Duplicate letter removed

Ken noticed that we had up a partial transcription and a complete transcription for a piece of Civil War correspondence, the letter from Walt Whitman to LeBaron Russell of 3 December 1863. I've taken down the partial transcription.

~Liz

correction to Traubel Volume 3

I've fixed a transcription error in volume 3 of With Walt Whitman in Camden.

WWWC 3: 545 read, "A great many people down in Washington doubled it." I revised this to, "A great many people down in Washington doubted it."

~Liz

Correction made in Traubel Volume 3

I have made a small correction in Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol 3, which Ken pointed out to me. On p. 473, "Mr. Harland" at the beginning of the second paragraph was corrected to "Mr. Harlan." (I have corrected the error both in the file for the entire volume and in the file for the individual entry in question.)

-Vanessa

date error in Whitman biography fixed

An <em>Archive</em> user pointed out an error in a date in the biography. At the beginning of the section "New Orleans Sojourn," the first sentence read, "Fortunately, on February 9, 1846, Whitman met, between acts of a performance at the Broadway Theatre in New York, J. E. McClure, who intended to launch a New Orleans paper, the Crescent , with an associate, A. H. Hayes." I have revised the date to February 9, 1848. See "Walt Whitman," "New Orleans Sojourn."

~Liz

More changes and additions to the reviews section

I have encoded and posted a short review of Whitman's "Shirval; a Tale of Jerusalem" that was brought to our attention by Adam Bradford (http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/shirval/anc.00612.html). Since this is the first review of one of Whitman's shorter fictional works, I have added a new category on the index page for the reviews titled "Reviews of Individual Stories."

I have also revised a review of Leaves of Grass (1855) titled "A Strange Blade," which we originally thought first appeared in the National Anti-Slavery Standard, but which was in fact first published in Punch Magazine, as Eric Conrad has discovered (http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1855/anc.00338.html). The information about the review's subsequent publication is documented in an editorial note.

-Vanessa

New review of Drum-Taps added

I have transcribed, encoded, and uploaded a review of Drum-Taps that appeared in the New Haven Daily Palladium on November 28, 1865 (http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/drumtaps/anc.00611.html). The review was recently discovered and sent to us as a PDF by Stephanie Blalock.

-Vanessa

M-dash encoding error corrected in Traubel Volume 3

I have corrected a number of encoding errors in Volume 3 of With Walt Whitman in Camden (both in the individual entries and in the whole text file). The m-dash had been encoded incorrectly and was displaying as "#8212;" in the online text.

-Vanessa