol. of Wm. Irwin's &ldquo;People's Editions of the W<gap reason="cut off" extent="unknown"/> 
	Early Friends,&rdquo; uniform in size with his Cheap Edition of &ldquo;Barclay's Apo<gap reason="cut off" extent="unknown"/> 
	which will shortly be issued, and form the first vol. of the Series. The<gap reason="cut off" extent="unknown"/> 
	is offered to Subscribers only at the following very low prices:—100 <gap reason="cut off" extent="unknown"/> 
	£18; 20 copies, £4; Single Copies, 4s. 6d.</p>