⇉ Handshift:Jessie C. H. Gorham* others had greatly liked my tiny memoranda attached, to save hunting throughAs Written:thro' letters for comparison. She evidently did not. Yet in absence of such explanations she asked Laura what I meant, only to hear: "I don't know, Mother! I think she doesn't know herself!" This, Laura personally admitted to me, after I had explained to her comprehensively enough for a child in the 1st 6 months of Grammar to understand fully. A tyroEditorial Note: A "tyro" is a person who is a beginner in learning an art, trade, or other activity. would understand when told, that ambiguous passages, if cleared up by means of simple declarative sentences, would require punctuation wholly different from that required if resort were made to one complex sentence demanding colon or semicolons, etc; that the punctuation in such cases must necessarily wait upon the author's final choice of construction — which was why I frankly admitted at the outset, my unwillingness to attempt such a task without a stipulated final page-proof reading with the author; and said tyro should be able to repeat the fact three hours later comprehensively, without any "I don't know, Mother." to it. – G.