# Pratt corpus manifest

| File | Title | Date | Words | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| voice_of_warning_1837.txt | A Voice of Warning and Instruction to All People | 1837 (text follows 1881 11th ed.) | 35,259 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35554 | High (single-authored book) |

## Notes and caveats
- Author: Parley P. Pratt (1807-1857). First published New York, 1837; a core single-authored 1830s text.
- **Edition caveat:** the only clean machine-readable transcription (Project Gutenberg / Mormon Texts Project) is the 11th edition, Salt Lake City, 1881, which is posthumous. Pratt himself revised the text through editions in the 1840s-50s; post-1857 publisher changes are believed modest, but the wording is not guaranteed identical to the 1837 first edition. An 1837 first-edition scan exists (archive.org item `per_utah-and-the-mormons_pp-pratt_1837`) but its OCR is too noisy for stylometry (broken words, running headers, stray characters).
- Cleaning: Gutenberg boilerplate, transcriber credit, title page, and table of contents removed. Chapter VII removed entirely (it is a two-column contrast table alternating verbatim KJV scripture with Pratt's parodies of it -- roughly half non-authorial text, and the authorial half is deliberate KJV pastiche). All double-quoted spans removed (predominantly Bible/Book of Mormon quotations), including 19th-century multi-paragraph quote continuations; scripture citations (e.g. `--Isaiah xlii, 9`) removed. Pratt's own prefaces (to the 1st American and 2nd European editions) retained.
- Word count above is the cleaned text; ~16,600 words of quoted matter were stripped from the ~56,200-word raw body.
- Residual risk: short unmarked scriptural phrases woven into Pratt's own sentences remain (they are part of his prose flow).
