typo corrected in 1860 LG

An Archive-user spotted a typo in our transcription of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. I've revised the line "It avails not, neither time or place—instance avails not" (from "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry") to read, correctly, "It avails not, neither time or place—distance avails not," as indicated by the page image.

~Liz

Ed's introduction to the photographs (re)added

This essay, which had been available as far back as the brown site, went AWOL at some point in the various migrations that the gallery has made in the last couple of years. It is now available again (as a link from the Pictures and Sound index page).

~ Brett

Review of "Leaves of Grass Imprints" Added

I encoded a review of Leaves of Grass Imprints (1860-61) by Whitman that, as Ken noticed, was published in the special reviews issue of WWQR but that was not featured on our website. I also added a link to a previously encoded review of Poems by Walt Whitman (published in Temple Bar, Oct. 1869) that was missing on the index page for some inexplicable reason.

~ Vanessa

Pionery text revised

Lisa Renfro proofred the transciption of Pionery and found and fixed several small errors. I have posted the revised version of the file, and I've also revised the encoding and the stylesheet so that indented lines now display correctly.

~Liz

More updates to Periodicals

1. In the bibliography of poems published in periodicals, the entry "No Turning Back." Sunday Times 14 August 1842: [1] used to link to the wrong item. I've fixed the link.

2. I've revised the language in notes for "Our Future Lot" and "Time To Come," so that they provide more information about the ambiguous dating of what is believed to be the poem's first appearance in the Long-Islander. I've also revised the language in the headnotes for the Aurora and the Long-Islander as well as in the bibliography accordingly.

3. I've provided additional bibliographic information in editorial notes that reference the Comprehensive Reader's Edition of Leaves of Grass and volumes of correspondence. Rather than simply referring to the "Reader's Edition," for example, the notes now include full bibliographic information, where appropriate. See:
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/poems/per.00125
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/poems/per.00121
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/poems/per.00117

Since we are able to--and do--link directly to volumes of With Walt Whitman in Camden from notes in the periodicals section, I have not provided full citations in those cases.

~Liz

Editorial policy statement revised

Following our discussion at last week's staff meeting, I have revised the language about image processing in our editorial policy statement.

The relevant section previously read: We first obtain a high-resolution digital image (TIFF scanned at 600 DPI or photographed at 3008 x 2000 pixels) and enter it into a tracking database. This high quality image is the basis for the transcription. To prepare it for web presentation, the image is converted to JPEG file format, cropped, and color-corrected. It is saved in three file sizes to accommodate various users' needs.

The new, revised language: We first obtain a high-resolution digital image (TIFF scanned at 600 DPI or photographed at 3008 x 2000 pixels) and enter it into a tracking database. This high quality image is the basis for the transcription. To prepare it for web presentation, the TIFF image is cropped and then used to derive three different JPEG images of different sizes to accommodate various users' needs.

~Liz

"Time to Come" added to the Periodicals section

I've added the page image, cropped view, and poem transcription for "Time to Come" to the Periodicals section of the Archive. I've updated the New York Aurora headnote so that it links to the new transcription. I've also added "Time to Come" to our bibliography of poems first published in periodicals. In all places, I've included the note, "This poem was published in the Aurora with the notation 'From the Democratic Review.' To date, however, we have not been able to verify that it was originally published there."

~Liz