Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present now available

David Haven Blake and Michael Robertson, ed., Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008), is now available as a PDF via the Current Criticism section of the Archive. The book is made available with the permission of the University of Iowa Press.

Useful Links Page and Updated PDFs now available

Kyle Barton and Ed Folsom created a Useful Links page for the Resources section of the Archive, which I made available on Monday, May 6. In addition, Kyle OCR'ed the PDFs of older books from the Iowa Whitman Series to make them searchable PDFs. The updated PDFs are available via the Selected Criticism section of the Archive and are now included in the sitewide search.

~Liz

Change to nar.00779 Scribal Document

Scribal document nar.00779 is a transcription of a cover letter and enclosed contract between the U.S. Government and the Union Pacific Rail Road Company. When nar.00779 was originally transcribed, only the cover letter was included in the transcription. As I was finishing up transcriptions of scribal documents, I noticed that the contract was not transcribed along with the cover letter, and so I transcribed and encoded it, changed the @facs, and made sure the images were in the directory.

See the complete document here! http://www.whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/scribal/tei/nar.00779.html

~Courtney Lawton

changes to two correspondence files

The footnotes for two pieces of correspondence, nar.03604 and
nar.03605 were showing up inline rather than at the end of the
document. I have fixed the encoding, which was causing this problem.
The letters are available at:

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/reconstruction/tei/nar.03604.html
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/reconstruction/tei/nar.03605.html

~Liz

change made to Texas EAD

I have updated the Texas EAD to indicate that the letter on the verso
of tex.00045 is not in Whitman's hand, which we previously indicated
that it was.

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/finding_aids/U_Texas.html

Correction to Ellen M. O'Connor letter to Whitman, 21 November 1863

I noticed a typo ("Now" for "No") while consulting this letter, so I've corrected it.

~ Brett

Correction to transcription, Fred Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 27 March 1860

Ed Folsom pointed out a transcription error in the letter from Fred
Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 27 March 1860
(http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.00569.html).
The phrase "It appeared to me to be strained" had been incorrectly
transcribed as "I appeared to me to be strained." I have fixed this
mistake.

~Liz