Typo correction in deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass

I happened to notice that two words were run together in our transcription of section #33 of "Song of Myself." What was "beaver patsthe mud" is now "beaver pats the mud."

~Brett

Site Tour Added

The site tour that Eric Conrad put together has been published in the "About" section. I've also added a link from the Archive's homepage.

~ Brett

correspondence TEI updated

I have updated the TEI files for approximately 300 pieces of
Reconstruction correspondence. No changes should be apparent on the
live site. The changes to the encoding of the files is in preparation
for publishing annotations for the Reconstruction letters.

~Liz

New scribal documents posted

Earlier today, I posted 125 additional scribal documents, bringing the
total number of scribal documents available to nearly 400. As part of
this update, I also revised language on the scribal documents index
page to reflect (changing "nearly 2,000" to "nearly 2,400").

~Liz

Encoding of "So Long!" in 1860 LG corrected

Ken noticed that the typeface of the first two lines on p. 452 was different from everything else, and on investigating I discovered that those lines had been put into their own, unnumbered linegroup. I've now revised so that they are correctly grouped with the other lines in linegroup #3. The typeface is now consistent
~ Brett

Addition to "support" page and tweak to the "overview" of the Whitman Archive

Today I added Sterling Publishing to the list of Friends supporting the Whitman Archive.

In addition, I added a mention of the most recent NHPRC grant to our page offering an overview of the Whitman Archive.
            --Ken

annotation revised in a Civil War letter from Thomas Jefferson Whitman

Per Wesley Raabe's suggestion, the third annotation in Thomas Jefferson Whitman's 4 June 1865 letter has been revised from

"As Jeff indicates, this was not the first time some of these children had contributed to Whitman's hospital work. On January 26, 1863, Moses Lane sent Whitman $15.20, including five cents from Willie Durkee and fifteen cents from Miss Kate Lane. Moses Lane commented that these contributors were the only ones "thus far that will have to deny themselves anything" on account of their gifts. Crany may have sent Whitman money in 1863 and 1864 (see Jeff's letters to Walt from April 3, 1863 and March 11, 1864)."

to

"These surnames also appear in the postscript to Walt Whitman's "The Great Washington Hospitals: Life Among Fifty Thousand Sick Soldiers.—Cases of Brooklyn Men" (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 19, 1863: 2). One of the children, Kate Lane, is the daughter of Moses E. Lane. A second is Willie Durkee, presumably the son of the man listed as "E. R. Durkee" in Whitman's postscript. The child of Charles E. Crary ("Crany" in Jeff's letter) has not been identified. As Jeff indicates, this was not the first time some of these children had contributed to Whitman's hospital work. On January 26, 1863, Moses Lane sent Whitman $15.20, including five cents from Willie Durkee and fifteen cents from Miss Kate Lane. Moses Lane commented that these contributors were the only ones "thus far that will have to deny themselves anything" on account of their gifts. Crany may have sent Whitman money in 1863 and 1864 (see Jeff's letters to Walt from April 3, 1863 and March 11, 1864)."

~Janel