Terminal comma (MS VIII, MS IX)—See Editorial and Encoding Rationale and Methodology: Element, Attribute, and Value Usage—Commas, Periods, and Other Punctuation.

“asentinel” (MS VIII)—Words joined in manuscript.

Blank space on page for possible drawing (MS IX)—Since the first line of this prose section is placed significantly below the top of the page, leaving a blank vertical column measuring approximately seventeen lines of Ruskinʼs cursive copperplate script, it is reasonable to assume that he intended to paste a drawing here, but never produced it, or that he produced a drawing, but it has been removed or lost.

Left‐margin word division mark (MS IX)—See Editorial and Encoding Rationale and Methodology: Element, Attribute, and Value Usage—Justification, Runover, and Word Division.