Friday, August 30, 2019

Removed Brainard marginalia

I have removed John Brainard's Occasional Pieces of Poetry (1825) from the list of documents with Whitman's marginalia, based on a discovery by Lynne Farrington and Peter Stallybrass that the markings in this volume were almost certainly forgeries of Whitman's handwriting.

~ Nikki

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Corrected transcription in Complete Prose Works

Ed noticed an error in our transcription of Whitman's Complete Prose Works. On page 137, we were missing an em-dash between the words "not" and "takes" in the past paragraph on that page. The error has been corrected.

- Kevin

Monday, August 19, 2019

Error corrected in Memoranda During the War

Ken noticed an error in our transcription of Memoranda During the War. On page 54, a sentence read, "What you saw is not the real monument." It should have read, "That you saw is not the real monument." The error has been corrected.

- Kevin

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Error corrected in Complete Prose Works

A user, Dr. Richard A. Nanian, alerted us of an error in Whitman's Complete Prose Works. A the top of page 34, our transcription had read "day more, and so on for many days, the rate of 1000 a day. Quite often they arrive at" whereas the original text reads, "day more, and so on for many days. Quite often they arrive at the rate of 1000 a day." We have corrected the error, and thank Professor Nanian for alerting us to its presence.

- Kevin

Monday, August 5, 2019

Corrected typo in "Little Bells at Night"

Ed Folsom alerted me to the fact that our transcription of this poem printed in a periodical (https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/poems/per.00077) had "long-strech'd" for "long-stretch'd." I have made the correction.

~ Brett