These journals were not written with the intent to publish. I added nothing and only made words more specific when the subject was implied in my head but not specified for a reader. I cut out anything too repetitive, TMI, or not relevant to my purposes.
If I were a member of Charles Darwin's family revising and publishing his autobiography posthumously, this might be considered a "bowdlerized" version but luckily I am not and it's just helpful editing.