Civil War letter Archive ID updated

The location of the Civil War era Letter from Alexander Gardner to Walt Whitman, 26 November 1866 was formerly unknown. This letter has since been located at the Library of Congress and it is currently held in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously med.00329, the Archive ID for this letter is now loc.02115.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/med.00329.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.02115.html

~Janel

Civil War letter Archive ID updated

The location of the Civil War era Letter from Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, April 1866  was formerly unknown. This letter has since been located at Duke University and it is currently held in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously med.00328, the Archive ID for this letter is now duk.00388.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/med.00328.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/duk.00388.html

~Janel

Civil War letter Archive ID updated

The location of the Civil War era Letter from William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 19 October 1865 was formerly unknown. This letter has since been located at the Library of Congress and it is currently held in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously med.00327, the Archive ID for this letter is now loc.01819.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/med.00327.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.01819.html

~Janel

Civil War letter Archive ID updated

The location of the Civil War era Letter from William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 30 December 1864 was formerly unknown. This letter has since been located at the Library of Congress and it is currently held in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously med.00325, the Archive ID for this letter is now loc.01818.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/med.00325.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.01818.html

~Janel

Archive ID for a Feinberg poetry manuscript changed

The Whitman Archive ID for the Feinberg poetry manuscript, "?Some Hours of a half Paralytic" has been changed in the Feinberg finding guide (http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/finding_aids/Library_of_Congress-Feinberg.html). The Archive ID for this manuscript was formerly loc.00307 and has since been changed to loc.03275.

Archive ID for a Civil War letter changed

We had inadvertently given two objects the same Whitman Archive ID (loc.00847), although both were entered into the project database with different IDs. I've assigned one, Letter from William E. Babcock to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1865, a new Whitman Archive ID. Formerly loc.00847, the letter is now loc.01069.

The old url for the item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.00847.html

The current url is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.01069.html

~Janel

Archive ID for a review changed

We had inadvertently given two objects the same Whitman Archive ID (anc.00232), and neither were entered into the project database, so there were two documents on the Archive identified as anc.00232. I've assigned one, OBSERVER. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1867)]." The Massachusetts Weekly Spy  (2 November 1866): 1, a new Whitman Archive ID. Formerly anc.00232, the review is now anc.01069.

The old url for the item was http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1867/anc.00232.html

The current url is http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1867/anc.01069.html

~Liz

typo corrected in "Democratic Vistas" in the Complete Prose (1892)

On page 203 of Whitman's "Democratic Vistas" in the Complete Prose (1892), the text erroneously had read, "America, filling the present with greatest deeds and problems, cheerfully accepting the past, including feudalism, (as, indeed, the present is but the legitimate birth of the past, including feudalism,) counts, as I reckon, for her justification and success, (for i who, as yet, dare claim success?)". The "(for i who)" ought to read "(for who)". I have made this minor correction to the xml/tei file ppp.00504. Thank you to Carlos Elisio Nascimento da Silva for bringing this error to our attention.

--Katie Kruger

Note added to letter from Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 31 March 1863

A seemingly random "74" appeared in the body of the letter from Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 31 March 1863 (loc.00765), next to Probasco's name. This "74" corresponds with Edwin Haviland Miller's footnote 74 to the letter which appears on page 87 of the first volume of Whitman: The Correspondence (1842-1867). Miller's footnote reads, "See 31," which refers to the Letter from Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 16 January [1863] (wwh.00004), in which Whitman refers to Louis Probasco; on page 66, Miller offers the following footnote: "Louis Probasco, a young employee in the Brooklyn Water Works, probably the son of Samuel, listed as a cooper in the Brooklyn Directory of 1861-1862." I have therefore added the footnote 6 to this letter which reads, similar to Miller's text, "Louis Probasco was a young employee in the Brooklyn Water Works, was probably the son of Samuel Probasco, and was listed as a cooper in the Brooklyn Directory of 1861–1862. See Whitman's letter from January 16, 1863."

--Katie Kruger