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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Encoding Guide. Length

Record: LENGTH
Many records will include the document length, generally on the third line, below the author and recipient line. The convention most records will follow is an Arabic number and “p.” for “pages.” All text on this line should be coded as <l>.

<lɰ p.</l>

<lɮ p. with a 12 p. enclosure</l>

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