Thursday, February 27, 2025

Transcription of letter updated/corrected

 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

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