Description
80 thousand messages sent and received by a lighthouse keeper in Port Larkstead.
Provenance
Deposited by the estate, with written instructions on access. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7f05f058c3b7d1a95f58a6fec5f467ac984e0c577dcc9343f165e5ef7715d612- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- EML and PDF/A-2b, with the original mailboxes kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
Reading-room copies are migrated to EML and PDF/A-2b, with the original mailboxes kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Selin Ellis, Correspondence of Selin Ellis, 1999–2009 (1999–2009). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10175.