Monday, April 13, 2026

Date correction in headnote for letter from Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 13 January 1863

Ken noticed that the headnote for this file (loc.00396) had a date of 3 January, while the title and the transcription showed 13 January, which is correct. The date is now consistent and correct throughout.

 ~ Brett 

Monday, March 2, 2026

Correction to John Burroughs's "Whitman: A Study"

Ira Chernus noticed that our PDF of this volume (https://whitmanarchive.org/media/data/whitman-disciples/source/pdf/anc.02179.pdf) was missing two consecutive pages, 75 and 76. I have added those.

~ Brett 

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Introduction to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman Letters Corrected

 Wesley Raabe's introductory essay, "'walter dear': The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt" (anc.02046) contained a small typo and many broken links, which I have now corrected.

 ~ Brett 

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Project Staff page and Donate page updated

 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 

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Typos corrected in 1867 Leaves of Grass and Sylvester Baxter reminiscence

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.

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Fixed incorrect links in Whitman biography

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

Friday, August 1, 2025

Links corrected on "Other Books" index page

 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