TL;DR Most primary sources never get published. The grant-funded model cannot fix this. A minimal, AI-assisted, independently maintained digital edition can. This is what this critical edition sets out to demonstrate.

Cavriana's letters have real historical value. But that alone does not explain why they are published here, in this form, using this method. Plenty of valuable sources never get published at all. This edition exists as much for all those sources still in the drawer as for the letters themselves.