Well, that seems perfectly within his purview to me.

Even putting the original date on it as it’s retyped is certainly acceptable; the date of a letter is part of the provenance of the information in the letter, not the ink particles or the paper.

And clearly, no fraud is intended; even in our zero tolerance world, scienter is still a valid component of badness.

(For more on zero tolerance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Baylink/Zero_tolerance )