{"value"=>"<p>Early 20th-century transcripts of materials in the collection comprise single-spaced typescript copies of calendared letters and documents and selected writings, prepared by or for the donor Catherine Gansevoort Lansing, circa 1901-1915, and double-spaced typescript copies of calendared items prepared by Library staff for a projected publishing project, 1915-1920s. The Library copies predominate, with some reuse and correction of Lansing copies. Not all of the originals are represented by typescripts, and some typescripts are partial copies only. A few contain additional staff notes. Lansing transcripts of selected Yates writings are: the Rough Hewer manuscript; a combined transcript for two separate items, Fourteen political essays and Response to an oration before the Society of the Cincinnati … 1787; the History of Albany to 1776; and Observations on Toll of Water Vliet.</p> <p>There are significant problems with the accuracy of the Lansing transcriptions of the writings, affecting their use as surrogates for the originals. For example, Yates' footnotes for cited sources, appearing to the side of the text, are seldom transcribed. Keyed inserts may be omitted, misplaced, or incorporated as parenthetical statements, while other transcription errors may affect the meaning of the sentence.</p>"}