The DH 2010 CfP is out, and my initial submission will be using text-analysis on some of the Coldesp texts. I've spent the morning reading through the text I originally wrote and filling in some gaps (not finished yet, but it's well over 2,000 words already, so it will need some condensing at the end). I've also started preparing to re-run the analyses I did in June, and discovered that the CraigZeta spreadsheet (latest version, which is Excel 2007) actually seems to work on OpenOffice Calc, which is a relief (you have to make sure that VB macros are turned on in the Tools / Options / Load/Save / VBA Properties / Executable code). I've also confirmed that the Intelligent Archiver Java app works OK; and I already purchased a copy of Minitab (although for that I'll have to switch to Windows, unfortunately).

The next stage is to repeat the original analyses; then it would be a good idea to extract similar text for Douglas corresponding with Lytton's successor. There are 470 Newcastle-to-Douglas documents and 768 Douglas-to-Newcastle. These are far larger datasets, and might be even more interesting.