See if you can transcribe this letter I received yesterday.

Will post up the answer later

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That's not too bad; the only thing I'm not sure about is that mark after まだ in the second line -- is that supposed to be the ku-no-ji repetition mark? That should just be one, but maybe it's a different symbol I'm not familiar with.

yes, it's the repeating symbol for hiragana　まだまだ。
only for vertical writing. (first time I have seen it too).

Transcribed below...

context is I ordered a hand made tripod bag.
Also, this person is older so uses some older styles of words (pointed out below)


ソックさん、
お元気ですか
日本はまだまだ寒いです
今回の注文の袋は上手に縫えておりません。上の方を開けた方が入れやすいかと
途中で変更しました。紐を上に入れ替えても良いかと思ひますが。(old style of 思います）
とても頭の体操になります。次回はどんな物を注文されるか楽しみです。
乱筆乱文ながら失礼します。
ソックさんへ。 (Note the　へ　here in the letter is the written version used only in letter handwriting　ちょんちょん　　濁点マーク).

by the way. not in this letter but I also learned today that older folks sometimes use
けふ　instead of 今日。

socrat Wrote:yes, it's the repeating symbol for hiragana　まだまだ。
only for vertical writing. (first time I have seen it too).

I've seen lots of those in old manuscripts, but I've never seen one that has two marks like that instead of just one. Usually it looks like this:

Thank you, Al Gore (self proclaimed inventor of the Internet), for the digital revolution. I will forever be grateful to you that reading people's handwriting is no longer something I need to concern myself with.

This makes me feel better about my handwriting! Mine is bad but this is actually pretty similar in messiness. Thanks for the reading practice :-).

Am I crazy, or did he write 上の方を聞けた方が入れやすい?

Looks like 聞 to me too.

まだまだ
This, actually had seen before.
A asked B if he can use ]apanese in daily life. Then B said "まだまだ". Means he can't use fluently.