Hi there, my name is John Jefferson loony. I am the editor of the papers of Thomas Jefferson at monticello. We are here today to talk about jefferson and his correspondents. My moderator will be my esteemed colleague who will handle the questions for us. I will turn it over to her. Thanks, jeff. Can you start by telling us what is your role in working with jeffersons correspondents . Im in charge of a project to produce a total of 24 volumes between 1809 in 1826. I work with a total of 10 people to do that. Our job is to take jeffersons letters and papers and produce an authoritative addition for edition for those years that will enable future scholars to rely on that and not have to go back to the originals. So then, what exactly do you do as a documentary editor . One of the most important things is to make it clear what we arent. You hear of a documentary editor and you think either that you are creating film documentaries, and we have in fact have people apply for jobs were baffled
On jefferson between 1809 to 1826. I work with a total of ten people to do that. Our job is to take jeffersons letters and papers and produce an authoritative edition for those years that will enable future scholars to rely on that and not have to go back to the originals. So then, what exactly do you do as a documentary editor . One of the most important things is to make it clear what we are not. You hear of a documentary editor and you think either that you are creating film documentaries, and we have in fact have people apply for jobs who were baffled at first because the application was all about how they could splice film, and that was not what we were after. We are also not editors like in a newspaper, would take an who would take an incoming letter to the editor and market through and make all sorts of corrections. Our job is to give as accurate a representation of the materials that we are editing as possible, so as to convey what was on the handwritten page to the reader so t
I am the editor of the papers of Thomas Jefferson at monticello. We are here today to talk about jefferson and his correspondents. My moderator will be my steamed colleague who handled questions for us. I will turn it over to her. Thanks, jeff. Can you start by telling us what is your role in working with jeffersons correspondents . Im in charge of a project to produce a total of 24 volumes between 1809 in 1826. I work with a total of ten people to do that. Our job is to take jeffersons letters and papers and produce and authoritative addition for those years that will enable future scholars to rely on that and not have to go back to the originals. So then, what exactly do you do as a documentary editor . One of the most important things is to make it clear what we arent. You hear of a documentary editor and you think either that you are creating them documentaries, and we have in fact have people apply for jobs were baffled at first because the application was all about how they could
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