Typo correction in deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass

I happened to notice that two words were run together in our transcription of section #33 of "Song of Myself." What was "beaver patsthe mud" is now "beaver pats the mud."

~Brett

Site Tour Added

The site tour that Eric Conrad put together has been published in the "About" section. I've also added a link from the Archive's homepage.

~ Brett

correspondence TEI updated

I have updated the TEI files for approximately 300 pieces of
Reconstruction correspondence. No changes should be apparent on the
live site. The changes to the encoding of the files is in preparation
for publishing annotations for the Reconstruction letters.

~Liz

New scribal documents posted

Earlier today, I posted 125 additional scribal documents, bringing the
total number of scribal documents available to nearly 400. As part of
this update, I also revised language on the scribal documents index
page to reflect (changing "nearly 2,000" to "nearly 2,400").

~Liz

Encoding of "So Long!" in 1860 LG corrected

Ken noticed that the typeface of the first two lines on p. 452 was different from everything else, and on investigating I discovered that those lines had been put into their own, unnumbered linegroup. I've now revised so that they are correctly grouped with the other lines in linegroup #3. The typeface is now consistent
~ Brett

Addition to "support" page and tweak to the "overview" of the Whitman Archive

Today I added Sterling Publishing to the list of Friends supporting the Whitman Archive.

In addition, I added a mention of the most recent NHPRC grant to our page offering an overview of the Whitman Archive.
            --Ken

annotation revised in a Civil War letter from Thomas Jefferson Whitman

Per Wesley Raabe's suggestion, the third annotation in Thomas Jefferson Whitman's 4 June 1865 letter has been revised from

"As Jeff indicates, this was not the first time some of these children had contributed to Whitman's hospital work. On January 26, 1863, Moses Lane sent Whitman $15.20, including five cents from Willie Durkee and fifteen cents from Miss Kate Lane. Moses Lane commented that these contributors were the only ones "thus far that will have to deny themselves anything" on account of their gifts. Crany may have sent Whitman money in 1863 and 1864 (see Jeff's letters to Walt from April 3, 1863 and March 11, 1864)."

to

"These surnames also appear in the postscript to Walt Whitman's "The Great Washington Hospitals: Life Among Fifty Thousand Sick Soldiers.—Cases of Brooklyn Men" (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 19, 1863: 2). One of the children, Kate Lane, is the daughter of Moses E. Lane. A second is Willie Durkee, presumably the son of the man listed as "E. R. Durkee" in Whitman's postscript. The child of Charles E. Crary ("Crany" in Jeff's letter) has not been identified. As Jeff indicates, this was not the first time some of these children had contributed to Whitman's hospital work. On January 26, 1863, Moses Lane sent Whitman $15.20, including five cents from Willie Durkee and fifteen cents from Miss Kate Lane. Moses Lane commented that these contributors were the only ones "thus far that will have to deny themselves anything" on account of their gifts. Crany may have sent Whitman money in 1863 and 1864 (see Jeff's letters to Walt from April 3, 1863 and March 11, 1864)."

~Janel

essay added to articles and interviews section

Ken Price's essay "Editing Whitman in the Digital Age" has been posted in the "Articles and Interviews about the Archive" section.

~Janel

correction to correspondence annotation

A note has been revised in Whitman's Civil War correspondence. The annotation formerly read: "The poet praised O'Connor in the preface to a posthumous collection of his tales: 'He was born sample here in the 19th century of the flower and symbol of olden time first-class knighthood. Thrice blessed be his memory!'"

The faulty phrase is "was born sample." The O'Connor volume is very rare, but Google Books has Complete Prose Works, which has an alternate and more sensible version of the quote.

The annotation has been revised to say: "The poet praised O'Connor in the preface to a posthumous collection of his tales: 'He was a born sample here in the 19th century of the flower and symbol of olden time first-class knighthood. Thrice blessed be his memory!" (Complete Prose Works [New York, D. Appleton, 1910] pp.0513)."

