When original documents or extracts from them tell a clear and reasonably concise story, I sometimes insert them bodily in the text.

In other cases I give my own version of the facts which they set forth, but give the full text in foot-notes.

In nearly all instances references are given to sources of documentary information.

I greatly regret that Taylor's narrative, with its very numerous supporting documents, is not readily accessible to the student of history.

It ought to have been published, but never got beyond the galley-proof stage.