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This is a page I use to track scan requests. If you would like to make a request, add the item which you wish to have scanned in the “Pending” section. I will then try to obtain a copy of the item and scan it; as I do so, I will add notes under each item. Once I have finished scanning the item and notifying you, I will move the scan under the “Finished” section. If you have any questions about a specific item, leave them in a note under your request.

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  • Songs of a Spanish Lover (1924) - privately printed under the name Henry Cecil (actually by David H. Keller) SnowyCinema (talk) 03:45, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Loose Ladies (1929) by Viña Delmar. Has an existing scan, but the first few pages have some really bad smudges that make those pages problematic. SnowyCinema (talk) 23:47, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Also requesting Georgia Douglas Johnson's An Autumn Love Cycle, which I cannot find on neither HathiTrust nor the Internet Archive. Also—this is probably unnecessary and incredibly hard to get—but if you have time I wonder if you could get the 1859 bound first volume of The Anglo-African Magazine. The 1968 version published by Arno Press and the New York Times omits the cover and TOC pages for each issue, and IIRC has (a) page(s) where words are missing and need to be reconstructed. Also, it would be cool to transcribe the original edition. Thanks, prospectprospekt (talk) 01:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
    • prospectprospekt: I have ordered it. As for The Sound and the Fury, a copy was uploaded, but it’s of a reprint edition. Are you still interested in the 1929 edition? Is there any problem with this copy of The Anglo-African Magazine? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:10, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
      • There's actually no problem with the copy on HathiTrust; I misspoke when I said that the bound volume is missing pages because the cover and table of contents pages were apparently intentionally left out of it. I assumed otherwise when looking at the bound second volume. For The Sound and The Fury, I'm still interested in the first edition, but it's fine if you think that finding such would be unnecessary given the reprint already avaliable. prospectprospekt (talk) 22:56, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
        • prospectprospekt: If it was a photofacsimile reprint, I wouldn’t bother, but there is definitely different pagination. I’ll get around to it soon (although I probably won’t be able to go in for scanning for at least a week). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:19, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
    • prospectprospekt: Here you go: Index:An Autumn Love Cycle.djvu. And the two images: File:AnAutumnLoveCycle-fp.tif and File:AnAutumnLoveCycle-title.tif. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:19, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Requesting for 2025 the first edition of William Faulkner's 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury. Hathitrust only has a 1931 editon and all the copies on the Internet Archive are either later editions or post-1956 reprints. Prospectprospekt (talk) 21:19, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
    • Prospectprospekt: Sorry for the late response, but this was true when you sent this message (not just now). Your request is too late; my ILL office has stopped sending requests for winter break the week before last. I’ll be able to put in a request January 6, but I might not be able to get a scan until sometime after that. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:25, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
    • Prospectprospekt: I have uploaded the 1929 edition here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:54, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
  • @TE(æ)A,ea.: Requesting Three Little Folks: Verses for Children (1896), a poetry collection by Clarence Hawkes. If possible, could it be uploaded in .djvu form because a user who I'll ask to transcribe this prefers it? If not, I'll convert it. Thanks. SnowyCinema (talk) 14:51, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
    • SnowyCinema: I’ve sent for it. I probably won’t get any response until January at the earliest, though. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:09, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @TE(æ)A,ea.: Did this ever come in by the way? SnowyCinema (talk) 15:38, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
    • SnowyCinema: No, it hasn’t; I’ll ask after it, but of course the office is closed to-day for LJK Day. A few of the other books have come in (The Chimes, The Sound and the Fury, An Autumn Love Cycle, Old-New Land), so books are being shipped. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:02, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
    • SnowyCinema: I talked it over with my contact. The two universities which own a copy have it in special collections off-site storage, and so will not be shipping it. I might be able to get a scan of some pages, but it is unlikely that I will be able to obtain a scan of the entire book. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:54, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
