[Possible project] Short Fiction, by Charles Beaumont

[Hendrik Kaiber]

I finished proofreading Waverley and would like to a small break from it before applying the necessary fixes. As such, I would like to produce a collection of short fiction by Charles Beaumont.  According to my research, only three of his stories are believed to be in the Public Domain, so it will be a short book.

Artwork for these kind of productions is always an issue, so I think an abstract painting might be suitable, I'm thinking Movement by Marsden Hartley could work.

The links for the scans and transcriptions are in the spreadsheet. Can I work on it?

--Hendrik

[Alex Cabal]

Sure, you can work on that. Please send a link to your repo once you start.

On 9/12/25 11:26 AM, Hendrik Kaiber wrote:
> I finished proofreading /Waverley/ and would like to a small break from

> it before applying the necessary fixes. As such, I would like to produce
> a collection of short fiction by Charles Beaumont.  According to my

> research <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
> d/1SHbLqOdUgoodaBs_Mpv2KH25pr2jP-aiDVSbJSuxEjo/edit?gid=0#gid=0>, only

> three of his stories are believed to be in the Public Domain, so it will
> be a short book.
>
> Artwork for these kind of productions is always an issue, so I think an

> abstract painting might be suitable, I'm thinking /Movement <https://
> standardebooks.org/artworks/marsden-hartley/movement> /by Marsden

> Hartley could work.
>
> The links for the scans and transcriptions are in the spreadsheet. Can I
> work on it?
>
> --Hendrik
>

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[Hendrik Kaiber]

Here’s my repo.

--Hendrik

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Vince will manage this with Emma reviewing.

On 9/12/25 9:25 PM, Hendrik Kaiber wrote:
> Here’s <https://github.com/HendrikBK/charles-beaumont_short-fiction> my

> repo.
>
> --Hendrik
> On Friday, September 12, 2025 at 1:44:27 PM UTC-3 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> Sure, you can work on that. Please send a link to your repo once you
> start.
>
> On 9/12/25 11:26 AM, Hendrik Kaiber wrote:
> > I finished proofreading /Waverley/ and would like to a small
> break from
> > it before applying the necessary fixes. As such, I would like to
> produce
> > a collection of short fiction by Charles Beaumont.  According to my

> > research <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/ <https://
> docs.google.com/spreadsheets/>

> > d/1SHbLqOdUgoodaBs_Mpv2KH25pr2jP-aiDVSbJSuxEjo/edit?gid=0#gid=0>,
> only
> > three of his stories are believed to be in the Public Domain, so
> it will
> > be a short book.
> >
> > Artwork for these kind of productions is always an issue, so I
> think an
> > abstract painting might be suitable, I'm thinking /Movement
> <https://

> > standardebooks.org/artworks/marsden-hartley/movement <http://

> standardebooks.org/artworks/marsden-hartley/movement>> /by Marsden
> > Hartley could work.
> >
> > The links for the scans and transcriptions are in the
> spreadsheet. Can I
> > work on it?
> >
> > --Hendrik
> >
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[Hendrik Kaiber]

A few questions:

Regarding The Beautiful People (pages 13 and 14):

There is a letter in this story, and I'm not sure how to properly format it:

1 - The whole letter is in italics. Do you think I should remove it or keep it? If it should be kept I assume that the whole <blockquote> should be select in the CSS, instead of having <i> in individual elements. Do you agree?

2 - There are two instances of dates, with only the last two digits of the year. How would the <time> element be written?

3 - There are two instances of a single letter been used to refer to a unit/department (Dept F). I'm not sure what the semantics should be here, maybe graphemes?

4 - In Elegy (page 115) there is another instance of a single letter followed by an subscript (K₇). Should this also be a grapheme or something else?

--Hendrik