He was employed to make a fair copy of the lecturer's rough manuscript for the reading to the public.
I spent the following day in making a fair copy of my report and in having the plans done on a larger scale.
Intending that she should read his letter, he omitted it till he made the fair copy.
This fair copy also shows signs of haste: slips of the pen, repetition of words, a number of unimportant revisions.
Many canon autographs are in sketch or draft notation rather than fair copy.
In the fair copy each of the six instruments has its own staff, with the staves arranged in the usual score order.
The crucial question, therefore, is whether the fair copy accurately represents the contents of the record kept during sittings.