typo corrected, "A Backward Glance"

typo corrected, "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads"

Mario Corona identified a transcription typo (http://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/399) in "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" from Whitman's 1891-92 Leaves of Grass. On page 431, line 12, "old songs ferried hither from east [TYPO: cast] and west" This is now corrected. ~Katie Kruger

typo corrected, "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads"

Mario Corona identified a transcription typo (http://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/399) on page 429 of "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" from Whitman's 1891-92 Leaves of Grass. "Just as all the old imaginative works rest, after their kind, on long trains of presuppositions, often entirely unmention'd by themselves, yet [TYPO: vet] supplying the most important bases of them..." ~Katie Kruger

Staff page updated

Robert Gross has moved from the College of William & Mary to the University of Connecticut, so I have changed the staff page accordingly.

--Ken

Scribal documents now available and other changes

The first installment of 800 previously unidentified government documents in Whitman's handwriting is now available on the Whitman Archive. In 2012, we will add more than 2,200 additional documents to this section of the Archive.

Along with the release of the scribal documents we have made a number of other changes to the Archive between December 21 and December 22, 2011:

• The section of the Archive previously titled "Manuscripts" is now titled "In Whitman's Hand." This section includes Whitman's poetry manuscripts, scribal documents, and notebooks. We have moved the Integrated Guide to Whitman's poetry manuscripts and finding aids to Whitman's manuscripts at individual repositories to the Resources section of the site.
• The section of the Archive previously titled "Biography & Correspondence" is now titled "Life & Letters."
• The section of the Archive previously titled "Criticism" is now titled "Commentary."
• We have made changes to the site-wide xslt files that generate headers and footers for the pages to account for these revised section names and to make the navigation consistent throughout the site.
• We have modified a site-wide javascript file that generates the navigational breadcrumbs in order to take into account the revised section names and to make the navigation consistent.
• We have updated the Archive's Editorial Policy statement to include the scribal documents. We also corrected a typographical error in the editorial policy statement, fixing "eXtenxible" to "eXtensible."
  
• We have posted an updated version of the Spanish-language edition of Whitman's poetry, Álvaro Armando Vasseur's Poemas. The updated version is available both as an HTML rendering of our TEI-encoded XML and as an XML download. In 2012, we will migrate the encoding of the Vasseur text from the P4 TEI encoding standard to P5. At the time that we make the P5 version of the text available, we will also correct known issues in the HTML display of the text.
  
• We have fixed a broken links with our breadcrumbs navigation in the Civil War Correspondence and With Walt Whitman in Camden sections of the site.

~Liz

Typo corrected in encyclopedia entry

Archive user Andrew Rosa pointed out a typographical error in the encyclopedia entry for "Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition," which I have fixed. In the bibliography section, the citation for Ed Folsom's article, "What We're Still Learning about the 1855 Leaves of Grass 150 Years Later," previously read "What We're Still Leaning about the 1855 Leaves of Grass 150 Years Later."

~Liz

Complete Prose Works (1892): corrected footnote

We have corrected the transcription of the footnote that runs in the bottom margin of pages 204-205 of Whitman's Complete Prose Works (1892) so that it appears in a pop-up page: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/other/ppp.00504.html?noteNumber=n19. Thanks to Carlos Elisio Nascimento da Silva for suggesting this correction.
-Katie Kruger

Civil War letter Archive ID updated

The Civil War era Letter from Walt Whitman to Anson Ryder, Jr., 14 December 1866 was formerly held by a private collector. This letter is currently held in the Gay Wilson Allen Papers, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously prc.00001, the Archive ID for this letter is now duk.00531.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/prc.00001.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/duk.00531.html

~Janel