Support page updated

I have updated the “Support” page to reflect recent funding and staffing information, and to fix the link to the University of Nebraska Foundation’s web page for donations to the Whitman Archive. 

~ Nikki

New marginalia section published

A new section of the Archive devoted to Whitman's marginalia and annotations is now available.  This section features more than 800 searchable pages of Whitman’s markings on books and notes about his reading.  Whitman Archive staff and former staff members and affiliates who have contributed to the marginalia and annotations include: Matt Cohen, Kenneth Price, Ed Folsom, Erica Fretwell, Ashley Lawson, Brett Barney, Liz Lorang, Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Jonathan Cheng, Travis Brown, Mike Speriosu, Laura Beerits, Elizabeth Frye, Nicole Gray, Lauren Grewe, Ty Alyea, Alejandro Omidsalar, and Ashley Palmer.  Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities for support of this work.    

~ Nikki

Additional encyclopedia entries now available

I have published 30 additional entries from Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998) on the Whitman Archive. 

~ Nikki

Correspondence published, scribal index updated

We have published 74 additional post-Reconstruction letters.  The letters are available on the Whitman Archive at http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/index.html.  We have also updated the index and search options for the scribal documents. 

~ Nikki

Corrected link to audio recording of "America"

The link on the audio recordings page (http://www.whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/audio.html) had an .html extension, which I've changed to .mp3

~ Brett

Corrections made to piece of correspondence

Ken noticed several errors in the notes for the letter from Walt Whitman to James Redpath, 21 October 1863. The name of the character in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches, Tribulation Periwinkle, was misspelled. Also, the note incorrectly referred to Specimen Days as the realization of Whitman's publishing proposal to Redpath, when it should have been Memoranda During the War. Both of these errors have been corrected.

- Kevin

Corrections and updates to With Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. 1

We have reproofed and made a series of updates to Volume 1 of Horace Traubel’s With Walt Whitman in Camden, including adjustments to spacing, correction of typos, and addition of a list of illustrations. We have also clarified the nature of the notes in this volume by describing them as “indexical notes.” 

~ Nikki