# Control Corpus Manifest — Stylometric Calibration Texts

Single-author texts contemporary with the Book of Mormon (1830), used to calibrate
the stylometric method. Two are deliberate pseudo-biblical (KJV-imitation) prose,
to test whether "biblical register" masquerades as an authorship signal.

All files are UTF-8 plain text. Each begins with three `#` comment lines
(title/author/date, source URL, OCR/boundary notes) followed by the full raw text.
Word counts below are raw (including front/back matter and any boilerplate).

| File | Title | Author | Date | Words (raw) | Source | OCR quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `latewar_hunt_1816.txt` | The Late War, between the United States and Great Britain | Gilbert J. Hunt | 1816 | 59,505 | https://archive.org/download/latewarbetweenun00hunt/latewarbetweenun00hunt_djvu.txt | Good; doubled spaces throughout, occasional errors. Main text begins CHAP. I ~line 192. **Pseudo-biblical.** |
| `napoleon_linning_1809.txt` | The First Book of Napoleon, the Tyrant of the Earth | "Eliakim the Scribe" (Michael Linning) | 1809 | 23,830 | https://archive.org/download/firstbooknapole00gruagoog/firstbooknapole00gruagoog_djvu.txt | Moderate (Google scan; scattered garbled words). Google legal front matter lines ~1-290; text ends "END OF BOOK I." **Pseudo-biblical.** Note: short work (~20k words of body text). |
| `viewhebrews_esmith_1823.txt` | View of the Hebrews | Ethan Smith | 1823 (1st ed.) | 56,874 | https://archive.org/download/viewofhebrewsexh00smitrich/viewofhebrewsexh00smitrich_djvu.txt | Decent; scattered errors and doubled spaces. Main text begins CHAPTER I ~line 165; errata page at end. |
| `sketchbook_irving_1820.txt` | The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. | Washington Irving | 1819–1820 | 131,534 | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2048/pg2048.txt | Clean Gutenberg etext (no OCR errors). Gutenberg license boilerplate outside the `*** START/END ***` markers. |
| `mohicans_cooper_1826.txt` | The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757 | James Fenimore Cooper | 1826 | 151,499 | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/940/pg940.txt | Clean Gutenberg etext (no OCR errors). Gutenberg boilerplate outside `*** START/END ***` markers; chapter epigraphs (quoted verse from other authors) present — consider stripping for analysis. |

Total: 5 works, ~423k raw words.

Preprocessing notes for later cleaning:
- Archive.org DjVu OCR files use doubled spaces between words and hard line
  wraps with hyphenation; normalize whitespace and de-hyphenate before tokenizing.
- Strip front matter (bookplates, Google legal text, prefaces if desired) and
  back matter (errata, colophons, Gutenberg license) per the per-file header notes.
- Cooper's chapter epigraphs quote other authors (Shakespeare, Pope, etc.) and
  should be removed for single-author calibration.
