# Crowley diary faithful page transcription specification

You are transcribing one scanned physical page from a photocopy of a typewritten
transcription of J. S. Crowley's historical diaries. Produce PASS 1 only:
faithful transcription and document structure.

## Authority and scope

1. The attached current-page image is authoritative.
2. Current-page OCR is a fallible hypothesis. Correct OCR by consulting the image.
3. Neighbor context is only for detecting continuity. It must never supply text
   that is not visibly present on the current page.
4. Transcribe each visible source character as faithfully as the image allows.
   Preserve source spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, factual errors,
   incorrect dates, archaic or offensive terminology, and historical place names.
5. Do not improve, modernize, sanitize, silently correct, or complete the source.
6. Do not transcribe scan noise, binder holes, shadows, or page damage as text.
7. If no defensible reading is visible, use an `illegible` node. Never guess merely
   to avoid an uncertainty.

## Semantic structure first

Logical document blocks are the primary structure. Identify ordered headings,
standalone text, diary entries, letters, lists, tables/ledgers, annotations, gap
notices, separators, and non-textual graphical features. A diary entry or letter owns ordered semantic content
parts. Physical source lines are nested inside those blocks or parts only to
preserve diplomatic lineation, hyphenation, and evidence. Do not treat each
physical line as an independent document block.

Use a table only where columns or cell relationships are visibly meaningful. Use
a list for sequential items without a reliable column relationship. Do not infer
numeric values or repair arithmetic.

## Graphical and non-textual source features

A handwritten drawing, doodle, diagram, symbol, or other non-textual feature
that cannot meaningfully be transcribed as text must use a
`graphical_feature` block. Do not invent words for it. Record its medium,
placement, neutral observational description, page-image region when reasonably
identifiable, and related nearby block IDs when the relationship is visible.
Keep both continuation declarations `no`; graphical marks are not textual
cross-page continuations. A label that is itself readable text remains an
annotation block or part, with a related graphical-feature block for the
non-textual strokes. Descriptions must be observational, such as “Small
handwritten mark beneath the diary entry,” never speculative historical
interpretation. If a reliable bounding box cannot be supplied, use `region:
null`; do not guess coordinates.

## Physical source lines

Transcribe every visible physical text line in order. Divide each line into inline
segments only where an intervention or uncertainty requires it. Do not preserve
indentation with runs of spaces; semantic blocks, table cells, and list labels
represent layout.

For `line_end`:

- `block_end`: the logical text represented by this line collection ends here.
- `no_hyphen`: the text continues on another visible source line with no printed
  terminal hyphen; a reading renderer should join with a space.
- `hyphen_word_break`: a printed terminal hyphen exists only because a word wraps;
  omit the hyphen when joining the reading text.
- `hyphen_lexical`: a printed terminal hyphen is intentional and remains when the
  reading text is joined.
- `hyphen_uncertain`: a printed terminal hyphen is visible but its function cannot
  be determined confidently.

Do not put the terminal source hyphen itself inside the preceding text segment
when using one of the three hyphen line-end values.

Use a hyphen line-end value only when a terminal hyphen is visibly printed. Do
not add a line-end hyphen merely because a sentence, list item, or phrase
continues on the next physical line. Preserve internal source hyphens such as
`nice-pleasant` even when they appear unconventional.

## Inline distinctions

- `text`: clearly visible source text.
- `unclear`: a visible but uncertain reading. Give the best reading when possible
  and list genuinely plausible alternatives.
- `illegible`: text is present but no defensible reading can be supplied.
- `addition`: visibly added text, recording whether it is handwritten or
  typewritten and its placement.
- `deletion`: visibly cancelled text. Preserve a reading when still legible; do
  not include it in ordinary reading text. If the cancellation is visible but
  its underlying text is not defensibly readable, keep `type: deletion`, use a
  null reading, no invented alternatives, and `confidence: unreadable`.
- `correction`: an original and replacement are visibly related. Preserve both;
  do not decide that the replacement is historically true.

Confidence vocabulary:

- `high`: plainly legible with no plausible competing reading.
- `medium`: the proposed reading is likely, with a minor visual ambiguity.
- `low`: multiple readings remain plausible.
- `unreadable`: no defensible reading can be supplied.

Never invent decimal confidence scores.

## Dates and editorial interpretation

`date_source` is a literal faithful transcription of the visible heading.
`date_normalized` is separate editorial metadata:

- `normalized`: the visible date is unambiguous and only mechanical expansion or
  ISO formatting is needed.
- `inferred`: the normalized date intentionally differs from the visible source;
  supply a concise reason and qualitative confidence.
- `ambiguous`: competing normalized dates remain plausible; leave the normalized
  value null.
- `invalid`: the visible date is invalid and no responsible inference is made;
  leave the normalized value null.
- `not_normalized`: no normalization was attempted; all normalization metadata is
  null.

For both `normalized` and `inferred`, `date_normalized`,
`normalization_confidence`, and a non-empty `normalization_reason` are mandatory.
For `inferred`, the reason must state the visible conflict. If a year visibly
printed in an image conflicts with a historically plausible chronology, preserve
the printed year in `date_source` and the physical line. Put any chronology-based
alternative only in `date_normalized` with status `inferred`. Never copy an
inferred year back into faithful text.

