Haha, that's what I was thinking, except about the publishers! (It's at least their fault as much as the picture-takers, especially the extremely small gap between the content in the margins and the main body of the text.)
Image-cropping is done, though, as is OCR, and manual cleanup is underway. After that, translation should be very quick. I'm trying to go line-by-line with the manual cleanup, 1) since it's much shorter than the correspondence, 2) since we care much more about the details. I may end up taking a few days just for the sake of doing small sessions of higher quality cleanup without my eyes glazing over.
In cropping, I spotted a very exciting-looking paragraph in which Fritz is at Küstrin and SD is having the kids line up, Dad is whaling on them, the governess is intervening, etc., but my poor French couldn't tell if this was from Fritz's mouth or a story Catt heard around camp. It's definitely not in direct discourse, though. I may be able to tell once I get to line-by-line cleanup. If not, the translation will tell us!
Re: Henri de Catt
Image-cropping is done, though, as is OCR, and manual cleanup is underway. After that, translation should be very quick. I'm trying to go line-by-line with the manual cleanup, 1) since it's much shorter than the correspondence, 2) since we care much more about the details. I may end up taking a few days just for the sake of doing small sessions of higher quality cleanup without my eyes glazing over.
In cropping, I spotted a very exciting-looking paragraph in which Fritz is at Küstrin and SD is having the kids line up, Dad is whaling on them, the governess is intervening, etc., but my poor French couldn't tell if this was from Fritz's mouth or a story Catt heard around camp. It's definitely not in direct discourse, though. I may be able to tell once I get to line-by-line cleanup. If not, the translation will tell us!