          • @TE(æ)A,ea.: Ahhhhhhh, really? Well, I do happen to remember this book, and also a specific one by Margaret Warner Morley, were extremely expensive to buy online. A whopping $250!!! I wonder if that's related to this being in special collections? SnowyCinema (talk) 23:04, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Requesting George Kin Leung's 1926 translation of The True Story of Ah Q, published in Shanghai by The Commercial Press. It would have to be uploaded locally since Leung died in 1977, making it still copyrighted in China. Prospectprospekt (talk) 19:59, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
  • The IA scans of Orlando Furioso are missing volume 4, but Hathi has it. Could you please provide a PDF from the scan and upload it locally; I intend to ask @Xover to convert it to DjVu format to match the rest of the set. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:23, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: I’ve been trying to see if I can get a direct download from HathiTrust through ILL; it hasn’t worked so far, but I think that that was because of a miscommunication. I’ve been watching your progress on the other volumes; I will have volume 4 by the time you get to it, even if I have to do it manually. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:58, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: Here you go: File:Orlando Furioso (Rose) v4 1825.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
  • For EncycloPetey: Beleg Tâl has found a 1917 scan of A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 to save a Pulitzer work that is up for deletion. Once the scan is available, I will set up an Index page and drop it into the Monthly Challenge for August, assuming it is ready by early next month. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:20, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: Here you go: File:History of the Civil War (Rhodes).pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:11, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
      • Thnks. I've moved the file to File:History of the Civil War (Rhodes 1917).pdf because there was a revised edition published shortly after it earned the Pulitzer. The scan looks good except that it's missing five maps (and their blank backsides) from the sequence, and five of the scanned maps were scanned with the maps helpfully folded up. I could not find another scan of the 1917 edition that had these maps. What are the possibilities for acquiring a 1917 copy and scanning the maps only? --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:49, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
        • EncycloPetey: I should be able to scan in all of the maps in high quality fairly soon. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:56, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
        • EncycloPetey: Sorry, the copy I had access to had some of the map pieces ripped off in awkward angles. I have ordered a different copy, and hopefully it won’t be so problematic. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:10, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
        • EncycloPetey: I’ve had trouble getting in another copy, so I’ve uploaded the images I was able to get into the (not created) Category:History of the Civil War images. Some of them are split into two images. Some of the images are incomplete, generally in small places along the edges of the folds. There are two other images, “Rhodes-Sherman” and “Rhodes-Vburg-2,” which are too large to upload locally. I can upload them to a temporary site at your convenience. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 12:31, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
        • EncycloPetey: I’ve uploaded three more maps into the category. The remaining maps are >100 MB, and so I need to upload to Internet Archive (they’ll show up here). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:02, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
  • For EncycloPetey: the final two Pulitzer-winning plays we don't have (that are PD): Craig's Wife: [1] & In Abraham's Bosom [2] These are both scans on Hathi, and so will hopefully require little processing. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:23, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: Here you go: File:Craig's Wife.pdf and File:The Field God and In Abraham's Bosom.pdf. You said that these are the last, but some of the post-1928 plays may be in the public domain. For example, I am fairly sure that Alison’s House (the 1931 awardee) is in the public domain. Do you want me to look into these more modern plays? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:58, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
      • If there are others in public domain as a result of non-renewal, they would also be welcome. I have not checked beyond Street Scene, except for a few titles. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:45, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