This change affects the following letters: loc.00759, loc.00773, loc.00868, loc.00875, loc.00941, loc.00942, loc.00946, loc.00947, loc.01007, loc.01818, med.00316, med.00323, med.00324, nyp.00171, nyp.00189, nyp.00197, nyp.00210, pml.00015, tex.00121

~Janel

typo corrected in a note for a contemporary review

"Forthnightly Review" has been changed to "Fortnightly Review" in the second note of this anonymous contemporary review (http:whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00194.html)

~Janel

typo corrected in Polish translation of "Poets to Come"

In the last stanza of Marta Swara's translation of "Chants Democratic 14" (1860), a Polish character "ą" was mistaken for "š." All instances of "š" in the final stanza have been replaced with correct character, "ą."

~Janel

typo corrected in Italian translation of "Poets to Come"

The word "girolando" has been changed to "girandolando" in the seventh line of the following transcription: Gamberale's 1890  (http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/poets/italian/tei/med.00457.html).

~Janel

new scribal documents posted

I have published approximately 350 new scribal documents on the site. In addition, I updated metadata for the following files, to give full names (as opposed to initials) for recipients in the TEI header: nar.01203, nar.01534, nar.01684, nar.01905, nar.01355, nar.00531, nar.01372, nar.00884, nar.01148, nar.01716, nar.01803, nar.01816, nar.00233, nar.02560, nar.01204.

Many people contributed to the editing and publication of these files, including Anthony Dreesen, Nima Kianfar, Kevin McMullen, John Schwaninger, Joshua Ware, and Ken Price.

~Liz

Changes to Translations materials; updates to staff page

We have made two changes to the "Poets to Come" materials in the Translations section of the site:

Eric Athenot and Blake Bronson-Bartlett rewrote paragraphs three and four of "Whitman futur, ou l'avenir à venir: 'Poets to Come' in French Translation." The two paragraphs now refer to Bazalgette's first translation of "Poets to Come," from the first edition of his complete French translation of Leaves of Grass, instead of the translation from the second, revised edition.

I have corrected the date given for Conte's translation of "Poets to Come" in the Italian section of the "Poets to Come" materials. The index page to the Italian translations mistakenly listed Conte's translation as 1886. The date of Conte's translation was correct elsewhere within the "Poets to Come" materials.

Finally, I have updated the Staff page, to reflect changes and additions to the staff for the 2012-2013 academic year.

~Liz

Corrected error in Memoranda

In the "The Millions Dead" section of Memoranda (page 56), I inserted the word "by" into the phrase "15,000 inhumed by strangers."

- Kevin

An inconsistency in our transliteration of Russian has been fixed

A Russian scholar, Russell Valentino, has pointed out an inconsistency in our transliteration of Russian on this page: http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/russian/index.html . To deal with this inconsistency, we have updated all occurrences of the word "Pobiegi" to "Pobegi".

~Janel

Editorial Statement for Translations Updated

With the publication of the "Poets to Come" materials, I have updated the section of the Editorial Policy Statement and Procedures document relevant to translations (section D).

~Liz

New Materials Added to the Translations Section of the Archive

As noted on the Whitman Archive on Friday, August 31:

With the support of the Obermann Center at the University of Iowa, we've revised and expanded the Translations section of the Archive, which now includes more than thirty versions of Whitman's "Poets to Come" in five languages, as well as original translations of "Chants Democratic 14" from the 1860 Leaves. To learn more about the "Poets to Come" project, visit the Translations page and read Ed Folsom's "Translating 'Poets to Come': An Introduction."

The addition of this new material coincides with other changes to the architecture and arrangement of the Archive. Notably, the new section, Translations, replaces the Editions Printed Outside the U.S. section, which previously included full-length translations of Whitman as well as British editions. The British editions are now available via the new Books by Whitman section of the Archive. This change is one of several to Published Works, which formerly included sections for Leaves of Grass, other books by Whitman, periodicals, and editions of Whitman published outside the United States. The revamped Published Works now includes Books by Whitman, Periodicals, and Translations. In the coming months, we will continue to work with the Books by Whitman section to improve navigation through the materials.

