tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56528467535935552162024-03-13T12:29:33.779-05:00Walt Whitman Archive Changelogwhitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.comBlogger663125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-1522436257971972812023-09-27T16:12:00.000-05:002023-09-27T16:12:14.586-05:00Updated language for crediting of correspondence annotations<p> In order to more accurately reflect how annotations are written and adapted for the correspondence, we have updated the language that appears in the metadata at the top of certain transcription files. For letters in which we have incorporated and adapted annotations that appeared in other sources, we now say:</p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #242d35; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #242d35; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Notes for this letter were created by<span> </span></span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #242d35; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Whitman Archive</em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #242d35; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span> </span>staff and/or were derived from<span> </span></span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #242d35; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman</em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #242d35; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, ed. Dennis Berthold and Kenneth M. Price (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1984), and supplemented or updated by<span> </span></span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #242d35; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Whitman Archive</em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #242d35; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span> </span>staff.</span></blockquote><p>The citation changes, of course, depending on the source.</p><p>- Kevin <br /></p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #242d35; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><p></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-86534211898883789162023-09-27T16:03:00.003-05:002023-09-27T16:03:38.729-05:00Typo corrected in installment of "Manly Health"<p> Stefan Schoeberlein noticed that there was a typo in the <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00427.html">October 10, 1858, installment</a> of "Manly Health and Training." A section of the text should read "the Esseans, a sect of Jews, are said to have very commonly..." but on our site read "the Esseans, a sect of Jews, are to said to have very commonly..." I have corrected the error. Thanks to Stefan for pointing out the error.<br /></p><p>- Kevin<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-68563512203236070552023-09-22T11:01:00.002-05:002023-09-22T11:01:42.780-05:00Corrected year in "Notes on Whitman's Photographers"<p> In the entry for Jeremiah Gurney and Son in our <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/gallery/photographers.html">"Notes on Whitman's Photographer's,"</a> we stated that Gurney's gallery on Broadway in New York opened in 1858, when it actually opened in 1857. We have corrected the error. Thanks to Samantha Gilmore for noting the error.</p><p>- Kevin<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-47073168671843223772023-08-17T14:46:00.004-05:002023-08-17T14:46:27.706-05:00Typo correction in encyclopedia entry for Democratic Review<p>Matt Cohen noticed that the first occurrence of the name of John L. O'Sullivan had been misspelled. I have corrected.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-58917992276485513462023-08-11T17:22:00.002-05:002023-08-11T17:22:49.081-05:00Miscellaneous transcription errors corrected in Complete Prose Works<p>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.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-70652760359015746992023-08-10T13:59:00.003-05:002023-08-11T17:23:31.976-05:00Small typo corrected in subtitles of "Sun-Down Papers" 6, 7, 8, and 9<p> 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.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-66000936623477324142023-08-10T13:54:00.003-05:002023-08-11T17:23:03.988-05:00Typos corrected on Sun-Down Papers index page <p> 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.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-27405837257459822422023-08-10T13:51:00.005-05:002023-08-10T13:51:35.799-05:00Corrected typo in note for Brooklyniana #35<p> I noticed that note #5 had "quotatins" for "quotations." I have corrected this.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-63804121930950243162023-08-10T13:48:00.001-05:002023-08-11T17:23:51.330-05:00Corrected date of Brooklyniana #7<p> I noticed that this had been mistakenly dated 18 January 1862. I have correct this to 25 January 1862.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-9249841615307815222023-07-26T08:28:00.001-05:002023-07-26T08:28:54.627-05:00Character encoding error in "Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman"<p>Ken spotted an unusual character showing as the separator between dates in a reference to the third edition of <i>Leaves of Grass. </i>I have corrected this to an en-dash.</p><p> ~ Brett<br /></p><p> <br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-31182875307213888172023-05-24T16:16:00.003-05:002023-05-24T16:16:33.912-05:00Broken link fixed on "Brother Jonathon" page<p> Ed noticed that the link to the poem "Death of the Nature-Lover" was broken on the <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/periodical_titles/per.00160">index page about the <i>Brother Jonathan</i> periodical</a>. It has been fixed.</p><p>- Kevin<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-22116917417958600772023-04-18T10:48:00.003-05:002023-04-18T10:48:51.585-05:00Correction made to piece of Burroughs/Whitman correspondence<p><i> </i>A <i>Whitman Archive</i> user noticed an error in our transcription of <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.01122.html">2 June 1873 letter from John Burroughs to Whitman</a>. At the end of the letter's first paragraph we had indicated an unclear reading of a location on Long Island: "Yaphank on [<span style="color: #999999;">Carmand?</span>] Ruin" has now been corrected to "Yaphank on Carmans River." We would like to thank user Margaret Guardi for pointing out this correction.