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An important feature of this edition is its copious notes,which are of three types. Notes indexed with both a number and a letter,for example [4.B.], are end-notes provided by Byron or, following Canto IV,by J. C. Hobhouse. These end-notes follow each Canto.
Both the verse and the end-notes have footnotes, whichare indicated by small raised keys in brackets; these are links to thefootnote's text. Footnotes indexed with arabic numbers (e.g. [17],[221]) are informational. Footnotes indexed withletters (e.g. [c], [bf]) document variant forms of the text frommanuscripts and other sources.
In the original, footnotes were printed at the foot of the page on whichthey were referenced, and their indices started over on each page. Inthis etext, footnotes have been collected following each canto orblock of end-notes, and have been numbered consecutively throughout.Text in footnotes and end-notes in square brackets is the work of EditorE. H. Coleridge. Text not in brackets is by Byron or Hobhouse. Incertain notes on variant text, the editor showed deleted text struckthrough with lines, for example deleted words.
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The text of the present edition ofChilde Harold's Pilgrimageis based upon a collation of volume i. ofthe Library Edition, 1855, with the following MSS.:(i.) the original MS. of the First and Second Cantos,in Byron's handwriting [MS. M.];(ii.) a transcriptof the First and Second Cantos, in the handwriting ofR. C. Dallas [D.];(iii.) a transcript of the ThirdCanto, in the handwriting of Clara Jane Clairmont [C.];(iv.) a collection of "scraps," forming a first draftof the Third Canto, in Byron's handwriting [MS.];(v.) a fair copy of the first draft of the Fourth Canto,together with the MS. of the a