        • EncycloPetey: 1929: Street Scene (R168143); 1930: The Green Pastures (R187701); 1931: Alison’s House (no renewal?); 1932: Of Thee I Sing (R235835); 1933: Both Your Houses (R256436); 1934: Men in White (no renewal?); 1935: The Old Maid (R296851); 1936: Idiot’s Delight (R309203); 1937: You Can’t Take It with You (R331082); 1938: Our Town (R356935); 1939: Abe Lincoln in Illinois (R388556); 1940: The Time of Your Life (R400374); 1941: There Shall Be No Night (no renewal?); 1942—no award; 1943: The Skin of Our Teeth (R480231); 1944—no award; 1945: Harvey (R517293); 1946: State of the Union (R566771); 1947—no award; 1948: A Streetcar Named Desire (R594334); 1949: Death of a Salesman (R632653); 1950: South Pacific (not renewed?); 1951—no award; 1952: The Shrike (RE0000054716); 1953: Picnic (RE0000086265); 1954: The Teahouse of the August Moon (RE0000116736); 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (RE0000151470); 1956: The Diary of Anne Frank (RE0000205538); 1957: Long Day’s Journey into Night (RE0000168797, but the records are messy); 1958: Look Homeward, Angel (RE0000298946); 1959: J.B. (RE0000263865); 1960: Fiorello! (RE0000405455); 1961: All the Way Home (RE0000414977); 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (RE0000512115). This list means that Alison’s House (1931), Men in White (1934), There Shall Be No Night (1941), Harvey (1945), and South Pacific (1950) may not have been renewed. I can request these volumes, but I would like you to check over them to make sure a renewal didn’t slip through in unnoticed. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:09, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
          • I've now found renewals for all the remaining plays: Alison’s House (1930) R205100; Men in White (1933) R268410; South Pacific, 2nd ed. text only (1949) R632092 (music with separate renewals for each song); There Shall Be No Night (1943, rev. acting ed.) R495134. So, there might be an earlier edition of There Shall Be No Night that was not renewed, but given the radio and movie rights that were purchased, and the timing at the start of WWII, there also may not be. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:19, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
  • For EncycloPetey (for the MC) Could you please provide a scan file from Hathi? This is the 1920 first volume of short stories from the O. Henry Award series. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:21, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
  • For SnowyCinema: Magnolia (1923), a play by Author:Booth Tarkington—I've been trying to find any script of this play for years. If you can find anything of that sort, I'm indebted to you. It's something I really want access to. SnowyCinema (talk) 00:05, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
    • SnowyCinema: Sorry for not responding sooner. It seems it was published informally by Princeton around the time of its initial run; see here, Folder 09, for (likely final) text. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 12:21, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
  • For SnowyCinema: Upstairs, Downstairs (original 1928 version) by Edith Bishop Sherman. All current scans are locked because they're reprints from well after 1928. SnowyCinema (talk) 17:42, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
    • SnowyCinema: Ordered. One question: after asking for the missing pages from The Stephenson Family, I got a better scan of the missing pages. Do you want them? (By the way, like the name change.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:18, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! But, I think I'm good on that work. SnowyCinema (talk) 22:36, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Beautiful! Thank you! SnowyCinema (talk) 19:17, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
  • For Arcorann: Gold Ahead (1937 or 1940 ed.) (external scan)
    • Arcorann: Two comments: (1) If you’d like to request a work from me, I have set up this page for requests (to avoid having to search through all of my user talk page). (2) That HathiTrust item is available for me; if the edition is good for you, do you want me to just download it? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:16, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
  • For SnowyCinema: "Joyous Things" (1925) by Stuart Pratt Sherman. Appears to be an individual essay that was published alone. SnowyCinema (talk) 15:22, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
  • For SnowyCinema: The Rhymes of Goochy Goggles and His Pollywog Named "Woogles" (1926) by Andrew Findlay Underhill
@TE(æ)A,ea.: Is this one still on its way? SnowyCinema (talk) 16:04, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
  • SnowyCinema: It just arrived the other day. I will likely not be able to scan it until the 20th or 21st, however. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:15, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
  • For IP (203.206.17.177) (from RT): A Summary of the Evidences of Christianity, by J. Fawcett.
    • Microfilm reel ordered and arrived. Awaiting scan.
  • For Chrisguise: Batrachomuomachia, trans. by H. Price.
    • Scan delivered electronically with page doubling. PDF downloaded, needs manual repair.