</p><p>- Kevin<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-78904602664683018632023-03-23T17:27:00.001-05:002023-03-23T17:31:46.001-05:00Two line-end hyphens added to transcription of 1881-1882 Leaves of Grass<p>Ed noticed that our transcription was lacking two hyphens that are present in the images for p. 61. I have supplied them.</p><p><br /></p><p>~ Brett</p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-15902514794032846282023-03-23T17:24:00.001-05:002023-03-23T17:24:23.079-05:00Corrected link from photograph and revised information about photographers<p>Ed noticed that the page for <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/zzz.00096.html">"Walt Whitman by Frank P. Harned, ca. 1886 - ca. 1887"</a> (zzz.00096) linked to an old version of our "<a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/gallery/photographers.html">Notes on Whitman's Photographers</a>." He also provided updated information about the Edy Brothers, which I have incorporated into that page.</p><p><br /></p><p>~ Brett</p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-88577367966730124662023-01-04T12:32:00.004-06:002023-01-04T12:33:44.980-06:00Typo corrected in encyclopedia entry for "Autumn Rivulets"<p> Ken noticed that the "d" was missing from the word "named" in the first sentence. Now corrected.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-19712683011740327402022-10-10T08:52:00.002-05:002022-10-10T08:52:19.087-05:00Corrections to 1881–82 Leaves of Grass transcription<p> Ed noticed two errors in the transcription for the 1881–82 <i>Leaves of Grass</i>. On page 381, in the poem "So Long," I have corrected "noticeabsorbing" to "notice absorbing" and added a hyphen in the penultimate line on that same page (in the middle of the word "muscle").</p><p>- Kevin<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-34164854871290268282022-09-30T14:46:00.001-05:002022-09-30T14:46:06.218-05:00New interview added<p>Rob Marland kindly alerted me to the existence of a heretofore uncollected Whitman interview in the Buffalo Express on 25 May 1890. I have finished transcribing, encoding, and proofreading, so I am publishing it to the interviews and reminiscences section.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-16751153716852807092022-09-26T12:36:00.006-05:002022-09-26T12:36:44.550-05:00Corrected typo on page about New-York Times<p> Stephanie noticed a typo in one of the bibliographic entries on the <i>Archive</i>'s <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/periodical_titles/per.00167">page about the <i>New-York Times</i>.</a> On that page, the title of the book by George H. Douglas was mistakenly listed as <i>The Golden Age of the Newspapper</i>. The spelling of the word "Newspaper" has been corrected.</p><p>- Kevin<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-54923438734616704602022-09-22T12:50:00.004-05:002022-09-22T12:50:31.604-05:00Two typo corrections in criticism section<p>Ken noticed that the encyclopedia entry for "A Broadway Pageant" had misspelled the title as "A Broadway Pagaent" and that an "s" was missing from the end of Fredson Bowers's name in a paragraph of Hershel Parker's "The Real 'Live Oak, with Moss': Straight Talk about Whitman's 'Gay Manifesto'" (anc.00157). These typos are now corrected.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-79768237867069050342022-09-13T12:06:00.001-05:002022-09-13T12:06:42.259-05:00Corrected several linegroup tags in 1881-1882 and 1891-1892 Leaves of Grass<p>User Alvaro Bernarde alerted us to six instances of <lg type="lingegroup"> in the deathbed edn. and to one instance in which <lg> had no @type. Because the 1881-1882 transcription originated from the same
source and therefore often shares problems with the 1891-1892 edition, I
also checked that file and found three instances of the first problem and one instance of <lg> with no @type. I have changed all of these to <lg type="linegroup">. </p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-86991221229151315582022-09-08T17:50:00.002-05:002022-09-08T17:50:24.144-05:00Added C19 podcast episode to "Articles and Interviews about the Archive" page<p>The Whitman Archive journalism grant team recently made a podcast which was accepted and published as part of C19's podcast series. The episode discussed the Archive's current grant to identify and edit Whitman's editorials in the <i>Brooklyn Daily Times</i>. I have added an entry for the podcast, and a link to it, on the <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/about/articles/index.html">"Articles and Interviews about the <i>Archive</i>"</a> page.</p><p>- Kevin<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-8465262504027991672022-07-01T18:46:00.002-05:002022-07-01T18:46:32.237-05:00Corrections to 1871-1872 and 1891-1892 Leaves of Grass transcriptions<p> Ken spotted a typo in the 1871-1872 "Respondez!" ("obscencly" for "obscenely" on p. 335). User Ira Chernus noticed that the last five poems of the "Fancies at Navesink" cluster were missing from the "individual poems and clusters" view of the 1891-1892 edition. I have corrected both errors.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-43294212858317378702022-06-29T11:17:00.005-05:002022-06-29T11:17:46.210-05:00Staff page updated<p> I updated the <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/about/staff.html">staff page</a> with the new summer GRAs at Iowa, as well as updates to the the staff from Nebraska.</p><p>- Kevin<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-7989607672751562242022-06-20T14:35:00.003-05:002022-06-20T14:35:48.281-05:00Corrected typo in 1881-1882 Leaves of Grass<p> Ed noticed that in our transcription of "Song of Myself," on p. 68, a space was missing between "in" and "collars." I have corrected this.</p><p>~ Brett<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652846753593555216.post-69290531907887399152022-03-08T13:42:00.003-06:002022-03-08T13:42:54.176-06:00Fixed broken link in "Interviews" index<p> Ashlyn noticed that there was a broken link on the <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/interviews/index.html">"Interviews" index page</a>. The link to <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/interviews/transcriptions/med.00017.html">James Scovel's "Walt Whitman: The Author of 'Leaves of Grass' at Home" (16 June 1885)</a> was broken (it was attempting to link to an incorrect item that was not in the interviews directory); I have fixed the problem.<br /></p><p>- Kevin<br /></p>whitmanarchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01408651242444761358noreply@blogger.com0