n.a document produced using a typewriterBrowne 1953, 215The word document, furthermore, does not mean only manuscripts or typescripts.Berner and Bettis 1970, 275, fn. 1For the purposes of this paper a modern definition of “manuscripts” has been used, which describes them as a “group of papers (manuscript or typescript, originals or copies, of letters, memoranda, diaries, accounts, log books, drafts, etc. including associated printed or near-print materials), usually having a common source and formed by or around an individual, a family, a corporate entity, or devoted to a single theme”; (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, Information Circular No. 2, revised; Aug. 1966).Evans, Harrison, and Thompson 1974, 425MANUSCRIPT. A handwritten or typed document, including a letterpress or carbon copy. A mechanically produced form completed in handwriting or typescript is also considered a manuscript.Rendell 1983, 309For example, we find that in many cases institutions have not noted whether a manuscript is the original corrected and revised version or is a final typescript as sent to a publisher.Taylor 1988, 468The specializations of form and technology become blurred as manuscript, typescript, and letterpress now find their modern expression in a flurry of photocopies, offset printing, and desktop publishing. The concept of an “original” becomes increasingly elusive and could almost disappear.Kaplan 2000, 127An extraordinary window into this meeting survives in the form of its complete and unedited minutes, an unpublished eighty-five page typescript recorded verbatim by a stenographer present at the meeting.MacNeil 2005, 270So, for example, out of the multiple working drafts, author-emended typescripts, and proofs of Joyce’s Ulysses, the editor constructs the “uncorrupted” authorial text, the essential Ulysses.Pearce-Moses 2007, 15Consider the records created today that you will want to acquire for your archives. Familiar formats are being digitally transformed. Correspondence is e-mail. Diaries are now blogs. Typescripts are word processing files. Reports are Web pages.Gunselman 2007, 160, fn. 12The most common errors were typographical. Some of these appeared to have been introduced when typescript finding aids were converted to digital format using optical character recognition (OCR) software, and they had not been caught during earlier proofreading.Poole 2015, 398Graham’s findings also pointed to Duff et al.’s “Finding and Using Archival Resources”: this sample’s most important sources were textual (manuscripts, printed records, and typescripts).Douglas 2016, 34–35The series includes partial drafts of two plays, drafts of several poems, two envelopes containing sealed typescripts of sections of Plath’s journals (Hughes unsealed these in 1998), and an undisclosed number of “Notes (personal) (about SP collection).”
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Typewritten documents are generally classified as manuscripts but are more accurately described as typescripts.
