I have hundreds of letters (or a two-hundred-page diary). Im sure theres good stuff in there, but wont it cost a fortune?
It will not be inexpensive. The cost of $150-$200 per 1000 words really adds up, no question about it. But it is painstaking and physically demanding work requiring much skill in deciphering, translating, and writing. There are, however, ways to narrow the scope of the translation, which may reduce the cost somewhat. How do you narrow the scope? I recently translated a correspondence comprising about 150 letters written by an Austrian family to their son who had immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s. The fathers letters to his son were full of well-intentioned (but largely useless) fatherly advice about setting up a business in a country about which he knew nothing. His concern for his son was touching and palpable. The mothers letters, though equally concerned and loving, rarely dealt with anything of substance. They consisted mainly of hand-wringing about his health and prosperity, and pleas to God Almighty on his behalf. By agreement with the client, I skipped most of h
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