Thank you, Katherine! Beautifully narrated!
It's not unusual with old public domain stories to be taken and edited and redistributed altered, but for Librivox we need to use the original PD source, in this case the gutenberg text linked to below the story:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53419/53419-h/53419-h.htm#THE_DEAD_WOMANS_PHOTOGRAPH
Here are the differences I noticed between the original text and the recording:
First paragraphs truncated; text is
"Virgil Hoyt is a photographer’s assistant up at St. Paul, and a man of a good deal of taste. He has been in search of the picturesque all over the West, and hundreds of miles to the north in Canada, and can speak three or four Indian dialects, and put a canoe through the rapids. That is to say, he is a man of an adventurous sort and no dreamer. He can fight well and shoot well and swim well enough to put up a winning race with the Indian boys, and he can sit all day in the saddle and not dream about it at night.
Wherever he goes he uses his camera.
“The world,” Hoyt is in the habit of saying to those who sit with him when he smokes his pipe, “was created in six days to be photographed. Man—and especially woman—was made for the same purpose. Clouds are not made to give moisture, nor trees to cast shade. They were created for the photographer.”
In short, Virgil Hoyt’s view of the world is whimsical, and he doesn’t like to be bothered with anything disagreeable."
0:59 "Not long ago he was sent for by a rich Jewish family at St. Paul to photograph the mother"
1:45 "such as may often be seen among Jewish matrons"
4:48 "he was an ignoramus where women were concerned"
4:56 "he ambled on like this, stupid man that he was"
Would you be available for these fixes? Thank you!
