New post-Reconstruction letters published

I have published 17 new post-Reconstruction letters on the Whitman Archive. They are: nyp.00418, nyp.00548, loc.07194, nyp.00569, nyp.00568, med.00804, loc.07429, loc.07369, loc.07445, loc.07060, loc.07438, loc.07370, loc.07080, loc.04972, loc.07437, loc.07434, and med.00652.

~ Nikki

Three new letters published

We have published three new post-Reconstruction letters on the Whitman Archive.  They are: 

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1886

Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, [6 May 1887]

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 21 June 1887

~ Stephanie and Nikki

Three notebook transcriptions + images added

I've created a new index page for full transcriptions of notebooks, with links to three of them: loc.00484, uva.00053, and uva.00062.

~ Brett

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps now available

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps are now available on the Whitman Archive, via the "Other Books" section. Heidi Bean derived the transcriptions from the 1867 Leaves, copy-edited the text against the volumes of Drum-Taps, and encoded the text. Joshua Ware migrated the encoding to P5 and developed the XSLT for html display. Ashley Lawson proofread the WWA text. The source documents are copies of Drum-Taps and Drum-Taps with Sequel to Drum-Taps held by the University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives.

~Liz

New article posted under "About the Archive"

Ken's article "Civil War Washington, the Walt Whitman Archive, and Some Present Editorial Challenges and Future Possibilities" is now live in the "About" section of the Archive's website (http://www.whitmanarchive.org/about/articles/P5/anc.00550.html). Thanks to Bev Rilett for encoding the article.

--Vanessa

New York Aurora page images now available on Whitman Archive

As of this morning, page images of the New York Aurora from February through April 1842 are available on the Archive. To accommodate this material, I've created a new index page for Whitman's contributions to periodicals. The "periodicals" link from the home page now goes to this new page, which provides access both to Whitman's poems first published in periodicals and to the Aurora.

~Liz

Blue Book entry added to the encyclopedia

This entry, by Arthur Golden, was not one of the 80 originally transcribed, so I proofread from the recently received pre-publication file and then added it to the XML file that holds all the selected entries. This was necessary so that I could provide users with the text from the "about" link for the Blue Book on the Leaves of Grass index page.

~ Brett