These new materials and the changes described above went live on August 31, 2012.

Since August 31, we've made several small changes within the "Poets to Come" section: Acute accents in Matt Cohen's translation of "Chants Democratic 14" were inadvertently rendered as grave accents; these have been fixed. In Marina Camboni's translation of "Chants Democratic 14," in the last line of the first stanza, "giustificare me" was incorrectly presented as one word, "giustificareme," and a space was missing between "chi," and "lontano" on the first line of the third stanza. Also, in Camboni's introduction to Italian translations of "Poets to Come" the phrase, "Schietta, as a qualifier of stirpe" previously spelled "stirpe" as "stripe." All of these errors have been corrected.

More than a dozen people contributed to this work (in no particular order): Marta Skwara, Marina Camboni, Caterina Bernardini, Walter Grünzweig, Vanessa Steinroetter, Eric Athenot, Matt Cohen, Blake Bronson-Bartlett, Ed Folsom, Ken Price, Nikki Gray, Rey Rocha, Janel Cayer, Nima Najafi Kianfar, Eder Jaramillo, Grace Thomas, Kyle Barton, Eric Conrad, and Janel Cayer.

~Liz

typo corrected in review

I have corrected a typo in our transcription of Peter Bayne's review of Whitman, "Walt Whitman's Poems," The Contemporary Review  (December 1875): 49-69. In the first paragraph, the phrase "English public" had been mistranscribed as "English pubic." This error was brought to our attention by Archive user Marina Camboni.

~Liz

Five new pieces of journalism now available

I have added five new pieces to Whitman's Journalism. The pieces include:

"Return of a Brooklyn Veteran," Brooklyn Daily Union 16 March 1865: [3].
"An Old Landmark Gone," Brooklyn Daily Eagle 9 October 1862: [2].
"What Stops the General Exchange of Prisoners of War?" Brooklyn Daily Eagle 27 December 1864: [2].
"A Brooklyn Soldier, and a Noble One," Brooklyn Daily Eagle 19 January 1865: [2].
"Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present," Daily Standard 28 December 1861: [unknown].

A number of people, including Sarah Walker, Liz McClurg, Janel Cayer, Ed Folsom, and Eric Conrad, worked on transcription, encoding, annotating, checking, and xslt for the pieces.

~Liz

two changes to editorial note for periodical printing of "Time to Come"

I have slightly revised the Publication Information statement and an editorial note for the periodical printing of "Time to Come" (http://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/poems/per.00057). As previously worded, the notes were potentially confusing about first publication and what printings were being referred to.

Previously, the notes read:
Publication Information

"Time to Come."  The New York Aurora  9 April 1842:  [1].  Revised version of "Our Future Lot," which first appeared in the Long-Islander sometime before 31 October 1838 (the relevant copies of the Long-Islander are no longer extant). More specific information about the Long-Islander printing is unknown at this time. "Our Future Lot" was reprinted in the Long Island Democrat on 31 October 1838. When published as "Time to Come" in the Aurora, the poem appeared with the notation "From the Democratic Review." To date, however, we have not been able to verify that it was originally published there.

Notes
In its first printing printing, "Time to Come" included a typographical error in the first line of the fourth stanza, where the poem reads "wili" instead of "will."


The text now reads:
Publication Information

"Time to Come."  The New York Aurora  9 April 1842:  [1].  Revised version of "Our Future Lot," which first appeared in the Long-Islander sometime before 31 October 1838 (the relevant copies of the Long-Islander are no longer extant). More specific information about the Long-Islander printing is unknown at this time. "Our Future Lot" was reprinted in the Long Island Democrat on 31 October 1838. When published as "Time to Come" in the Aurora, the poem appeared with the notation "From the Democratic Review." To date, however, we have not been able to verify that it was published there.

