Footnote updated in November Boughs review

A November 1888 review of November Boughs published in the Boston Evening Transcript included a footnote about Elias Hicks that should have been about Edmund Clarence Stedman.  I have corrected the reference and updated the footnote.

~ Nikki

Typos fixed in periodical printing of "After All, Not to Create Only"

I've corrected some typos in the New York Evening Post version of the poem ("though" for "thou" and "Civilation" for "Civilization").

~ Nikki

Updates made to Civil War and Reconstruction correspondence files

Neil Mann alerted us to four letters that listed incorrect date and repository information.  I have corrected the date listed in the index for the letter to W. D. O'Connor of 27 Sept. 1867 and the dates listed in the index and the date field for the letter to John Burroughs of 18 June [1872].  I have also changed the letters from Margaret Stilwell to Walt Whitman of 25 October 1863 and from James S. Stilwell to Walt Whitman of 5 July 1864 to reflect that they are held in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library.

~ Nikki

"To limn the stately and the" manuscript revised

Tim Jackson drew our attention to the fact that the second part of the first line was not showing up, a problem that turned out to be caused by the misplacement of a note tag in the transcription. This has now been corrected and the previously omitted text is now displayed.

~Brett

change of authorship attribution: review of "A Child's Reminiscence," Cincinnati Daily Commercial (28 Dec. 1859)

Based on conversations with Virginia Jackson and on my own research, I have changed the attribution from "[Anonymous]" to "[Henry Clapp and Walt Whitman]." Whitman knew Murat Halstead, a long-time editor at the Cincinnati Daily Commercial, and even as late as 1876 Whitman wrote a letter to Halstead marked "Private" designed to place extracts from Memoranda During the War in the Commercial prior to the publication of the book. Several reasons, then, contribute to the attribution of the review to Clapp and Whitman: 1) this personal connection between Halstead and Whitman, 2) the speed with which the review appeared in Cincinnati (December 28, 1859) following initial publication in The New-York Saturday Press only a few days earlier (December 24, 1859), and 3) the known history of elaborate publicity campaigns orchestrated by Clapp and Whitman.

Typo fixed in vol. 3 of Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden

I changed "Deat Dixon"  to "Dear Dixon" on p. 571 of vol. 3 of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden.
        --Ken
                   

Updates made to description of Integrated Guide to Manuscripts

Brett and I made some changes to the description of the integrated guide to manuscripts at http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/finding_aids/integrated.html, specifically by eliminating language describing the work as being in prototype form and eliminating the reference to the finding aids to collections at NYPL and the the University of Texas as being in progress.  We also added "France" to the list of countries holding Whitman manuscripts.
         ---Ken