# Endnotes explained — Clouds of Witness

> Chapter companion for Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers.

## What happens

The endnotes provide corrections, amplifications, and annotations to the trial report, drawing from Mr. Parker's shorthand notes and referencing historical cases and procedural details.

## Themes in this chapter

### Justice and the Legal System

The endnotes detail the procedural and evidentiary corrections to the trial report, highlighting the meticulous nature of legal documentation.

## Character check-ins

### Mr. Parker

His shorthand report is used to correct and amplify the newspaper account.

### Lord Peter Wimsey

His reading of The Times report is referenced as the basis for the corrected version.

### Duke of Denver

The Duchess is mentioned in connection with Dr. Pritchard's case.

## Key lines

> This report, though substantially the same as that read by Lord Peter in The Times, has been corrected, amplified and annotated from the shorthand report made at the time by Mr. Parker.

The report is largely identical to the one Lord Peter read in The Times, but it has been corrected and expanded using Mr. Parker's contemporaneous shorthand notes.

_Clarifies the source and revisions of the trial report._

> Antimony? The Duchess appears to have had Dr. Pritchard’s case in mind.

The Duchess's mention of antimony suggests she was thinking of the Dr. Pritchard poisoning case.

_Connects a detail in the text to a historical poisoning case._

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