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A historian examines a merchant's letter in stages. First she identifies its practical purpose: the writer wants a shipment released. Next she notices how the writer describes the delay, blaming officials while saying little about his own missing documents. Finally she compares the letter with a shipping record. The record does not make the letter worthless. It helps explain why the account is shaped as it is. Reading the letter only for dates would miss the persuasion; reading it only as an unreliable complaint would discard useful information about the dispute. The historian needs both the events described and the position from which they are described. Her later reading therefore revises, rather than simply repeats, the first. A document can become more informative when its limits are understood, because those limits may themselves reveal what its author hoped to achieve.

A historian examines a merchant's letter in stages. First she identifies its practical purpose: the writer wants a shipment released. Next she notices how the writer describes the delay, blaming officials while saying little about his own missing documents. Finally she compares the letter with a shipping record. The record does not make the letter worthless. It helps explain why the account is shaped as it is. Reading the letter only for dates would miss the persuasion; reading it only as an unreliable complaint would discard useful information about the dispute. The historian needs both the events described and the position from which they are described. Her later reading therefore revises, rather than simply repeats, the first. A document can become more informative when its limits are understood, because those limits may themselves reveal what its author hoped to achieve.

A historian examines a merchant's letter in stages. First she identifies its practical purpose: the writer wants a shipment released. Next she notices how the writer describes the delay, blaming officials while saying little about his own missing documents. Finally she compares the letter with a shipping record. The record does not make the letter worthless. It helps explain why the account is shaped as it is. Reading the letter only for dates would miss the persuasion; reading it only as an unreliable complaint would discard useful information about the dispute. The historian needs both the events described and the position from which they are described. Her later reading therefore revises, rather than simply repeats, the first. A document can become more informative when its limits are understood, because those limits may themselves reveal what its author hoped to achieve.

A historian examines a merchant's letter in stages. First she identifies its practical purpose: the writer wants a shipment released. Next she notices how the writer describes the delay, blaming officials while saying little about his own missing documents. Finally she compares the letter with a shipping record. The record does not make the letter worthless. It helps explain why the account is shaped as it is. Reading the letter only for dates would miss the persuasion; reading it only as an unreliable complaint would discard useful information about the dispute. The historian needs both the events described and the position from which they are described. Her later reading therefore revises, rather than simply repeats, the first. A document can become more informative when its limits are understood, because those limits may themselves reveal what its author hoped to achieve.

A historian examines a merchant's letter in stages. First she identifies its practical purpose: the writer wants a shipment released. Next she notices how the writer describes the delay, blaming officials while saying little about his own missing documents. Finally she compares the letter with a shipping record. The record does not make the letter worthless. It helps explain why the account is shaped as it is. Reading the letter only for dates would miss the persuasion; reading it only as an unreliable complaint would discard useful information about the dispute. The historian needs both the events described and the position from which they are described. Her later reading therefore revises, rather than simply repeats, the first. A document can become more informative when its limits are understood, because those limits may themselves reveal what its author hoped to achieve.