Notes
In this printing, "Time to Come" includes a typographical error in the first line of the fourth stanza, where the poem reads "wili" instead of "will."

~Liz

Note in Whitman's "Fifty-first New-York City Veterans" revised

Per Ed and Eric's recommendations, part of note 21 in Whitman's "Fifty-first New-York City Veterans" has been revised to say: "Burnside was fired for these tactical errors." Previously, the note read "Burnside was fired for his role in this events' tactical errors".

~Janel

Edits to With Walt Whitman in Camden introduction

Matt and Ken spotted a couple of typos and infelicities, which I've now remedied.

~ Brett

With Walt Whitman in Camden introduction updated

To reflect the fact that With Walt Whitman in Camden is now available in full and to update the staff credits, Matt Cohen has revised the introduction, which I've uploaded here.

 ~ Brett

Additional Pratt letters linked to select Civil War correspondence

Our transcriptions of Whitman's Reconstruction-era letters to or about Alfred Pratt have been linked in the first note for each of the following Civil War letters: loc.00606, loc.00842, loc.00843, and loc.00845. These notes previously pointed users to Miller's correspondence volumes for letters pertaining to Pratt that fell outside of the Civil War years. Since these later letters are now published on the site, we have revised these notes to indicate that.

~Janel

Bibliography page revision

Per Ed's recommendation, the bibliography instructions have been revised to include more clear instructions for searching on words with diacritical marks. The instructions formerly read as follows: "We attempt to display the correct diacritical marks for foreign-language entries. When entering foreign-language entries, you may enter letters without diacritical marks ("u" instead of "ü", for example); the results will display the correct marks." The revised section now reads: Users searching for authors and titles containing diacritical marks: Do not use diacritical marks when searching the Walt Whitman Archive bibliography. Simply enter all letters without diacritical marks ("Grunzweig" instead of "Grünzweig", for example).

This change can be viewed at the following url: http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/bibliography/index.html.

~Janel

WWA IDs of two pieces of correspondence changed

Two pieces of correspondence, Walt Whitman to Walbridge A. Field, 11 May 1870 and Walt Whitman to Amos Tappan Akerman, 9 January 1871, were inadvertently given the same Whitman Archive ID as two scribal documents. Walt Whitman to Walbridge A. Field, 11 May 1870, formerly nar.00004, has the new Whitman Archive ID nar.03604, and Walt Whitman to Amos Tappan Akerman, 9 January 1871, formerly nar.00005, has the new Whitman Archive ID nar.03605. All scribal documents are now recorded in the project database, which enforces unique IDs, so there should be no further instances of this problem with regard to items at the National Archives. I have updated the relevant published files, including nar.03604, nar.03605, and the correspondence Index page, http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/index.html

~Liz

South Carolina EAD entry updated

Joel Myerson sent Ken Price images of a new Whitman poetry manuscript that is part of the Myerson Collection at the University of South Carolina. The images have been processed, a database entry for the manuscript has been created (usc.00003), and South Carolina's EAD file has been updated so that the manuscript appears in the Integrated Finding Guide. The one-leaf manuscript, titled "Annex at 69," contains titles for a contemplated cluster of poems - "Annex at 69" and "Fancies at Navesink & other pieces 1883 to 88."

- Kevin

Correction made to transcription of 1855 Leaves

Ed Folsom noticed that our transcription of the 1855 Leaves of Grass contained an discrepancy with the image of the page. Our transcription of page 56, three lines from the end, read "Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged," but the image shows the text to read "Failing to fetch me me at first keep encouraged (the double "me" being a typo which appears in all known copies of the 1855 Leaves). I have added an extra "me" to our transcription to correspond with this typo. The change can be found here: http://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1855/whole.html

- Kevin

New Critical Texts Added; Page Images for Leaves of Grass Imprints Available

PDFs of 19 books from the University of Iowa Press Whitman series are now available on a slightly revamped Selected Criticism page: http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/index.html (several of the works are available as both PDF and HTML). In addition to these new book-length studies, also now available is an essay by Ken Price, "Love, War, and Revision in Whitman's Blue Book." To accommodate these additions, the introductory text of the page has been slightly revised. In addition, the underlying page code is now a TEI file dynamically transformed to HTML.

