wwa-changelog

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

2012-01-30T13:28:00.001-06:00

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"

2012-01-17T13:03:00.001-06:00

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"

2012-01-16T11:16:00.001-06:00

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

Staff page updated

2011-12-22T16:21:00.001-06:00

Robert Gross has moved from the College of William & Mary to the University of Connecticut, so I have changed the staff page accordingly.

--Ken

Scribal documents now available and other changes

2011-12-22T15:09:00.000-06:00

The first installment of 800 previously unidentified government documents in Whitman's handwriting is now available on the Whitman Archive. In 2012, we will add more than 2,200 additional documents to this section of the Archive.

Along with the release of the scribal documents we have made a number of other changes to the Archive between December 21 and December 22, 2011:

The section of the Archive previously titled "Manuscripts" is now titled "In Whitman's Hand." This section includes Whitman's poetry manuscripts, scribal documents, and notebooks. We have moved the Integrated Guide to Whitman's poetry manuscripts and finding aids to Whitman's manuscripts at individual repositories to the Resources section of the site.
The section of the Archive previously titled "Biography & Correspondence" is now titled "Life & Letters."
The section of the Archive previously titled "Criticism" is now titled "Commentary."
We have made changes to the site-wide xslt files that generate headers and footers for the pages to account for these revised section names and to make the navigation consistent throughout the site.
We have modified a site-wide javascript file that generates the navigational breadcrumbs in order to take into account the revised section names and to make the navigation consistent.
We have updated the Archive's Editorial Policy statement to include the scribal documents. We also corrected a typographical error in the editorial policy statement, fixing "eXtenxible" to "eXtensible."
We have posted an updated version of the Spanish-language edition of Whitman's poetry, Álvaro Armando Vasseur's Poemas. The updated version is available both as an HTML rendering of our TEI-encoded XML and as an XML download. In 2012, we will migrate the encoding of the Vasseur text from the P4 TEI encoding standard to P5. At the time that we make the P5 version of the text available, we will also correct known issues in the HTML display of the text.
We have fixed a broken links with our breadcrumbs navigation in the Civil War Correspondence and With Walt Whitman in Camden sections of the site.

~Liz

Typo corrected in encyclopedia entry

2011-12-20T12:32:00.001-06:00

Archive user Andrew Rosa pointed out a typographical error in the encyclopedia entry for "Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition," which I have fixed. In the bibliography section, the citation for Ed Folsom's article, "What We're Still Learning about the 1855 Leaves of Grass 150 Years Later," previously read "What We're Still Leaning about the 1855 Leaves of Grass 150 Years Later."

~Liz

Complete Prose Works (1892): corrected footnote

2011-11-16T12:47:00.001-06:00

We have corrected the transcription of the footnote that runs in the bottom margin of pages 204-205 of Whitman's Complete Prose Works (1892) so that it appears in a pop-up page: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/other/ppp.00504.html?noteNumber=n19. Thanks to Carlos Elisio Nascimento da Silva for suggesting this correction.
-Katie Kruger

Civil War letter Archive ID updated

2011-11-15T11:38:00.001-06:00

The Civil War era Letter from Walt Whitman to Anson Ryder, Jr., 14 December 1866 was formerly held by a private collector. This letter is currently held in the Gay Wilson Allen Papers, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously prc.00001, the Archive ID for this letter is now duk.00531.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/prc.00001.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/duk.00531.html

~Janel

Middle initial changed in Whitman letter

2011-11-11T13:57:00.001-06:00

In our title to Whitman's March 29, 1860 letter to Abby Price, Price's middle initial was identified as "M." However, her middle initial is actually "H." The title of the letter has been revised to reflect this information.

~Janel

Civil War letter Archive ID updated

2011-10-27T13:11:00.001-05:00

The location of the Civil War era Letter from Alexander Gardner to Walt Whitman, 26 November 1866 was formerly unknown. This letter has since been located at the Library of Congress and it is currently held in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously med.00329, the Archive ID for this letter is now loc.02115.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/med.00329.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.02115.html

~Janel

Civil War letter Archive ID updated

2011-10-27T12:55:00.000-05:00

The location of the Civil War era Letter from Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, April 1866 was formerly unknown. This letter has since been located at Duke University and it is currently held in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously med.00328, the Archive ID for this letter is now duk.00388.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/med.00328.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/duk.00388.html

~Janel

Civil War letter Archive ID updated

2011-10-27T12:36:00.001-05:00

The location of the Civil War era Letter from William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 19 October 1865 was formerly unknown. This letter has since been located at the Library of Congress and it is currently held in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously med.00327, the Archive ID for this letter is now loc.01819.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/med.00327.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.01819.html

~Janel

Civil War letter Archive ID updated

2011-10-27T12:21:00.001-05:00

The location of the Civil War era Letter from William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 30 December 1864 was formerly unknown. This letter has since been located at the Library of Congress and it is currently held in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919. We have updated the Whitman Archive ID to reflect this information. Previously med.00325, the Archive ID for this letter is now loc.01818.

The old url for this item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/med.00325.html

The new url for this letter is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.01818.html

~Janel

Archive ID for a Feinberg poetry manuscript changed

2011-10-27T10:43:00.000-05:00

The Whitman Archive ID for the Feinberg poetry manuscript, "?Some Hours of a half Paralytic" has been changed in the Feinberg finding guide (http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/finding_aids/Library_of_Congress-Feinberg.html). The Archive ID for this manuscript was formerly loc.00307 and has since been changed to loc.03275.

Archive ID for a Civil War letter changed

2011-10-17T15:27:00.001-05:00

We had inadvertently given two objects the same Whitman Archive ID (loc.00847), although both were entered into the project database with different IDs. I've assigned one, Letter from William E. Babcock to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1865, a new Whitman Archive ID. Formerly loc.00847, the letter is now loc.01069.

The old url for the item was http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.00847.html

The current url is http://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/loc.01069.html

~Janel

Archive ID for a review changed

2011-10-10T16:24:00.001-05:00

We had inadvertently given two objects the same Whitman Archive ID (anc.00232), and neither were entered into the project database, so there were two documents on the Archive identified as anc.00232. I've assigned one, OBSERVER. "[Review of Leaves of Grass (1867)]." The Massachusetts Weekly Spy (2 November 1866): 1, a new Whitman Archive ID. Formerly anc.00232, the review is now anc.01069.

The old url for the item was http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1867/anc.00232.html

The current url is http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1867/anc.01069.html

~Liz

typo corrected in "Democratic Vistas" in the Complete Prose (1892)

2011-10-10T14:45:00.001-05:00

On page 203 of Whitman's "Democratic Vistas" in the Complete Prose (1892), the text erroneously had read, "America, filling the present with greatest deeds and problems, cheerfully accepting the past, including feudalism, (as, indeed, the present is but the legitimate birth of the past, including feudalism,) counts, as I reckon, for her justification and success, (for i who, as yet, dare claim success?)". The "(for i who)" ought to read "(for who)". I have made this minor correction to the xml/tei file ppp.00504. Thank you to Carlos Elisio Nascimento da Silva for bringing this error to our attention.

--Katie Kruger

Note added to letter from Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 31 March 1863

2011-10-10T13:17:00.001-05:00

A seemingly random "74" appeared in the body of the letter from Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 31 March 1863 (loc.00765), next to Probasco's name. This "74" corresponds with Edwin Haviland Miller's footnote 74 to the letter which appears on page 87 of the first volume of Whitman: The Correspondence (1842-1867). Miller's footnote reads, "See 31," which refers to the Letter from Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 16 January [1863] (wwh.00004), in which Whitman refers to Louis Probasco; on page 66, Miller offers the following footnote: "Louis Probasco, a young employee in the Brooklyn Water Works, probably the son of Samuel, listed as a cooper in the Brooklyn Directory of 1861-1862." I have therefore added the footnote 6 to this letter which reads, similar to Miller's text, "Louis Probasco was a young employee in the Brooklyn Water Works, was probably the son of Samuel Probasco, and was listed as a cooper in the Brooklyn Directory of 1861–1862. See Whitman's letter from January 16, 1863."

--Katie Kruger

typo corrected in Editorial Policy Statement

2011-09-26T15:02:00.000-05:00

I've corrected a typo in our Editorial Policy Statement, where "copyright" read "coypright" in one instance.

~Liz

revision made to note in letter from Walt Whitman to William S. Davis, 1 October 1863

2011-09-24T14:45:00.004-05:00

Note 3 in this letter was in the voice of the original editor, Edwin Haviland Miller, and said: "According to Whitman's notations, the material in this paragraph up to this point was to have been incorporated into the preceding paragraph. Since there are no indications in the manuscript as to where he intended to place it, I have transcribed literally." Now that the editing of Whitman's correspondence is being updated by the Whitman Archive staff, that "I" is misleading . Hence I've changed the last part of that note to read: "Since there are no indications in the manuscript as to where he intended to place it, the document has been transcribed literally."

--Ken

corrections made to letter from A. Van Rensellaer to Walt Whitman, 30 July 1865

2011-09-13T21:27:00.002-05:00

Originally our text for this letter was derived from Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden. After examining a photostat copy of the original manuscript in the special collections department at the University of Chicago, I made roughly a dozen small changes, mostly in punctuation, though I also added one word that had been dropped, and added emphasis in two places where underlining had been used by Van Rensellaer.

--Ken

transcription error in With Walt Whitman in Camden fixed

2011-09-02T08:44:00.001-05:00

In With Walt Whitman in Camden vol. 1, page 26, the word "received" had been transcribed as "recieved." I've corrected the error.

~Liz

transcription errors fixed in Nicholas D. Palmer letter

2011-07-11T14:07:00.001-05:00

Archive user Michael Horne alerted us to errors in our transcription of Nicholas D. Palmer's letter to Walt Whitman of 24 June, 1865. In the letter opener, I corrected "near Lewis" to "near Louisville," and in the closer of the letter, I corrected "88th" to "80th." I also fixed a transcription which had Palmer's misspelling "amediately" corrected to "immediately."

~Liz

author's name added to review

2011-07-11T13:46:00.001-05:00

While working on annotations for the Reconstruction-era correspondence, Zachary King at the University of Iowa noticed that Edwin Haviland Miller identifies the author of a review of Drum-Taps, published in the Commonwealth of 24 February 1866, as Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. The review was presented on the Whitman Archive as by "[Anonymous]." I checked the bibliography of criticism and noted that Sanborn is acknowledged elsewhere as the author of the review (including in Giantvalley and in Lee Gougeon's 1992 article in WWQR), so I updated the author information in the TEI file and on the index page of reviews of Drum-Taps.

~Liz

transcription error fixed in 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass

2011-07-11T13:16:00.000-05:00

Ken pointed out that our transcription of the poem title "Liberty Poem for Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Australia, Cuba, and The Archipelagoes of the Sea" mistranscribed "archipelagoes" as "archipelogoes" in the body of the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. I've fixed the error.

~Liz

Portuguese translation added

2011-07-05T09:53:00.000-05:00

I have added the Portuguese translation to the Whitman Archive's translation section and created an index page that links to the essay "Whitman in Brazil" by Maria Clara Bonetti Paro. A Portuguese translation of the introductory page is currently not available but forthcoming. The main index page to the translation section has been modified to reflect some of the changes discussed at the translation symposium in Iowa City, though the homepage's general structure has not been changed yet.

--Vanessa

Error fixed in 1860 Calamus poem 35

2011-06-23T08:52:00.000-05:00

I have added a missing "é" in line 5 of Calamus poem 35 in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Thanks to Mario Corona for pointing out the missing final letter in "exalté."

--Vanessa

Review of "Poems of Walt Whitman" added

2011-05-26T13:49:00.001-05:00

I added a review of Poems of Walt Whitman from The Australasian, July 4, 1868. The review can be found here:

http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/tei/anc.01048.html

--Ashley

Transcription error fixed in three reviews

2011-05-13T08:46:00.000-05:00

I have corrected a transcription error that was pointed out to us by a Whitman Archive user and that we were able to trace to three separate reviews of Two Rivulets:

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/rivulets/anc.00201.html
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/rivulets/anc.00203.html
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/rivulets/anc.00200.html

In each case, there was a typo in the fifth line of the poem "The Beauty of the Ship," and I corrected "at least the beauty" to read "at last the beauty."

--Vanessa

Publicity video added to the Whitman Archive

2011-04-28T14:48:00.001-05:00

I have added the 2004 publicity video about the Whitman Archive created by University Communications to the site. The video is available from the Articles and Interviews about the Archive page or directly here.

~Liz

Information about loc.00052 ("sorrow") corrected

2011-04-27T11:50:00.002-05:00

Both the TEI transcription of and EAD record for this manuscript were missing links to some of the page images. I've added those and corrected the information in the tracking database.
~Brett

Creative Commons License Added

2011-04-26T15:04:00.001-05:00

The Whitman Archive is now made available under a Creative Commons License. The homepage, Conditions of Use page, permission form, and the footer to all pages have been revised to reflect this change.

Criticism and bibliography pages updated

2011-04-25T11:52:00.001-05:00

Ed pointed out that the Criticism index page and the Bibliography search page indicated that the bibliography included criticism only from 1975 to the present. Since we've incorporated the Giantvalley entries, the bibliography actually includes criticism from 1838 to the present. I've updated the date here and here.

~Liz

Liverpool Central Library Finding Guided added

2011-04-25T10:53:00.000-05:00

I've added a finding guide for the Liverpool Central Library to the Archive. The guide is available linked from Finding Aids for Manuscripts at Individual Repositories and directly here. I've also revised the Contributors' Contact Information page to include information for the Liverpool Central Library.

~Liz

Duplicate letter removed

2011-04-25T09:27:00.001-05:00

Ken noticed that we had up a partial transcription and a complete transcription for a piece of Civil War correspondence, the letter from Walt Whitman to LeBaron Russell of 3 December 1863. I've taken down the partial transcription.

~Liz

correction to Traubel Volume 3

2011-04-05T15:36:00.001-05:00

I've fixed a transcription error in volume 3 of With Walt Whitman in Camden.

WWWC 3: 545 read, "A great many people down in Washington doubled it." I revised this to, "A great many people down in Washington doubted it."

~Liz

Correction made in Traubel Volume 3

2011-04-04T14:39:00.001-05:00

I have made a small correction in Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol 3, which Ken pointed out to me. On p. 473, "Mr. Harland" at the beginning of the second paragraph was corrected to "Mr. Harlan." (I have corrected the error both in the file for the entire volume and in the file for the individual entry in question.)

-Vanessa

date error in Whitman biography fixed

2011-03-21T16:14:00.000-05:00

An <em>Archive</em> user pointed out an error in a date in the biography. At the beginning of the section "New Orleans Sojourn," the first sentence read, "Fortunately, on February 9, 1846, Whitman met, between acts of a performance at the Broadway Theatre in New York, J. E. McClure, who intended to launch a New Orleans paper, the Crescent , with an associate, A. H. Hayes." I have revised the date to February 9, 1848. See "Walt Whitman," "New Orleans Sojourn."

~Liz

More changes and additions to the reviews section

2011-03-10T10:33:00.000-06:00

I have encoded and posted a short review of Whitman's "Shirval; a Tale of Jerusalem" that was brought to our attention by Adam Bradford (http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/shirval/anc.00612.html). Since this is the first review of one of Whitman's shorter fictional works, I have added a new category on the index page for the reviews titled "Reviews of Individual Stories."

I have also revised a review of Leaves of Grass (1855) titled "A Strange Blade," which we originally thought first appeared in the National Anti-Slavery Standard, but which was in fact first published in Punch Magazine, as Eric Conrad has discovered (http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1855/anc.00338.html). The information about the review's subsequent publication is documented in an editorial note.

-Vanessa

New review of Drum-Taps added

2011-03-10T09:22:00.000-06:00

I have transcribed, encoded, and uploaded a review of Drum-Taps that appeared in the New Haven Daily Palladium on November 28, 1865 (http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/drumtaps/anc.00611.html). The review was recently discovered and sent to us as a PDF by Stephanie Blalock.

-Vanessa

M-dash encoding error corrected in Traubel Volume 3

2011-03-03T08:42:00.000-06:00

I have corrected a number of encoding errors in Volume 3 of With Walt Whitman in Camden (both in the individual entries and in the whole text file). The m-dash had been encoded incorrectly and was displaying as "#8212;" in the online text.

-Vanessa

Small correction made to third volume of "With Walt Whitman in Camden"

2011-02-24T12:58:00.000-06:00

I have made a small correction in Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol 3, which Ken pointed out to me. On p. 465, near the bottom, the heading to a letter was given as "Port Hospital, Natchez, Miss.," and I have corrected it to read "Post Hospital, Natchez, Miss." (I have corrected the error both in the file for the entire volume and in the file for the individual entry in question.)

-Vanessa

Typo Correction in Sequel to Drum-Taps

2010-12-17T12:24:00.004-06:00

Mary Young pointed out a transcription error in the Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps volume. In "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" I've corrected the phrase "And carried hither and you" to "And carried hither and yon."

~ Brett

Corrections made to Drum-Taps

2010-11-24T07:59:00.002-06:00

I've made several changes to the volume of Drum-Taps available on the Whitman Archive:

In the transcription of page 31, I have restored the word "river" to the line that begins "Enter the captur'd works"; page 32, restored the dropped line, "An attendant follows, holding a tray--he carries a refuse pail"; page 33 restored the dropped line, "The neck of the cavalry-man, with the bullet through and through, I examine"; page 49, restored the exclamation point after "victorious" in the line beginning, "Sons of the Mother of All!"

Similarly, to the volume of Drum-Taps with Sequel to Drum-Taps, I have restored the word "river" to the line that begins "Enter the captur'd works" and the exclamation point after "victorious" in the line beginning, "Sons of the Mother of All!"

Steve Marsden brought these transcription errors to our attention.

~Liz

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps now available

2010-11-08T09:08:00.002-06:00

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps are now available on the Whitman Archive, via the "Other Books" section. Heidi Bean derived the transcriptions from the 1867 Leaves, copy-edited the text against the volumes of Drum-Taps, and encoded the text. Joshua Ware migrated the encoding to P5 and developed the XSLT for html display. Ashley Lawson proofread the WWA text. The source documents are copies of Drum-Taps and Drum-Taps with Sequel to Drum-Taps held by the University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives.

~Liz

dropped line restored in 1871-72 Leaves of Grass

2010-10-27T10:26:00.004-05:00

Matt Cohen pointed out that the line "The people to become brothers and sisters," was dropped in our transcription of "Passage to India" in the 1871-72 Leaves of Grass. Thanks go to Joshua Ware for correcting this error.

--Ken

transcription error in 1871-72 Leaves of Grass fixed

2010-10-22T08:16:00.002-05:00

An Archive user pointed out an error in our transcription of the 1871-72 Leaves of Grass. The line that begins, "To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall" had been transcribed as "To thank that the rivers will flow . . . ." I've revised our transcription.

~Liz

name on correspondence index page fixed

2010-10-12T18:31:00.001-05:00

I have corrected Fred McReady's name on the correspondence index page, where it was listed as "Fred Mcready." (McReady's name was transcribed correctly in the letter's TEI file.)

~Liz

New article posted under "About the Archive"

2010-10-11T14:01:00.004-05:00

Ken's article "Civil War Washington, the Walt Whitman Archive, and Some Present Editorial Challenges and Future Possibilities" is now live in the "About" section of the Archive's website (http://www.whitmanarchive.org/about/articles/P5/anc.00550.html). Thanks to Bev Rilett for encoding the article.

--Vanessa

New York Aurora page images now available on Whitman Archive

2010-10-08T09:35:00.002-05:00

As of this morning, page images of the New York Aurora from February through April 1842 are available on the Archive. To accommodate this material, I've created a new index page for Whitman's contributions to periodicals. The "periodicals" link from the home page now goes to this new page, which provides access both to Whitman's poems first published in periodicals and to the Aurora.

~Liz

Error in Civil War letter corrected

2010-10-07T13:15:00.001-05:00

I corrected the name of Thomas P. Sawyer, who corresponded with Whitman during the Civil War, in one of the letters and the index page for the correspondence. It had been encoded as "Thomas P. Singer," and Liz pointed out the error.

--Vanessa

Added 72 dpi image of O Captain! My Captain!

2010-10-05T11:34:00.001-05:00

The 72 dpi link for O Captain! My Captain! was broken. This issue was fixed by creating a 72 dpi jpg of brn.00001 (brn.00001.001.jpg) and uploading it to the manuscript figures folder on the server.

Correction in 1891-92 "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

2010-10-04T12:33:00.002-05:00

User Sean Mullane pointed out that the head for the 16th section had been omitted; I added it.

~ Brett

Small Revisions to Blue Book Encyclopedia Entry

2010-09-15T16:52:00.004-05:00

On about 10 September I revised the encyclopedia XML file so that the title of the entry about the Blue Book now reads: Walt Whitman's Blue Book (was: Walt Whitman's Blue Book (1968). I also revised the last sentence of the entry, which began "One can now follow Whitman's advice . . . ." It now begins "Both the print facsimile edition and the Whitman Archive online edition now allow one to follow Whitman's advice . . . ." Both changes were proposed by Ed Folsom.

~ Brett

publication information slightly revised for periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!"

2010-09-15T14:47:00.002-05:00

I've slightly revised the wording and punctuation of the publication information for the periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" following suggestions from Ken.

--Liz

"After the argument"--tweaking of a poetry manuscript

2010-09-15T14:44:00.002-05:00

I noticed we lacked a space between "rippling" and "water" in our transcription. Thanks go to Brett for fixing this yesterday.
--Ken

revision to Encyclopedia entry for the 1855 Leaves

2010-09-15T14:39:00.002-05:00

About ten days ago, Brett posted a revised version of Ivan Marki's encyclopedia entry on the 1855 Leaves of Grass. Ed Folsom updated the entry taking account of many new discoveries.
--Ken

mistranscription in "The Wound-Dresser," Leaves of Grass (1881-82) fixed

2010-09-01T09:06:00.001-05:00

In the 1881-82 edition of Leaves of Grass, we had mistranscribed an instance of the word soldiers' as soldier's in "The Wound-Dresser." I have fixed this error, which was pointed out by an Archive user.

~Liz

error in transcription of periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" fixed

2010-08-28T10:06:00.001-05:00

The transcription of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" duplicated the word "his" in line five. I've fixed this error in the WWA transcription. In addition, I've updated the bibliographic information for the Genoways volume referenced in the publication history section. Genoways' work was listed as "forthcoming," which I've changed to "2010."

~Liz

typo in "Beat! Beat! Drums!" corrected

2010-08-27T15:03:00.002-05:00

A Whitman Archive user directed our attention to a typo in our transcription of the periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" In the first stanza, "congregation" had been mistranscribed as "congregagation." I've fixed the error.

~Liz

title of Poems of Walt Whitman changed in two places in Reviews

2010-08-17T07:31:00.000-05:00

I have changed the title of Leaves of Grass: The Poems of Walt Whitman to Poems of Walt Whitman in two places in the Reviews section: the Reviews index page and the heading of the index page for reviews of the edition (currently only a single review). These changes make our use of the title consistent throughout and match the title of the edition as it is given in the review itself.

~Liz

Page "header" to Blue Book page images adjusted

2010-08-11T17:14:00.004-05:00

I've implemented a couple of small changes to the text of the title that appears in the grey border over these pages.

~ Brett

Blue Book entry added to the encyclopedia

2010-08-02T15:14:00.004-05:00

This entry, by Arthur Golden, was not one of the 80 originally transcribed, so I proofread from the recently received pre-publication file and then added it to the XML file that holds all the selected entries. This was necessary so that I could provide users with the text from the "about" link for the Blue Book on the Leaves of Grass index page.

~ Brett

Links to Blue Book images and encyclopedia entry added from LG index page

2010-08-02T15:11:00.002-05:00

I've created a "page flipper" for the Blue Book and added a link to it from the Leaves of Grass index page (under the 1860 edition).

~ Brett

Indexing of gallery re-enabled

2010-07-22T12:51:00.005-05:00

At the just-finished Whitman camp (our annual planning meeting), Travis argued compellingly for allowing search engines to index the photographs. As there were no objections, I've edited the robots.txt file to do this.

~ Brett

Typo in "After certain disastrous campaigns" manuscript (pml.00006) corrected

2010-07-22T12:48:00.002-05:00

Matt Cohen pointed out that the editorial note misspelled "disastrous"; I have now corrected.

~ Brett

Typo fixed in correspondence; Levi Strauss & company added to support page

2010-07-22T11:53:00.003-05:00

I noticed that the letter from Thayer & Eldridge to Whitman, 27 July 1860 had a typo: "We shall probably dispose of all the second Edition before the close of next month and we think that we had better point if cheaper for the next Edition, with a small Edition of the other style with the addition at 1.50." Liz corrected the phrase "point if cheaper" to "point it cheaper."

Liz also added Levi Strauss & Company to the list of "partners" on the support page.

Ken

Index page to Russian editions now available in Russian

2010-07-13T13:32:00.002-05:00

Following the model employed on the index pages for the German and Spanish Editions, I have revised the Russian Editions index page (http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/russian/index.html) to link to a version of the page in Russian. Lisa Renfro translated and proofread the page. In addition, both pages are now generated from XML/TEI files, transformed with XSLT, rather than from source HTML files.

~Liz

Links to social media sites now available

2010-07-08T09:20:00.001-05:00

I have added links to the Whitman Archive's Facebook page, Twitter feed, and Blogger Changelog to the homepage. Look for the icons in the "News and Updates" section of the homepage. In addition, I've created a "Follow us" link under "About," which links to a new page that also provides access to the sites.

Ashley Lawson set up our Facebook and Twitter presence.

~Liz

About the Archive information revised/updated; new News and Updates

2010-07-06T10:31:00.001-05:00

Two pages in the About section of the Archive, the Overview and Support pages, have been updated to reflect current work and funding (Ken provided the details and revisions). In addition, the homepage now announces the availability of Complete Prose Works and Memoranda During the War.

~Liz

error corrected in transcription of W. W. Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862

2010-07-02T15:31:00.002-05:00

I have corrected a mistranscription, pointed out by Ken, in the letter from W. W. Thayer to Walt Whitman of 31 August 1862, loc.00590. Our transcription originally read "with mind that have fed on husks," and I have corrected to "with minds that have fed on husks."

~Liz L.

Memoranda During the War added to "Other Books"

2010-07-01T12:28:00.001-05:00

Whitman's Memoranda During the War (1876) is now available on the Archive. Memoranda joins Complete Prose Works as the second volume in the new "Other Books" section.

Thanks go to Joshua Ware, Liz McClurg, Ashley Lawson, Brett Barney, and Brian Pytlik Zillig for their assistance with the project.

~Liz L.

Complete Prose Works added; Archive homepage and Published Works index pages revised

2010-06-17T15:34:00.002-05:00

Whitman's Complete Prose Works (1892) is now available on the Whitman Archive. I have added a new category, "Other Books," to the Published Works section of the Archive homepage. In addition, I have revised the Published Works index page to include this new category.

Joshua Ware prepared the text for presentation on the Whitman Archive.

~Liz

Update to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Finding Aid

2010-05-14T10:36:00.004-05:00

I have updated The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Finding Aid, to reflect our style guide. Moreover, I added verso images of manuscripts, and corrected the images for the manuscript "To Other Lands."

-- Tim

Haverford College Finding Aid Removed

2010-05-11T10:06:00.002-05:00

The Haverford College Finding Aid for poetry manuscripts was removed, since Haverford College has no Walt Whitman poetry manuscripts.

-- Tim

Updates to some Finding Aids

2010-05-11T08:42:00.003-05:00

I have updated the following Finding Aids, to reflect our style guide: American Antiquarian Society; Amherst College (also, made titles consistent, and corrected publication dates for “[It is in itself]”); Boston Public Library (also, corrected duplicate images for “Eidólons,” “To a Locomotive in Winter,” “Religions – Gods,” and “[You don’t want something to wrestle with you]”); Boston University (also, made titles consistent); Brigham Young University (also, added a blank verso image); British Library (also, made titles consistent); University of California, Berkeley; Dartmouth College; and Harvard University (also, made titles consistent).

-- Tim

Blue Book image added; NYPL-Lion EAD updated, part 2

2010-05-06T10:10:00.002-05:00

Thanks to Sabrina, I located an image of page 227 from the Blue Book. I've processed the image and uploaded it to the figures directory. I've also revised the EAD to make available the link to the page image.

~Liz

Downloads link added

2010-05-05T17:51:00.003-05:00

I have added a link to the Downloads page from the front page (under "Resources") and also from the Resources main page.

~Brett

Downloads link added

2010-05-05T17:51:00.000-05:00

I have added a link to the Downloads page from the front page (under "Resources") and also from the Resources main page.

~ Brett

missing Blue Book images processed, uploaded; NYPL-Lion Finding Guide updated

2010-05-05T10:19:00.002-05:00

I have processed and uploaded the missing images for pages 228-239 of the Blue Book to the manuscripts/figures directory and have updated the NYPL-Lion Finding Guide. (The Integrated Guide should ingest these updates within 24 hours.) These images were on a CD that apparently had been overlooked when the other images were processed.

Please note that there is still no image for page 227. I am looking into whether an image for the page was included with the Blue Book scans, and I have not yet located it.

--Liz

Missing text added to review of Leaves of Grass Imprints

2010-05-03T13:03:00.001-05:00

I have filled in some gaps in the text of a LoG Imprints review (http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves_imprints1860/anc.00274.html) based on Ken's reading of the original copy during his recent trip to Brooklyn.

--V

Another typo fixed

2010-05-03T09:16:00.002-05:00

I have corrected another typo that Ken spotted in the "Credit" section of the caption to one of our Whitman images (http://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/image122b.html?sort=year&order=ascending&page=13). The line now correctly reads " Hirshhorn Museum."

--Vanessa

Typo fixed

2010-05-03T08:36:00.002-05:00

I have fixed a typo on page iv of the 1855 Leaves of Grass ("adn" --> "and").

--Vanessa

Slight change made to biographical essay

2010-04-26T08:40:00.002-05:00

I have altered the first sentence of Ed and Ken's biographical essay on Whitman by shortening the information on his birthplace to "in West Hills on Long Island." A user of the Archive from New York helpfully pointed out that the previous phrasing was incorrect, since West Hills is near Huntington, Long Island, rather than Hempstead.

--Vanessa

Civil War correspondence added to the site

2010-04-18T22:05:00.005-05:00

We have enhanced the site by publishing the Civil War correspondence of Whitman. Thanks go the NHPRC for supporting this work. In editing more than 600 letters, the Whitman Archive has created the first two-way correspondence treating these key years in Whitman's life. This contribution represents the combined effort of Whitman Archive staff at the Universities of Iowa, Virginia, and Nebraska-Lincoln.

--Ken

Downloads of raw LG and reviews files added

2010-03-26T12:53:00.004-05:00

I created a zip archive of each of the Leaves of Grass texts and a single zip archive of the 210 reviews files. These are now available from the Downloads page (http://whitmanarchive.org/downloads/index.html), the design of which I have tweaked to accord with similar pages on the site.

~Brett

Manuscript title change in a finding aid

2010-03-25T16:01:00.005-05:00

I changed the title "Notes for Lecture" to "[Was it thought that all was]" in the finding aid for The Alice and Rollo G. Silver Collection in the Special Collections at Boston University.

-- Tim

Two Reviews from the National Anti-Slavery Standard Added

2010-03-25T09:03:00.002-05:00

I have encoded and added two previously unnoticed reviews of works by Whitman that appeared in the National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1856 and 1868 respectively: http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1855/anc.00338.html, http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00339.html . The reviews were brought to our attention by Ezra Greenspan.

- Vanessa

copyright dates updated

2010-03-09T14:16:00.001-06:00

I changed "1995-2009" to "1995-2010" both in the HTML source for the front page and in the XSLT source for the inner pages.

~Brett

Australian Journal's 1869 Review of Poems by WW added

2010-03-08T11:16:00.002-06:00

I have encoded and added the Australian Journal's 1869 Review of Poems by WW to the review section of the Archive.
<http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00345.html>

The review has been linked from the poems index here:
<http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/index.html>

-Bev

Review of the 1860-61 LoG from the New York Day Book Added

2010-03-08T08:41:00.002-06:00

I have encoded and added the review of the 1860-61 Leaves of Grass that Eric Conrad discovered to the review section of the Archive (http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/anc.00347.html).

- Vanessa

DHQ essay posted in "About the Archive"

2010-02-27T22:07:00.003-06:00

Vanessa Steinroetter posted my essay from Digital Humanities Quarterly "Edition, Project, Database, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?" in the "About the Archive" section of the site.

--Ken

2010-01-22T14:54:00.002-06:00

Travis Brown, who works with Matt C. at U Texas, has added to the bibliography of scholarship all of the entries from the Giantvalley volume (1838-1941).

~ Brett

Error corrected in periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!"

2010-01-21T13:09:00.002-06:00

I've corrected a typographical error in our transcription of the periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" In the second stanza, I've corrected "Over the traffic of cites" to read "Over the traffic of cities."

--Liz

editorial policy statement revised

2009-12-17T09:17:00.002-06:00

I have revised a paragraph of the editorial policy statement relating to correspondence. The paragraph which previously read, "Those letters for which the Archive has digital images have been freshly transcribed and edited, often for the first time. For now, we follow the practices of other editors of correspondence by remaining as unobtrusive as possible and presenting an inclusive text representing as nearly as possible a clean, reading version of the letter. We have not recorded deletions, noted authors' insertions, or attempted to duplicate the appearance of the original holographs. We have omitted letterheads and standardized the placement of salutations, signatures, and postscripts. These decisions have been made on a pragmatic basis and to create consistency among the materials presented. As we secure more digital images of original letters, and as we have time, we will update our XML files and encode all deletions and insertions. In the future, Archive users will have an opportunity to choose between two different ways of viewing the correspondence, either as clean, reading versions or as diplomatic transcriptions," now includes a sentence explaining our treatment of meta-commentary, "Those letters for which the Archive has digital images have been freshly transcribed and edited, often for the first time. For now, we follow the practices of other editors of correspondence by remaining as unobtrusive as possible and presenting an inclusive text representing as nearly as possible a clean, reading version of the letter. We have not recorded deletions, noted authors' insertions, nor attempted to duplicate the appearance of the original holographs. We have also omitted metacommentary in the form of cues such as "(over)" that were relevant to the reader of the original letter as a physical object but are more distracting than helpful in an electronic environment. We have omitted letterheads and standardized the placement of salutations, signatures, and postscripts. These decisions have been made on a pragmatic basis and to create consistency among the materials presented. As we secure more digital images of original letters, and as we have time, we will update our XML files and encode all deletions and insertions. In the future, Archive users will have an opportunity to choose between two different ways of viewing the correspondence, either as clean, reading versions or as diplomatic transcriptions."

~Liz

Editorial Policy Statement Revised

2009-11-18T15:44:00.001-06:00

I have fixed two errors in the Editorial Policy Statement: I have changed "restraints" in the first paragraph to "constraints" and have replaced an en-dash in the Translations section with an em-dash.

Also, I have folded the longer correspondence editorial policy statement into the correspondence section so that the information now exists in a single location.

~Liz

Spanish version of "Spanish Editions" Intro Page Posted

2009-11-18T15:31:00.002-06:00

The Spanish Editions intro/index page, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/spanish/index.html, now allows users to click through to a Spanish version of the page (a feature we recently adopted for the German editions). Matt Cohen translated the index page and provided the xhtml file.

~Liz

broken link fixed

2009-11-12T11:47:00.002-06:00

The link to Ed Folsom's "Reply" (http://www.whitmanarchive.org/about/articles/anc.00143.html) from within "Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives" (http://www.whitmanarchive.org/about/articles/anc.00142.html) was pointing to the wrong file. I've fixed the link.

~Liz

German Translation Added

2009-11-05T12:40:00.002-06:00

Liz and I finished preparing the German translation by Hans Reisiger for online publication, and it has now been added to the Whitman Archive website (http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/german/index.html). We decided to include a German translation of the introductory note, which you can access by clicking on the link in the upper right-hand corner.

~Vanessa

error in transcription of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" fixed

2009-10-02T13:05:00.002-05:00

An Archive user pointed out an error in our transcription of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" I deleted the comma following "heavier" after consultation with Susan and after reviewing the page image.

~Liz