Willie's suggestion is best - then put the original letters in archival quality plastic sleeves - they also make 5x7 envelope sized double sleeves. You can read them through the plastic if you need to double check the scan without handling the originals Jane --- On Mon, 10/13/08, William Sinclair <sensiblegrandad@googlemail.com> wrote: > From: William Sinclair <sensiblegrandad@googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] help needed > To: orkney@rootsweb.com > Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 4:58 PM > Is it possible for you to scan the letters and save them on > your > computer, that would allow you to work on them without > doing them any > more damage. > > Willie Sinclair > > 2008/10/13 Betsy VanAuker <mvanauker@hughes.net>: > > I have just received a box full of letters written > from about 1900 to 1930. > > Some are very brittle and turning brown. Many are > folded in their original > > envelopes. What is the best way for me to preserve > them? > > > > I would like to transcribe the letters and share them > with others who might > > be interested. But I do not know what is the best way > to share them. The > > letters include every day happenings: weddings > attended, babies being born, > > soldiers being sent away, Christmas presents and the > like. The majority of > > the letters were written by Jemima Heddle (b.1846), > daughter of Edward > > Ellicott Heddle and Frances Sutherland, to my > grandmother Jane Hughes > > Heddle, her niece. Other letters were written by other > family members. Do > > you think anyone would be interested in their > contents? > > > > Also I received the funeral notice for Jemima Heddle > from her sister Jean > > (Jane?), which included the name of the cemetery where > she is buried. I > > think that other members of the cemetery might be > buries there. How can I > > find out about who is buried in a cemetery in > Edinburgh? > > > > It may take me a long time to transcribe the letters > from Jemima Heddle > > because her writing is so stylized I can barely read > it. > > > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > > > Margaret VanAuker > > mvanauker@hughes.net > > > > > > > > ------------------ > > List Archives, information on contacting list > administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found > at: > > > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list > administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found > at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message