Friday, November 15, 2013

Tweaks to UVA EAD

Ken pointed out two small errors in the individual finding aid for the University of Virginia:

  • The first, in item 169: Both the name of the folder and the title of the item were incorrect; they were listed as "The Wall about Martyrs," when they should in fact be "The Wallabout Martyrs."

  • The second error was in item 185, entitled "As I sit in twilight." The heading for "Boxes:" was missing, and the "Whitman Archive ID" line was run in with the box information, rather than being on its own line.

Both errors have been corrected.

- Kevin

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Archive staff page updated

I have added new and returning project participants as well as updated staff biographies to the Whitman Archive staff page, available at the following url: [whitmanarchive.org/about/staff.html].

~Janel

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Leaves of Grass index page updated

I've added information about the source of our page images for each edition of Leaves of Grass and added language to the introductory prose that directs users to seek permission to use images from the owners from whom we got them.

~ Brett

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Support page updated

We have mentioned important new grants received from NEH and NHPRC, and we have acknowledged generous new support provided by the University of Iowa's Digital Studio for Public Arts and Humanities.
         --Ken

Monday, October 21, 2013

Encoding of review of Leaves of Grass (1871-72) tweaked

An anonymous June 1872 review of the 1871-72 Leaves of Grass was not displaying because of an attribute error.  I removed the rend attribute that was causing the trouble and adjusted the encoding for the section numbers in the poem excerpts. 

~ Nikki

Footnote updated in November Boughs review

A November 1888 review of November Boughs published in the Boston Evening Transcript included a footnote about Elias Hicks that should have been about Edmund Clarence Stedman.  I have corrected the reference and updated the footnote.

~ Nikki

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Typos fixed in periodical printing of "After All, Not to Create Only"

I've corrected some typos in the New York Evening Post version of the poem ("though" for "thou" and "Civilation" for "Civilization").

~ Nikki