# Memoirs of Sir Walter Raleigh; his life, his military and naval exploits, his preferments and death ... Written by Mr. Theobald

**Slug:** `memoirs_of_raleigh_1719`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for W. Mears, 1719. FIRST edition (prose). Bonus item.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_memoirs-of-sir-walter-ra_theobald-mr-lewis_1719` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_memoirs-of-sir-walter-ra_theobald-mr-lewis_1719
  - catalogue title: Memoirs of Sir Walter Raleigh; his life, his military and naval exploits, his preferments and death: ... Written by Mr. Theobald.  1719
  - date field: 1719; images/frames: 40; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40316215-39', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_memoirs-of-sir-walter-ra_theobald-mr-lewis_1719_djvu.txt`


## Cleaned text(s)
- `memoirs_of_raleigh_1719.clean.txt` - c. 10,500 words; 10,523 words; 95% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete.

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).
Also on archive.org as memoirssirwalte00theogoog (Google scan) and HathiTrust mdp.39015063625019.