Yesterday (June 21, 2012), we added page images of Leaves of Grass Imprints, accessible via the U.S. Editions of Leaves of Grass page, http://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/index.html, or directly here: http://whitmanarchive.org/published/imprints/images/index.html Introductory text to Leaves of Grass Imprints is forthcoming.

Finally, the "About" text linked from the Blue Book entry of U. S. Editions of Leaves of Grass page now points to Price's "Love, War, and Revision in Whitman's Blue Book." (Previously, this link pointed to an entry from the Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. That entry is still accessible here: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_84.htm)

~Liz

Volume 2 of With Walt Whitman in Camden added

With the publication of this volume, this work is now available in its entirety. Kudos to Matt Cohen and his many assistants over the years.

~ Brett

date corrected for Whitman photograph

On May 15, 2012, I corrected a date error for one of the Whitman Archive photographs. (Ken Price identified the error.) Although the individual record view for image 017 correctly dated the photograph to 1863, in the gallery/index view the image 017 was identified as dating to 1861. Both dates now read "1863."

--Liz

Additional Reconstruction Correspondence Now Available / Correction to Existing Letter

I have published an additional 173 pieces of Reconstruction Correspondence this morning, bringing the total number of Reconstruction-era letters to approximately 450.

In addition, I updated the location information for nyp.00300--previously published on the Archive--to standardize the citation for the Oscar Lion collection.

~Liz

New review now available

A review of William Michael Rossetti's Poems by Walt Whitman published in the Saturday Review of March 18, 1876 is now available via the Contemporary Reviews section of the archive or directly here. Bev Rilett transcribed and encoded the review, and Kevin McMullen and John Schwaninger contributed as well.

~Liz

Civil War Journalism Now Available

I have posted nineteen pieces of Whitman's Civil War journalism. They are available at http://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/index.html

As part of this work, I have revised the Periodicals index page as well as the Published Works index page to include links to the journalism. In addition, I have revised the introductory text on the Periodicals index page.

~Liz

Typo correction in 1860 "Proto-Leaf"

User Ruth Martin alerted us to the mistranscription of "meditate" as "mediate." I have now corrected.

~ Brett

Correction of typo in LG 1860 table of contents

Having been alerted to it by Tim Jackson, I've corrected the transcription of the title "To Other Lands" from "To Other Lauds."

~ Brett

Corrected typo in Saturday Review's review of LG 1855 (15 March 1856)

Tim Jackson drew my attention to a missing space between words in this file (anc.00022). I have now supplied it.

~ Brett

"Had I the Choice" manuscript line segment restored

Tim Jackson pointed out that our rendering of this manuscript (yal.00040) omitted the end of the line that begins "Homer with all his wars and loftiest." Though these words were present in the source XML, they weren't being displayed because of an odd sequence of elements within the line. I have adjusted that sequence, and the full line now appears correctly.

~ Brett

Vols. 6 & 7 of With Walt Whitman in Camden added

I've added these texts (along with associated metadata) and created links from the index page for With Walt Whitman in Camden.

~ Brett

Correspondence Editorial Policy Updated

I have revised the editorial policy and procedures statement for correspondence, so that it reflects our current practices, particularly in regard to treatment of the Reconstruction-era letters. The changes made to the editorial policy primarily deal with the placement of editorial commentary and metadata in the HTML view. In addition, the new policy indicates that we are in the process of transcribing and encoding letterhead. In the past, we did not treat letterhead.