@TE(æ)A,ea.: I have the means to manipulate images and PDF's and convert to DJVU, so if you can get the images to me I can do the rest, if it helps (as per George Chapman's Crowne of all Homers Workes) Chrisguise (talk) 04:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Works otherwise completed, but awaiting January 1 for upload (dir. j25-Tup)

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  • Per a request noted at Wikisource talk:Requested texts/1929: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, first published in 1929, for the coming January. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:52, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
  • I have scanned a beautiful first edition of John Steinbeck's "Cup of Gold". It needs to be shuffled and "evens upped" and ocr'd but it is scanned. It has the original cover still and the gutters are great!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 17:28, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Finished

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(Well the lines seemed to be pretty obvious, but still would probably be an interesting addition to Commons anyway...) SnowyCinema (talk) 04:51, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
  • SnowyCinema: Ordered. The office is open now, so things should proceed smoothly; your other requests have been filed. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:23, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
  • For SnowyCinema: Weeds (1923) by Edith Summers Kelley. Certain scans of later versions exist on Google Books but they're all under copyright. Can you find the original 1923 edition? SnowyCinema (talk) 14:59, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
    • SnowyCinema: Order filed. The office is closed until mid-January, however, so it will not be ordered until then. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:37, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
    • SnowyCinema: The book has been shipped, it should arrive soon. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:23, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
    • SnowyCinema: The book has arrived; I hope to scan it to-morrow. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
      • @TE(æ)A,ea.: Hey, sorry, I was on a Wikibreak so I didn't see these. Did you happen to get "Joyous Things" and Weeds in from that office? I'd like to start working on those if possible. Thanks. (And "to-morrow"—I swear, I thought I was the only one who did this by mistake. Years of being part of this community must do that to us all. That made my day!) SnowyCinema (talk) 03:08, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
        • SnowyCinema: I’ve been so corrupted by Wikisource that I use “to-day” and “to-morrow” in my text messages, even. As a matter of fact, Weeds and “Joyous Things” did come in; I was going to wait until you came back to upload them. For Weeds, I have two questions. First, the edition I scanned in is a facsimile reprint, so the actual non-text matter is copyright. I scanned in a notice at the end of the book that states (in factual terms) the bibliographical information of the book. Despite the very factual nature of that note, the copyright notice specifically identifies that note as being copyrighted. I’ll leave the decision on that to you. Second, the introduction to the new edition contains an exact reprint of a contemporaneous (1923) newspaper article about the author. I scanned that in as well, so if you’d like that uploaded, I’ll redact the actual text of the introduction and upload a PDF with just the text of the newspaper article. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 04:18, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
@TE(æ)A,ea.: Was that the only version available to be scanned of this particular novel? I found a few versions online that also were the same—modern reprints. I was hoping that maybe you'd be able to get access to an original version. But this makes me wonder what the actual contents of the note are. Is it possible for you to upload the contents of the current scan/note to the Internet Archive, or email some of it to me? I'd like to look it over.
What I'm fearing is that maybe the publication situation behind the novel is complicated (which maybe the note details). But a reference to this novel in a 1924 work would at least indicate that it was available to critics at the time... What do you think? Were you able to find the 1923 HARCOURT BRACE AND COMPANY version transcribed by Gutenberg? SnowyCinema (talk) 22:30, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
  • SnowyCinema: While it is a modern reprint, it is a facsimile reprint (from the original types), so the page numbering will be the same. There is no complicated publication history; that is why I thought that the copyright was unnecessary. This is the note: “Textual Note: The text of Weeds published here is an exact photo-offset reprint of the first printing (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1923). The London publication by Cape was a reprint from the American plates. No emendations have been made in this text. M. J. B.” TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:50, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
@TE(æ)A,ea.: Ah, thanks for providing that! If the facsimile matter is all that's in the scan that should be fine. I can't wait to see it. SnowyCinema (talk) 22:55, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
@TE(æ)A,ea.: Thank you, and no worries. I have been really busy myself. But, everything else is good with this work, and once the pages are repaired the work is otherwise proofread, and ready to be processed for Wikisource publication. SnowyCinema (talk) 23:13, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Done SnowyCinema (talk) 06:24, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
  • For SnowyCinema: The Road to Monterey (1925), by George W. Ogden. There are missing pages in the only available scan online, so could you please scan pages 18 and 19 and put them in a PDF? Thanks. SnowyCinema (talk) 20:43, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
    • SnowyCinema: Pages ordered. By the way, in relation to one of your works, I do not remember which one, I saw that one of the author’s works entered the public domain next year. If you have books of that nature that you want scanned, you can ask now and I will scan them, save them on my computer, and then upload them at the beginning of the year. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:00, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
  • For SnowyCinema: Little Elephant Visits the Farm (1941) by Heluiz Chandler Washburne. Books in this series have a lot of colorful images but are ~ 50 pages long or so. SnowyCinema (talk) 01:37, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
  • For SnowyCinema: Keeping the Peace, by Gouverneur Morris.
