For my annotation project, I chose the Hamilton and Burr Duel correspondence document. The document I chose consisted of letters sent back and forth from Hamilton and Burr. These letters would then lead to the duel between the two that would result in the death of Hamilton. When looking at the document choices, I automatically drawn to this one because it was basically giving me the steps that would lead to the climax of the whole story. As far as research goes, I have started looking for insight just yet. I wanted to take time and read over the letters a couple of times to make sure I knew exactly what was going on and how each of the two were feeling toward each other. I wanted to establish my own personal annotation before I went to get information from another source. My biggest obstacle is trying to accurately paraphrase what the two were saying to each other. If it was just a regular document with one person expressing their feelings, then it would have been easier for me to comprehend. But since it is two people that are writing back and forth to each other, some of the things they say to each other could have a deeper meaning than what is perceived and that would lead to me displaying false information to the people reading my annotations. To help with this obstacle, I am going to try and look at the document as if I were either Hamilton or Burr. This would help me see things from their perspective and it could help with some of the lines that are hard to annotate. Other than that everything else is going smooth with the project, it should be interesting trying to annotate what was essentially a beef with Hamilton and Burr.
