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Washington City May 10th, 1852. My Dear Miss Waterston, I have your note of Saturday soliciting the appointment of William M. Ladd, a young artist, to some consulate in Italy that shall enable him to pay his way and pursue his studies, and regret to say that there is no such place which is vacant. The consulate at Rome is filled, and those at Leghorn and Florence yield only from 200 to 250 a year and are wholly inadequate for the purposes which you desire. I am your obt. servt. Millard Fillmore

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Washington City May 10th, 1852. My Dear Miss Waterston, I have your note of Saturday soliciting the appointment of William M. Ladd, a young artist, to some consulate in Italy that shall enable him to pay his way and pursue his studies, and regret to say that there is no such place which is vacant. The consulate at Rome is filled, and those at Leghorn and Florence yield only from 200 to 250 a year and are wholly inadequate for the purposes which you desire. I am your obt. servt. Millard Fillmore
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Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 09:58:12 JST Waldo Jaquith

Over a decade ago, I worked on a presidential papers project. The audacious goal was to scan in all presidential papers, make them available for download, and extract any possible data. But until the advent of the typewriter, virtually no data *could* be extracted, other than the odd letterhead. My proposal was to collect the images, build a processing pipeline, and when OCR of handwriting was possible, do it then.
Well, ChatGPT *nailed* this. So many handwritten documents can be discoverable!

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