@TE(æ)A,ea.: Did you say in an edit summary that this has been scanned? If it has, could you please upload it for me? I can have it done within only hours. Thanks. SnowyCinema (talk) 21:43, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
@TE(æ)A,ea.: Sorry, I didn't see that last comment immediately. But Done; the temp files have been deleted. SnowyCinema (talk) 16:17, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
  • For EncycloPetey: "Sophocles' King Oedipus: a version for the modern stage", transl. by William Butler Yeats (1928) will enter PD on 1 Jan 2024, and is only a few pages
    • EncycloPetey: I should be able to pick this one up Monday. Once I get it scanned, I’ll put in the list below, and upload it (and notify you) on January 1. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:00, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
    • My library said that they had it, but if they do, they didn’t let me see it. I did order it from another library, and have now scanned it. (I hope you enjoy using the score extension.) I’ll add you to the to-upload list below. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:16, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: Now uploaded: PDF. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
    • Fully proofread now. Thanks.
  • For EncycloPetey: Icebound (1923), another Pulitzer-winning play. As before, I'm not able to pull a PDF myself, but Hathi has a copy. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:27, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: Here you go: File:Icebound.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:22, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
      • Thanks! --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:02, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
        • I just noticed you grabbed the 1932 printing instead of the 1923 that I pointed to. Was there a problem with the 1923 edition? I don't see substantive differences between the two, but would really prefer the 1923 because it makes the date less troublesome (I won't have to coordinate two different dates: the publication year and the printing year). --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
          • EncycloPetey: I don’t know why the 1932 came up instead of the 1923—especially so since the 1932 copy had an overscan, while the 1923 doesn’t. In any case, it’s been fixed. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:49, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
            • Icebound (1923) will be finished today or tomorrow. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
  • For EncycloPetey: They Knew What They Wanted (1925), Pulitzer-winning play by Sidney Coe Howard. Hathi copy, with two photographs from the staging of the play. I'm starting to scan-back all the Pulitzer-winning dramas, but very few are available through IA. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:52, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: So, what exactly do you want? It’s on HathiTrust, right? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:00, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
      • Yes, I found a copy there, but I am unable to move a copy to Commons. I'm unable to grab the PDF from Hathi. If you can make the transfer, that should be all I need help with. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:03, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
        • EncycloPetey: Sorry for the long wait, I’ve been busy the past few weeks. Here you go: File:They Knew What They Wanted.pdf. Also, are you still interested in The Fun of It? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:21, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
          • Since we can't have the images, I don't think it's worth the effort. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:25, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
            • EncycloPetey: I do have the images for The Fun of It, I just haven’t uploaded them because they are a lot and, if the book wasn’t going to be proofread, I wasn’t going to bother uploaded them. If you do want to proofread it, then I will upload the images. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:22, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
              • Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought that you couldn't upload them for copyright reasons. If there is no such issue, then yes, please proceed, but do not consider it high priority. I will tackle the book, but not right away. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:02, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
                • EncycloPetey: I was wondering where you got that idea, when I looked at my message and saw that I said cannot (for some reason). In any case, the images are in Category:The Fun of It images (not created), which is local. Feel free to extract and color-correct the images and re-upload them at Commons at your leisure. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 12:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
                  • They Knew What They Wanted is fully proofread. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
  • For EncycloPetey (for the MC): The Fun of It (1932) by Amelia Earhart (no renewal) --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:11, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
  • @TE(æ)A,ea.: For SnowyCinema: * My Life Is an Open Book by Golman Buford Hancock, date of publication unknown. This site referred to it: https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~haddockfamily/genealogy/hancocknotes.htm SnowyCinema (talk) 10:08, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
@TE(æ)A,ea.: Thanks, that's a very useful find for the person who requested it to me! Unfortunately, nothing seems to give a definite self-publication date, but if it was made before 1989 its public-domain status is about certain (if this counts as publication). The compiler (1927–2017): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183355481/edith-imogene-may SnowyCinema (talk) 00:27, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
@TE(æ)A,ea.: We think this was published in the 1960s or the 1970s. Do you agree? SnowyCinema (talk) 00:31, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
Sorry for so many comments but it's been confirmed, 1978 is the absolute latest it could've been written: https://books.google.com/books?id=L_uMF5pKAhMC&q=%22my+life+is+an+open+book%22+hancock&dq=%22my+life+is+an+open+book%22+hancock&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja_9KD3vOJAxUEg4kEHVYeCUkQ6AF6BAgMEAI SnowyCinema (talk) 00:46, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
  • SnowyCinema: I was going to say that, even if it was later, I don’t think that it would have been anywhere close to the very late 1980s/1990s (and thus copyrighted). Based on that note, it was probably published sometime between 1976 and 1978. Based on the statement in May’s preface, this would count as publication. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:49, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
@TE(æ)A,ea.: Did you personally scan it or find it online? SnowyCinema (talk) 01:13, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
  • SnowyCinema: I just found it randomly, otherwise I would have uploaded the file locally. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 04:54, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
  • Requesting Poems of Peace, Including the Lyrical-dramatic Poem Eolaus by James Allen for an IP-user as part of the MC, who has been working through all of James Allen's texts, and has been unable to find a scan on Internet Archive or HathiTrust (neither have I). I do not have any more information about the text than this, but if you are able to source a copy, that would be great. Thanks, TeysaKarlov (talk) 00:54, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
    • TeysaKarlov: Is there some problem with the copy on Google Books, or do you just want me to download the scan? I can download it without restrictions. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:44, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
  • @TE(æ)A,ea.: Her Great Moment (1921), a novel by Edwin Balmer with no online scans. SnowyCinema (talk) 04:23, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for finding that. Then never mind. SnowyCinema (talk) 03:47, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
  • For EncycloPetey: The Romance of the Rose, by Guillaume de Lorris.
  • For EncycloPetey (to prep for 2025): There is a 1929 London publication of Patrick Hamilton's play Rope, that would be my work to power through on Jan 1, 2025. I found a 1930 publication, but the Library of Congress lists a London edition published in 1929 [4] which would allow us to upload a copy locally in 2025. Patrick Hamilton was a UK writer, who died 1962, and this play was the basis for the Hitchcock film of the same name. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:53, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: It’s been ordered, so it should be here at some time soon. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:08, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: The first one that came through was a modern edition, so it had to be sent back. Another one has arrived, though, and while it’s in poor condition it is the right edition. I’ll scan it sometime this month (not that I’m in any hurry given the copyright date). By the way, it was actually published in New York in 1929, so the U.S. would be the country of origin and it can be hosted on Commons. Unfortunately, the copyright was renewed, so I can’t upload it early. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:18, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: Scanned (a while ago, actually, not that it matters). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:58, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
    • EncycloPetey: Here you go: File:Rope.pdf. The cover is available here (locally, scanned in high quality for later extraction): File:Rope-cover.tif. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:35, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
      • Done Text fully proofread. Thanks! --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:23, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Music scores

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Is this one possible to make out? It also appears several times in the film around 2:26 and a bit after, so if that image isn't good enough, maybe another one will give more clarity. SnowyCinema (talk) 21:35, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
  • SnowyCinema: I wouldn’t transcribe it, because it’s not really relevant. Just like the bottles in the back at 1:44, which you didn’t transcribe, the actual sheet music isn’t related to what’s being played. The two pieces from When the Cat’s Away at least resembled real music, although they were still somewhat caricatures, but the music here is just abstracted as the concept of sheet music. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:21, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Syntax and other web help

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  • Can you put the right words in "pages" on Index:Cup of Gold-1929.djvu? Colophon, Eratta, Huskerdu and such? I have been slapping roman numbers on them (even when they don't have them) because any understanding I ever had of this has deteriorated a lot!, if any understanding ever. Thank you!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 10:34, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
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