1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in
spelling.
2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
4. Denoted superscripts by a caret before a single superscript character
or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in curly braces,
e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}.