I'm reading Donald Davidson's Plato's Philebus, his Harvard PhD dissertation from 1949. The Routledge reprint just presents the type-written original, complete with hand-written bits of Greek. So it's all there, warts and all. Some of those warts are rather nice. On pp. 18-19, for example, D. twice writes 'Protagoras' when he means 'Protarchus'. I noticed because I've just spotted the same slip in something I wrote so it's good to be in good company, at least. Damn those 'Prot-something' Greeks; nearly as bad as all those 'Anaxa/i-something' Presocratics...
And then there is this in the one-page preface to the 1990 edition:
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Recently, after a meeting with Thomas Johansen on the Timaeus, I looked back at my notes, to find I had entitled it ‘Notes on discussion with Timaeus’, as if I’d had a chance to debate with the man himself...
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