~Liz

Reconstruction-era Letters Now Available

As of late afternoon on April 17, 2012, approximately 275 pieces of Reconstruction-era correspondence are now publicly available on the Whitman Archive. We continued to slightly revise some of the letters, as well as their HTML display, between their publication on the site late yesterday afternoon and early this morning (April 18, 2012). We hope to publish another 300 pieces in the near future. All 1,200 pieces of Reconstruction-era correspondence will be available by early fall.

The publication of these letters was made possible by the support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission as well as by the hard work of many people, including Eric Conrad, Zachary King, Sarah Walker, Katie Kruger, Bev Rilett, John Schwaninger, Ashley Lawson, Kevin McMullen, and Ken Price. An even greater number of people are hard at work on forthcoming installments.

As we explain in the text that precedes the links to individual letters, you will notice some differences between the presentation of the Civil War letters that have been available for a couple of years now and the new Reconstruction letters. In addition to posting more Reconstruction letters over the coming months, we will work to make these two sets of correspondence consistent in both encoding and display by updating the Civil War letters.

~Liz

Overview page updated

We have updated the overview page in the About the Archive section of the site. We have tweaked the description to reflect our recent posting of notebooks from the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia. We have also included a discussion of how the latest grant from NEH fits into our overall work.

--Ken

Three notebook transcriptions + images added

I've created a new index page for full transcriptions of notebooks, with links to three of them: loc.00484, uva.00053, and uva.00062.

~ Brett

Info. about Audio Recording Added to FAQ

I've added to the FAQ information about the copyright status of the voice recording.

~ Brett

Breadcrumbs updated

I have updated the breadcrumbs throughout the Archive. The breadcrumbs now work throughout all sections of the Archive, with the exception of the Resources section. Changes to the Resources breadcrumbs are forthcoming.

~Janel

Banner headings updated throughout the Archive

I have updated the headings in the gray banner throughout the Archive. The purpose of these changes was to make the banner consistent across the site. At any page of the Archive, the banner now always shows the main section heading (e.g., Published Works, In Whitman's Hand, etc.) and, when appropriate, the main sub-heading (e.g., within Published Works, either Books or Periodicals).

~Janel

Another 1,100 scribal documents made available

John Schwaninger, Nima Kian, Kevin McMullen, Anthony Dreesen, Liz Lorang, and I have combined efforts to add another 1,100 scribal documents to the Whitman Archive.
--Ken

Contributor's name supplied for London Sun review

On this index

http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/index.html

and in the corresponding TEI file

http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00067.html

 

I changed "Anonymous" to "Kent, William Charles Mark," as the author of the review, "Walt Whitman's Poems." The London Sun (17 April 1868): 31490.

Edward Dowden in his Walt Whitman and his English Critics claims that his friend Charles Kent [William Charles Mark Kent, 1823-1902] wrote this review, and that William Michael Rossetti confirmed this information.

-Bev Rilett

Additional correction made to Temple Bar review notes

For this review:  http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00195.html#r1 I inserted an asterisk symbol for the author's note, and renumbered the editorial notes to begin at 1 instead of 2. I checked my changes against the original (paper copy of the review in our files--green folder).
--Bev

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of the Rossetti edition of Leaves of Grass

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of the Rossetti edition of Leaves of Grass,
http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/index.html and the original TEI files as follows:

·  Changed author name "Anonymous" to "Austin, Alfred" and changed title of journal, "Temple Bar" to its full name, "Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers" on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00195.html as identified in the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.

· Changed author name "Anonymous" to "Earle, John Charles" and changed title of review from "Poems by Walt Whitman" to "Poems by Walt Whitman [Part 1]" on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00197.html according to the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.

· Changed author name "Anonymous" to "Earle, John Charles" and changed title of review from "Poems by Walt Whitman" to "Poems by Walt Whitman [Part 2]" on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00198.html according to the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of 1860 Leaves of Grass

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of 1860 Leaves of Grass, http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/index.html and the original TEI files for each review as follows:

Changed author from [Anonymous] to [Call, Wathen Mark Wilks] on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/anc.00050.html because the Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals lists Call as the contributor of this review.