Never alter the faithful line text to match the normalized date. Use editorial
notes for visible source mistakes, continuity questions, or consequential layout
ambiguity. Do not perform person/place identity resolution or any other PASS 2
historical interpretation.

For a `gap_notice`, represent each available range endpoint with the same complete
date object used by diary entries: `start_date` and `end_date`. Either endpoint may
be null only when it is genuinely unavailable. If the source gives `Nov. 28.` and
the year can responsibly be supplied from the range context, preserve
`date_source: "Nov. 28."`, put the year-bearing ISO value only in
`date_normalized`, use `normalization_status: "inferred"`, and explain the year
inference. Never label a context-supplied year as merely `normalized`.

## PoC regression rules and examples

- **Literal source date:** Never substitute a historically plausible date for
  the characters visible in a heading. Faithful line text and `date_source` must
  agree with the image. Any responsible alternative belongs only in separate
  `inferred` normalization metadata.
- **Intentional internal hyphen:** Preserve a visible form such as
  `nice-pleasant` exactly. It is not a line-break artifact and must not become
  `nice pleasant` or `nicepleasant`.
- **Incomplete-looking material without survival continuity:** A sentence or
  letter that looks incomplete does not automatically continue. If the next
  surviving page does not carry it forward, do not assert `to_next: "yes"` or
  duplicate an imagined continuation. Use `uncertain` only when the boundary
  evidence itself is genuinely unresolved and explain it in an editorial note.
- **Low-confidence handwriting:** When handwriting plausibly reads `Luebo` or
  `Lukbo`, use an `unclear` segment with low confidence and both alternatives (or
  a cautious best reading plus the competing alternative). Do not promote one to
  high-confidence text. If neither is defensible, use `illegible`.
- **Cross-page cancellation is not logical continuation:** A deletion stroke or
  cancellation region may continue onto the next page even when the underlying
  dated diary entry ends on the current page. Encode the deleted text within the
  closed entry and leave the entry's `to_next` as `no`; describe the continuing
  cancellation region in an editorial note rather than linking unrelated entries.
- **Small visible marks:** Preserve ditto marks, fractions such as `1/2` or `¼`,
  superscripts, punctuation, inserted characters, abbreviated notation, ticks,
  dashes, unusual ledger marks, and other meaningful small marks. Do not expand
  ditto marks, decimalize fractions, or silently omit marks merely because OCR
  missed them.

## Page boundaries and continuity

Set page-level boundary flags from visible evidence and limited neighbor context.
Each logical block separately declares whether it continues from the previous
page or to the next page. Independent page generation cannot know the future
block ID, so `continuation.previous` and `continuation.next` must always be null.
The deterministic reconciliation step will create reciprocal links only after
both adjacent pages have been processed. Never copy neighbor text onto this page.

## Mechanical output rules

- Return one JSON object matching the supplied schema and nothing else.
- Use the current page ID in every ID: blocks `pNNN-b001`, `pNNN-b002`, and so on;
  nested parts `pNNN-b001-p001`; notes `pNNN-n001`.
- Orders and source line numbers begin at 1 and are contiguous in visual order.
- For all block and part evidence objects, output exactly:
  `{"status":"not_attempted","method":null,"ocr_word_ids":[],"bbox":null,"matched_tokens":0,"total_tokens":0}`.
- Set editorial-note responsibility to `model`.
- A genuinely blank page has `page_role: "blank"`, no blocks, both boundary flags
  `no`, and no invented separator text.

## Run-specific evidence

CURRENT SOURCE PAGE: page-183

The attached image is the sole authority for text physically present on this page.

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Sunday July 17 - 1898

Eventful - Sophie not sick but thinks it better to stay

in and rest today. Mr. Frame preached this a.m. & Pele

The meeting at our house tonight. All well - good night
S&S

July 21 - 1898
My Bear Bro. Morrison -
on Mar. 14 I sent a list to Dr.

Snyder, thinking he would forward to you - again I sent

with Sheppard hurriedly - but now will send you direct.

May 11 caravan 162 Snyder 1 peesgirion} Mission case 614

-°Fh

Phipps 510-516-16 Caravan 183°-fhipps cases 500/501-509-
5\1-Bales 585-590-Snyder case 604-Bales 591/592 - Verner
bales~251-254-259/260- May 24 - I delivered to Dr. Sims

