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Originally Posted by hildea
If you modernize the spelling and include a note saying that you have modernized the spelling, it would be extremely unreasonable for anyone to complain. Do what you want, and tell potential readers what you've done, I say.
(I read an edition of some of Austen's unfinished, with her original spelling left intact, and was torn out of the story all the time by her "freind" and "freindship", so personally I'm all for updated spelling.)
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You'll want to avoid the editions of Austen that I've uploaded to the MR library then. In all of those I've painstakingly editing all the spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation FROM modern conventions back to the originals.