Familar Letters by Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813-43)
- These letters were written during 1839 to family members and friends during his travels for the Mission of Inquiry to the Jews.
- My transcription of this work was done in October/November 2001 and was originally intended to have been published in my old website.
- That plan was never completed before the site was shutdown in early 2011 when Sky closed its subsidiary UK Online.
- A replacement site Robert Murray M'Cheyne Resources provides some of the same information, though this too omits any of the text from Familiar Letters.
- The uploaded files are in Rich Text Format.
- RTF is stored as text files with file extension .rtf that can be inspected with any ordinary text editor.
- This file type can be opened for editing with WordPad or MS Word®, etc.
- All the RTF files were resaved from WordPad to simplify them without significant loss.
- Letter01.rtf had somehow been corrupted. It was reconstructed by saving from Letter01.htm dated 2001-11-11.
- Each RTF file has recently been converted to MarkDown format using a Free Online RTF to MD Converter and saved in the MD folder.
- There are a few character level conversion artefacts in most of these MD files that still need to be fixed.
- There were also some sub-optimal choices made during transcription for various punctuation mark characters.
- Letters 21 to 25 were not transcribed in 2001, so these are not yet available here.
- Omitted from the transcription were some short OT scripture quotations that he wrote in Biblical Hebrew.
- cf. 2001 was well before I learned to use Unicode.
- Familiar Letters is Public Domain.
- Incomplete - see my transcription notes above.
David Haslam (text/module developer) - 26 January 2021