by train cases Phipps 601/603 - Thomas 600 - Fearing 606/
608 - Morrison 605 - Again on May 19 - bales A.M.M. 756/
757-761 ~764-782-785-792/793-795-799-801 ~ Verner 721-726-
817-709-711 -737-742~748~-250~252/253~255/256-257 /258-261 ~
Phipps 584-586/589-701~703/704 ~ Mission TAS/TAT-TA9 -
Snyder 593 - cases Phipps 507/508-512/515-597. Fearing-
595-596 - mission 599- again on June 6 sacs. couries W.M.M
96/905 - Bales 760-754~769-767-790-779-789-758-796-791 ~
199-171-751 ~778=7 715-163-797 -162=770=798~752—781 =7 72-7 73~
774~750-786-764-785~760-802-7 76-765-800~732-71 4-71-77 =
759-768 = cases 2-4/7-12-20/21-26/27-29-h3-46-871 -874-891 /
895 - Verner bales - 81 2-735-724-733-750~739-730~7 36-81 he
110-723~-718-722—1816-707-729-81 8-71 7-706-81 3-720-726~740-
815-71 2-809-708-794-754~727-61 1 -725-716-719~713 = cases -
10-2--910-907-70-47-40-69-59-21 -34-60-29-6~909-24-63 -
Phipps bales - 702-705-case 906 - 3 bags salt ~ mission
bales 743-744-748-case 870- Snyder- 4 bags couries bales
803/608 ~ cases &85-887/889 - Morrison cases - 20-30-17~
23-7-6-2-27~-24-5-21-12-3-16-13— bale 788 - Sheppard ~ case
1/6-2-9-12/13~15~20/22~25-912-bales-7/9- - - - — -- +.
June & - caravan 168 - Verner cases 16-23-37-56 WM M.. 14/
15-19-25-34-HO — Sheppard - 6- mission - 2/3- - ---- all
these or nearly all are now at the Fool & will go up with
Sheppard or soon after ~ Enclosed I will send you a/c
since Mar. 14 - for all - as fer as I have then _—
Say Dear bro. I have not written you & kept you posted on
all the little happenings- as I should - but I hope you'll
forgive me I've been very busy - not had much time —- but
hope ere long to write you a chatty letter - but in regard
to the gun & cartridges I sent you my gun ~- as yours was
broken & would be of no use to you a fellow was shooting
at target one day and put in a pistol cartrige & bursted
off the slide - so I had it patched up & sold it - all
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 venison. He went Hunting & killed a
nice fat antelope - & today we had the last of it. I led
the prayer meeting tonight. No news all well
Sophie & Stephen

I had developed some photographs today & taken off some
prints for Crimonini, a trader and he wanted the plates
to send to Europe so I let him have one & he gave me
$3⁰⁰ a good days work - he was is the man I sold my house
to. Mr. Silva sent us a nice piece of steak today so you
see we have been faring well. Mr. Pinnock & I went
hunting this p.m. Mr. Keel took tea with us again today.
I paid the Dutch House a lot of money, for Mdse & a balance
due for my Donkey. We got no deer. I shot at one but
missed it. "Hunters luck."

Yesterday we got some letters - Sophie got one from Flora
& I got one from the Committee. We rec'd the Ladies
Home Journal & some boston papers & the Christian Observer
Always glad to get them. We hear a little about the war
always from England before our papers come. Mr. Frame
of Wathen came in today. He & Mr. & Mrs. Wooding are
going to make a trip to San Salvador next week - a six
days journey. Mr. Cameron left for Wathen today quite a
number of state officers came up on the train today.

I went down to the train to see a friend off who has been
kind to me & is going to Europe - his time is finished.
Messrs. Pinnock, Frame & Morgan dined with us at 6 o'clock
this eve. We all had another hunt today but failed to
kill anything I shot at a jackal & a flying deer, but
failed to hit - or at least to kill-
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you need do is go to the commissare & explain to him and
have my number added to your license. No cost attached
to it. I sent 250 cartriges along with it - they might
net have been in the same box, but I think they were. I
sent you some writing paper by Sheppard I have been
writing quite plainly about things which I have heard
about our Bro. V. His mother wants him to be called home.
I have been vetoing all along the boat. I know you won't
like it but by & by you will - I have sold out at Tumba
and will establish myself at Stanley Fool. Bro. V. won't
like that but I can't help it. I am running things here
just as though I was doing business for a big firm. The
Lord is my boss and I am doing the best I can for His
cause and the Missions good. Mrs. Crowley sends love
with me. Yours in Christ Crowley

Monday July 18 - 1898

Nothing much of importance happened during the day -
except that chemin de fer co. began tearing down the
buildings which were put up for the inauguration - todays
train brought us a letter from Flora and one from Mrs.
Wright - a card from Mr. Inslu, a nice leng letter from
the Ladies Aid Society of our church in Monroe La. and
three nice views of same 1 exterior & 2 interior views all
exceedingly nice & lovely - and the nicest letter to us
beth. I also had a book of $.S. Lessons from Flora. But
last of all I had very sad news - a letter from my dear
little sister, stating that Mother had gone to sleep in
Jesus on the goth of May. It was very hard sad news, b
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Return only the JSON object required by the supplied output schema.

## Explicit repair attempt

The prior response failed deterministic validation. Return a complete replacement
object, not a patch. Preserve the source reading and fix only the structural or
schema problems listed below.

<validation_errors>
- canonical: part p183-b002-p002 line 3 has block_end before the last line
- canonical: part p183-b002-p002 line 5 has block_end before the last line
- canonical: part p183-b002-p002 line 28 has block_end before the last line
</validation_errors>

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