I have updated the Whitman Archive "Project Staff" page to reflect the current staff across all institutions. This included creating a new section for "Past Co-Director," for former project co-director Matt Cohen. I have also updated the text at the top of the "Donate" page, including adding a "Donate Here" button.
- Kevin
Transcription errors in the 1867 Leaves of Grass poem "We Two--How Long We were Fool'd" and in "Walt Whitman in Boston" have been corrected. We thank Kelly E. Miller, Ph.D., for drawing our attention to the typo in the poem.
The links to "Lorenzo Fowler" and "New Orleans" in the WWA's biography of Whitman both took users to the incorrect page (they linked to entires in the The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia, but not the correct entires). The links in the biography have now been fixed. We would like to thank Archive user and Whitman scholar Martin Klammer for pointing out the errors.
- Kevin
The links to the introductions for Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps on the "Other Books" index page were not linking to the correct page. These errors have been corrected. Our thanks to Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin for pointing out this error.
- Kevin
Kevin has added two U of Iowa Press publications to the "Books" section of Selected Criticism at https://whitmanarchive.org/commentary/selected-criticism: Caterina Bernardini's Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870–1945 and David Grant's "The Disenthralled Hosts of Freedom:" Party Prophecy in the Antebellum Editions of Leaves of Grass.
~ Brett
Ed Folsom noticed a typo in Volume 5 of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden; a passage from April 21, 1889, had originally read "But if is of a piece with Harrison—the shit-ass! God damn 'im!" The "if" has been corrected to "it": "But it is of a piece . . ."
We have also updated our donors page, adding the dollar amounts of each contribution level to the main page (rather than only appearing on the "Donate" index page).
We have also added a link to the donors page from the "About" index page on the site.
- Kevin
A Whitman Archive user, Byron Strom, noticed an error in our transcription of a January 8, 1862, letter from Silas S. Soule to Whitman. Our transcription of the letter's first sentence had previously read "Perhaps you have forgotten a wild farmer's scarecrow [illegible] man..." The transcription has been corrected to read "Perhaps you have forgotten a wild harum scarum yound man..." (with the word "young" misspelled). We thank Byron Strom for bringing the error to our attention and offering a correction.
- Kevin