Letters by Stephen J. Fuller, Port Dover, 1849-1850
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Two letters written by Stephen J. Fuller of Port Dover. The first letter is addressed to W.H. Fitts, the postmaster at Lewiston and is dated December 1849. Fuller complains of complications arising from a letter addressed to him being held at the post office, writing that “I enclose ten cents to pay for a letter you say is lying in this (Lewiston) office to my address. This is the second notice of a similar kind I have rec’d from you…and I have to request that you will not again put me to the…expense of paying double British postage for a piece of information…the last letter you sent me was four months between New York and your office…”. A brief reply from W.H. Fitts, the postmaster at Lewiston is included on the reverse. He writes that “permit me to call your attention to the note appended to the notice you received from this office. It is indispensable that the notice should be returned when the letter is ordered”. The letter is postmarked Buffalo, N.Y. Dec 27. The second letter is addressed to Sir. H. Bulwer, British Minister and is dated January 1850. Sir Henry Bulwer was the British ambassador to the United States at this time. Fuller complains about the postal service between Canada and the U.S. through Lewiston, writing that “the postal arrangements between the Sovereign and the U.S. as at present conducted in the U.S. frontier post-office at Lewiston has become a source of such serious inconvenience and unnecessary expense to the inhabitants of this portion of Western Canada that it is deemed a … subject for representation to the head of the Post Office department at Washington”.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.193 | 0.086 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".