Capitals in M&D

[Tim Strzechowski]

Fair enough, and perhaps I should have tied that notion to what I included 
in a later post:

[...] "the capitalization at that time was often used by writers as a means 
of stressing certain words within the context of the sentence" [...]

Thanks for the clarification!

Tim


Quoth Steve Maas:

> My only quibble is that "not standardized" does not necessarily equal 
> "random." I doubt that the writers you cite would have described their 
> particular choices of what nouns to capitalize as "random." I would guess 
> they were likely following a scheme that made sense to them -- a personal 
> "code" if you will.
>