There is a damaged provenance accompanying the brief and a personal card of Hannibal Hamlin. The manuscript is part of the Harriet Irving Libraries' Beaverbrook Collection. The Chipman Brief was transcribed from a copy of the manuscript and then collated against the original. Images of the brief were captured to photo cd by UNB's Audio Visual Services. The images were then edited for the web using Photoshop 4 in the Text Centre.
Web publishing allows editors to continually alter, augment and correct their edition of a work.
The Chipman brief offers many directions for expansion. Some of the quotes still need to be fully identified and there are countless letters, newspaper articles and manuscripts that would supplement the Chipman project nicely. In short, the project is on-going. Please contact the ETC with any comments, questions, or observations you may have regarding the project. The Ward Chipman Slavery Brief has been compiled by the staff of the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick.