Thursday, February 16, 2012

Typo corrected in Civil War letter

The typo "snood" in the Letter from Fred B. McReady to Walt Whitman, 29 April 1863 has been changed to "snoot." The phrase now reads: "when a fellowed pluged you in the snoot instead of hitting back give him another try."

~Janel

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Corrections to stylesheet and transcription files for Leaves 1891-92

User Mario Corona alerted us to the absence of the bracketed note in the display of "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" (Leaves 1891-92), and an investigation turned up several similar omissions, which I traced to the stylesheet. I have added a template for authorial notes in the XSLT stylesheet. I also noticed that the horizontal separators for the couple of footnotes in the 1891-92 edition were missing, so I added the appropriate code to the TEI file and created a template in the XSLT stylesheet to display them.

~ Brett

Friday, February 10, 2012

revision made to 2 contemporary reviews of the Specimen Days and Collect (Index and corresponding TEI files)

On the Contemporary Reviews of Specimen Days (index and TEI files, I changed "Anonymous" in this entry
[Anonymous]. "[Review of Specimen Days and Collect]." Westminster Review n.s. 64 (July 1883) 287-91 to "Call, Wathen Mark Wilks" as attributed in the Wellesley Index (DNB: Wathen Mark Wilks, 1817-1890, misc. author. Venn.) Note that Call also is credited with writing an 1860 review of Leaves of Grass.
-Bev Rilett

Revision made to 3 contemporary reviews of the 1855 Leaves of Grass (Index and corresponding TEI files)


-Bev Rilett

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Italics added

The following line is italicized in Whitman's "Old Chants" on page 414 of the 1891-92 Leaves of Grass: "And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet." (See http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/383.) This correction has been made thanks to Mario Corona's copy-editing suggestion. ~Katie Kruger

Monday, January 30, 2012

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

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

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

typo corrected, "A Backward Glance"

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