Changed the name of the periodical from London Review to its full name, the London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Society, Literature, and Art on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/anc.00235.html. According to the Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals, the London Review was actually a different periodical in existence for one year only—1829.

--Bev Rilett

Typo corrected in Civil War letter

The typo "snood" in the Letter from Fred B. McReady to Walt Whitman, 29 April 1863 has been changed to "snoot." The phrase now reads: "when a fellowed pluged you in the snoot instead of hitting back give him another try."

~Janel

Corrections to stylesheet and transcription files for Leaves 1891-92

User Mario Corona alerted us to the absence of the bracketed note in the display of "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" (Leaves 1891-92), and an investigation turned up several similar omissions, which I traced to the stylesheet. I have added a template for authorial notes in the XSLT stylesheet. I also noticed that the horizontal separators for the couple of footnotes in the 1891-92 edition were missing, so I added the appropriate code to the TEI file and created a template in the XSLT stylesheet to display them.

~ Brett

revision made to 2 contemporary reviews of the Specimen Days and Collect (Index and corresponding TEI files)

On the Contemporary Reviews of Specimen Days (index and TEI files, I changed "Anonymous" in this entry
[Anonymous]. "[Review of Specimen Days and Collect]." Westminster Review n.s. 64 (July 1883) 287-91 to "Call, Wathen Mark Wilks" as attributed in the Wellesley Index (DNB: Wathen Mark Wilks, 1817-1890, misc. author. Venn.) Note that Call also is credited with writing an 1860 review of Leaves of Grass.

Also, I have substituted "Metcalfe, William Musham" for "Anonymous" here: [Anonymous]. "Walt Whitman. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1881–82), Specimen Days and Collect, and Poems of Walt Whitman]" Scottish Review (September 1883): 281-300.  The Wellesley Index credits: Metcalfe, William Musham, 1840-1916, editor Scot Rev.Who Was Who, A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards

-Bev Rilett

Revision made to 3 contemporary reviews of the 1855 Leaves of Grass (Index and corresponding TEI files)

• [Eliot, George]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review n.s. 9 (1 April 1856): 343-56. was changed to The Westminster Review. (The two journals were briefly combined in 1846 before the Foreign Quarterly Review ceased publication; in 1856 the journal was titled The Westminster Review.)

              The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 definitely attributes authorship to George Eliot.

• Anonymous]. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)]." The Dublin Review 41 (September 1856): 267-8.

  The Wellesley Index lists contributor as: Bagshawe, Henry Ridgard, 1799-1870, barrister, ed. 

• [Lewes, George Henry (?)]. "Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry." The Leader 7 (7 June 1856): 547-8. changed author to [Lewes, George Henry or Eliot, George].
• According to George Eliot: A Biographical History, (William Baker and John C. Ross, eds., pub by Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2002), George Eliot "provided a string of relatively short articles and reviews for the Leader published between 17 March 1855 and 30 August 1856 (421); and that "Between March 1855 and August 1856, George Eliot recorded payment for 21 articles for the Leader, at 1££,1s apiece" [Journal 58, 54-65] (428). George Eliot is known to have written George Henry Lewes's regular columns for the Leader in the spring of 1855, and she definitely wrote "The Poets and Poetry of America" for the Leader [VII (1 March 1856): 306] (434), but which of the two wrote this June 1856 review of Walt Whitman is not definitely established.

-Bev Rilett

Italics added

The following line is italicized in Whitman's "Old Chants" on page 414 of the 1891-92 Leaves of Grass: "And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet." (See http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/383.) This correction has been made thanks to Mario Corona's copy-editing suggestion. ~Katie Kruger

typo corrected: Kenneth M. Price's article, "Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?"

The typo "situ.ating" from the sentence, "This will begin to better place him in a world context rather than situ.ating him solely in Anglophone culture", has been corrected to "situating". ~Katie Kruger

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