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The manuscript that the archivists found in the locked cabinet contains revisions absent from the printed edition. Some are corrections of dates; others qualify claims that later readers have treated as categorical. Although the handwriting is difficult, the changes can be compared with letters the author sent during the same period. The discovery does not establish which version the author ultimately preferred. It does establish that an apparently settled statement passed through a stage at which its scope was narrower. Any account of the argument's development must take that stage into consideration.

The manuscript that the archivists found in the locked cabinet contains revisions absent from the printed edition. Some are corrections of dates; others qualify claims that later readers have treated as categorical. Although the handwriting is difficult, the changes can be compared with letters the author sent during the same period. The discovery does not establish which version the author ultimately preferred. It does establish that an apparently settled statement passed through a stage at which its scope was narrower. Any account of the argument's development must take that stage into consideration.

A researcher ①examining the harbour records found a series of entries ②that had been altered after a dispute. The dates of the alterations, rather than the dates of the original shipments, ③were crucial to her argument. She considered ④it necessary to compare the ink with that used in neighbouring entries. Having completed the comparison, ⑤her explanation was revised to allow for a later intervention in the record. The final report distinguishes what the physical evidence shows from what the researcher regards as a plausible motive.

The evidence was not strong enough to establish that the captain had ordered the alteration. It was, however, sufficient to undermine the claim that the register had remained untouched since the voyage. An unexplained change does not identify its author, but it can still make an earlier assumption untenable. The historian accordingly withdrew the assertion of an untouched record while leaving the question of responsibility open.

Only after the two versions had been compared (A) ______ that a qualification had disappeared from the published account. The change made the conclusion sound more certain than the surviving notes (B) ______. The editor recorded the discrepancy but did not assume that it had been intentional; a missing line could result from either an editorial choice or a copying error.