New images: Marci letter wax

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All of the images I took are now in the shared folder.

Thanks again, Lisa. I saw that when you wrote this, you had uploaded a few more images than I saw at first. And they do have quite a bit of very useful information on them. Really important to me is that there was a ruler on the light table in both the vertical and horizontal positions. This is great for all measurements, overall size, "tab" size, and the spacing of the Lines & Chains.

They are also so much better than the large, "official" .tif at the Beinecke site. Although large, it seems that when they took it, the letter had a sort of gauze or mesh over it. This seems to have blurred the detail, making it difficult to even see the lines. I always supposed that mesh was some sort of support for the weak paper of the letter, but didn't know. And I worried it was adhered TO the letter, but I see it was not... when you took your pictures, it appears there was no mesh. Do you happen to know what that was? Was it still there with the letter?

I've got them all downloaded, and hope to be able to work with them in the next week or two.

Rich