Edits to Scribal Documents and Correspondence index pages

On the scribal documents index
(http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/scribal/index.html), I updated
the TEI encoding of three dates, which had erroneously been given in
an attribute value as dating to 1872. The scribal document records
updated in the index file were:

Amos T. Akerman to Henry Grebe, 2 August 1871
Amos T. Akerman to William P. Appleby, 2 or 3 August 1871
Amos T. Akerman to John H. Caldwell, 3 August 1871


In addition, I made two corrections to the correspondence index
(http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/index.html).
The index listed Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, [5 January
1872] as dating only to Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman,
[January 1872] and Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, [27 September 1868] as
only Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, [September 1868]. The dates are now
correct on the index page (they already were correct in the individual
letter files).

~Liz

All 170 letters of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to her son Walt now added to the site

The letters of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman have been made publicly available on the Whitman Archive. In addition to 170 letters from the period 1860 to 1873, the Archive also includes Wesley Raabe's extensive introduction to Louisa's letters. The publication of these materials, which coincides with Women's History Month, is the culmination of many years of work and marks a major addition to the Whitman Archive. The letters illuminate the most important relationship in the poet's life and offer a rare glimpse into the emotional life of a working-class nineteenth-century American woman.

The letters are accessible at http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/ and Wesley's introduction is at: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/lvvwintro.html

            --Ken

Update made to correspondence index page

I have added a sentence to the correspondence index page that includes a link to the statement of editorial policy.

~ Nikki