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 

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.

Typo correction in encyclopedia entry for Democratic Review

Matt Cohen noticed that the first occurrence of the name of John L. O'Sullivan had been misspelled. I have corrected.

~ Brett

Character encoding error in "Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman"

Ken spotted an unusual character showing as the separator between dates in a reference to the third edition of Leaves of Grass. I have corrected this to an en-dash.

 ~ Brett

 

Two line-end hyphens added to transcription of 1881-1882 Leaves of Grass

Ed noticed that our transcription was lacking two hyphens that are present in the images for p. 61. I have supplied them.

~ Brett

Two typo corrections in criticism section

Ken noticed that the encyclopedia entry for "A Broadway Pageant" had misspelled the title as "A Broadway Pagaent" and that an "s" was missing from the end of Fredson Bowers's name in a paragraph of Hershel Parker's "The Real 'Live Oak, with Moss': Straight Talk about Whitman's 'Gay Manifesto'" (anc.00157). These typos are now corrected.

~ Brett

Corrected typo in 1881-1882 Leaves of Grass

 Ed noticed that in our transcription of "Song of Myself," on p. 68, a space was missing between "in" and "collars." I have corrected this.

~ Brett

Two typos corrected in With Walt Whitman in Camden

I noticed a typo in the entry for 1889-01-01 (vol. 3, p. 439) and Ed noticed one in the entry for 1888-06-21 (vol. 1, p. 364). I have corrected both.

~ Brett

Missing text restored to transcription of 1867 Leaves of Grass

Archive user Kenneth Sherwood pointed out that our transcription of p. 37 of the 1867 edition of Leaves lacked several words. As it happens, I recognize this as a long-standing problem that originally occurred c. 2000, when a Python programmer created a script to help us automate line-end tagging but that had the unintended side-effect of deleting any text that occurred between a mid-line hyphen and a line-end hyphen. Other occurrences were corrected at the time, but this one obviously got missed. The words have now been restored to the transcription.

~ Brett

Typos corrected in two critical essays

I noticed a superfluous comma in Alan Helms's essay "Whitman's 'Live Oak with Moss'"; in Hershel Parker's essay "The Real 'Live Oak, with Moss': Straight Talk about Whitman's 'Gay Manifesto'," I noticed that an "o" had been substituted for a "0"; in the same essay, Ken noticed that two words had been omitted. Appropriate corrections have been made.

~ Brett

Typo corrected in final paragraph of Complete Prose Works

 Archive user Ira Chernus alerted us to a typo in the final paragraph of Complete Prose Works (1892), in which we had "show many topics" for "how many topics." This has been corrected.

~ Brett

Typo Corrected in '"Backward Glance," Leaves of Grass (1891-1892)

 Astute reader Ira Chernus alerted us to an error on p. 429, where we had "it not always" for "if not always." I have made the correction.

~ Brett

Minor corrections made in two encyclopedia entries and one manuscript transcription

Stefan Schöberlein pointed out that the entry for the New Orleans Crescent (https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_36.html) was missing a space between words and had perpetuated from the print edition a misspelling of the last name of Durant DaPonte as "Da Poute." Our transcription of med.00725, which was based on the works of Grier and Holloway, included this same misspelling. Finally, the entry for New Orleans, Louisiana had referred to "Fremont House" instead of the correct "Tremont House." I have now corrected each of these errors.

~ Brett

Typo corrected in 1881-1882, 1891-1892 LG

WWA user Paul VanDeCarr alerted us to the fact that our transcription of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" in the 1881-1892 edition, on p. 134, had ". . . be hung out . . . " instead of the correct ". . . be hung our . . . ." I discovered that the same typo was also present in the 1891-1892 printing. I have made the corrections.

~ Brett

Word missing from transcription of 1867 Leaves supplied

User Keith Brough pointed out that the word "strong" had been omitted from our transcription of "Walt Whitman" in the 1867 edition. I have corrected the error.

~ Brett

Small corrections to entry of 27 Nov. 1888 in With Walt Whitman in Camden

Matt noticed that the month was missing from the head in this entry and that the word "at" was missing in the phrase "the old Quaker looked at me." I have made the corrections.

~ Brett

Correction to heading for entry in With Walt Whitman in Camden

Ed noticed that the link to the single-entry page for September 18, 1891 (https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/8/med.00008.220.html) had become garbled, so I have corrected it. The corresponding heading in the file for the entirety of volume 8 needed no change.

~ Brett

Tiny change to encoding of Complete Prose Works

User Ira Chernus brought to our attention the appearance of the word "overhended" in "Hudson River Sights." Presumably, this is an error for "overbended," but since the error is in the original print I have added markup rather than change the basic transcription.

~ Brett

Typo corrections in Amanuensis letter

User "Spaanse Spook" noted that our transcription of the 12 June 1863 letter from Albion F. Hubbard to Austin Rice (prc.00118) misspelled "comfortable," and I noticed that "Written" was also misspelled in the note. I made both corrections.

~ Brett

Transcription errors corrected in Complete Prose and "Reminiscences of Walt Whitman"

In reading some of Whitman's comments regarding opera, I noticed two transcription errors in Complete Prose Works (pp. 294 and 294) and one in the John Townsend Trowbridge reminiscence in the interviews section. They are now corrected.

~ Brett