Headnote for Brother Jonathan updated

I have updated the headnote for Brother Jonathan. The head note originally indicated Brother Jonathan had been established in 1842, but it had actually been established several years earlier in 1839. Archive user Wendy Katz alerted us to this information, and Susan Belasco and Katz completed the revised headnote.

--Liz

Conditions of Use Page Update

I have updated the Conditions of Use page to be clearer about rights
and the conditions under which the materials are made available. This
language was approved at the annual planning meeting of the Whitman
Archive in summer 2015.

--Liz

Contemporary Reviews Section Updated

I have updated the Contemporary Reviews section of the Whitman
Archive. All reviews are new encoded in TEI P5, and I have enriched
their metadata to reflect the transcription and encoding histories of
individual files, source information, and rights. In addition,
material in the Reviews section now reflects the Whitman Archive's
evolving approach in metadata display, as well as information on how
to a cite an individual review and a link to the underlying XML/TEI of
each review.

In a subsequent stage of revision, the index pages providing access to
reviews of specific volumes and poems (e.g.,
http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1855/index.html,
http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/a_child/index.html) will
be updated. For a short period of time, bibliographic information on
the index pages may differ slightly from information displayed with
each individual review. Information displayed with each review is the
most complete and correct information.

--Liz

Additional marginalia now available

Four new marginalia documents are now available in the Whitman Archive’s marginalia and annotations section:

“Robert Chambers” 

“Imagination and Fact” 

“The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires” 

“The Slavonians and Eastern Europe” 

~ Nikki

Updated correspondence

I have updated 39 letters from the Civil War, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction periods.  Updates included adding images and correspondent information, updating transcriptions, and updating annotations.  

The following letters have been updated: 

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.00757.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.00578.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.00579.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/uva.00343.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00331.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00326.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.00568.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/bos.00006.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/clc.00001.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/dar.00003.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00310.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00311.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00349.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00312.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00313.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/uva.00342.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.00560.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.01491.html  

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.01285.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.01731.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.01814.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.01896.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/upa.00016.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/upa.00062.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00404.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00649.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/owu.00053.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.00479.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.05962.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00756.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00704.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.05099.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00705.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00703.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00706.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00708.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00709.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/med.00710.html

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.05146.html

~ Nikki

Updated annotations for 1881 letter

I updated the annotations for an October 31, 1881 letter from Whitman to Sylvester Baxter to reflect the findings in a recent article published in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 

~ Nikki

Corrected typo in periodical poem

I changed “piereced” to “pierced” in the second-to-last line of Whitman’s poem “Ambition,” published in Brother Jonathan on January 29, 1842. 

~ Nikki