Thursday, August 17, 2023

Typo correction in encyclopedia entry for Democratic Review

Matt Cohen noticed that the first occurrence of the name of John L. O'Sullivan had been misspelled. I have corrected.

~ Brett

Friday, August 11, 2023

Miscellaneous transcription errors corrected in Complete Prose Works

In looking at the punctuation in this volume, I noticed a hyphenation error on p. 56, as well as errors in the transcription of ellipses on pp. 28, 443, and 444. These are now corrected. In addition, I did a fresh and thorough proofreading of the table of contents, correcting the transcriptions of ellipses between titles on the same page as well as a dozen or more other character-level transcription errors.

~ Brett

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Small typo corrected in subtitles of "Sun-Down Papers" 6, 7, 8, and 9

 The word "desk" had been mistakenly capitalized in the subtitles in per.00306, per.00307, per.00309, and per.00313; I have corrected to lowercase.

~ Brett

Typos corrected on Sun-Down Papers index page

 I noticed that "Hempstead" had been misspelled "Hemstead" in several places on the About/Index page for the "Sun-Down Papers" (per.00375). I have corrected.

~ Brett

Corrected typo in note for Brooklyniana #35

 I noticed that note #5 had "quotatins" for "quotations." I have corrected this.

~ Brett

Corrected date of Brooklyniana #7

 I noticed that this had been mistakenly dated 18 January 1862. I have correct this to 25 January 1862.

~ Brett