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It's not a good idea to put too many letters together into a single catalogue item, because it is hard to keep track of what's what and what's where and which is up to what part of which checklist.
By which I mean: the world appears to be completely overly Too Much at the moment, and I thought I could retreat into sorting out some more of ArchivesWiki:HMWF4 — only to find that I'd gotten a few things out of order. It took me about an hour to go through it all and make sure that I have in fact photographed everything that's already in that folder, and that everything also has its own catalogue record. Some are collections of half a dozen or more letters, and so it's not possible to just look at the top one through the plastic sleeve, they all have to come out and be checked.
I can now carry on photographing, cataloguing, and transcribing more letters. That feels like a much calmer and easier thing than hanging out on social media.
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