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The publication of this fragment is supplied with artwork, generally characteristic of the following pages, too. Thus, on the sidelines of many of the album pages (the articles themselves occurring in the albums without the sides), one can see handwritten notes by H.P.B. made in black ink (rarely, with blue or red pencil). They vary quite a lot in size – from one word, name, date, or underlined emphasis to a small note of a couple of dozen sentences – but as a rule they comprise several words or sentences containing a brief clarification of the history, meaning and purpose of the given publication, as well as H.P.B.’s attitude to the writer and what is written by him. H.P.B.’s explanations may pertain to any of the album materials – figures, poems, announcements, letters, her own articles, those by H.S.O. or any other author, including the anonymous ones.
The publication of this fragment is supplied with artwork, generally characteristic of the following pages, too. Thus, on the sidelines of many of the album pages (the articles themselves occurring in the albums without the sides), one can see handwritten notes by H.P.B. made in black ink (rarely, with blue or red pencil). They vary quite a lot in size – from one word, name, date, or underlined emphasis to a small note of a couple of dozen sentences – but as a rule they comprise several words or sentences containing a brief clarification of the history, meaning and purpose of the given publication, as well as H.P.B.’s attitude to the writer and what is written by him. H.P.B.’s explanations may pertain to any of the album materials – figures, poems, announcements, letters, her own articles, those by H.S.O. or any other author, including the anonymous ones.


[[Файл:SB-01-005.jpg|thumb|right|Page 5 from HPB Scrapbooks, vol.I]]
[[File:SB-01-005.jpg|thumb|right|Page 5 from HPB Scrapbooks, vol.I]]
Thus, the reader may see on the represented below and, due to difficult legibility of the original, quite drastically retouched by us copy of the page (page 5, Album vol. I, or P.A. H.P.B. I—5) the following:
Thus, the reader may see on the represented below and, due to difficult legibility of the original, quite drastically retouched by us copy of the page (page 5, Album vol. I, or P.A. H.P.B. I—5) the following: