Archive Notice: The Draw Office Writes to Pell

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0063
ORIGIN The Archive at Low Field · Low Field
CLASS Archive Notice
DECODED Desk day 63
CONFIDENCE Partial

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…the Draw Office's letter arrived during the second shelf-check, and Pell has entered it in the correspondence log under an open heading, as she does with items she does not yet know how to close.

The letter contains two questions. The first: whether the word "hollowed" appears in the oldest holdings as a classification or as a description. The answer is both. Pell has found it used as a marginal note beside three names — keepers entered in the Ledger, gifts intact, no closing date — in a volume from a collection period the Archive cannot precisely date. She is prepared to say this on the record.

The second question is whether the Archive has, at any point, recorded a formal request to be removed from the Count while living. Pell paused here before entering her answer, which is: yes, once, [—] the entry is present in the supplementary holdings, attributed, and has no resolution noted. It predates the correction ledger. It predates several things.

She has written back to the Draw Office. She has also written to Orrin Vell, whose release request is, as she understands it, still pending. The letter to Orrin she entered in the Ledger. The letter to the Draw Office she did not.

Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: The Archive entered one letter and not the other; the Desk notes this without knowing what the distinction means.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.