Annotations published for Reconstruction-era letters

I have published annotations for approximately 370 Reconstruction-era letters sent by Walt Whitman. Many people contributed to this work, including Janel Cayer, Eder Jaramillo, Nima Kianfar, Zachary King, Katie Kruger, Courtney Lawton, Liz Lorang, Ken Price, and Sarah Walker. Work on preparing and publishing additional Reconstruction letters and annotations is ongoing.

~Liz

attribution added to a previously anonymous review of 1856 LofG

A review of the 1856 Leaves of Grass that appeared in the The Christian Examiner in November 1856 had previously been marked as anonymous. In February 2013, Ken Price received an e-mail from Gary Scharnhorst, a scholar who had published an article in the Walt Whitman Review in March 1982 (entitled "D. A. Wasson and W. R. Alger on the 1855 Leaves of Grass") in which he presented evidence that attributed the review to William Rounseville Alger. Scharnhorst sent the article to Ken and asked whether we had been aware of his attribution of the review to Alger. Ken found the article's evidence to be convincing, and the change was made to the record of the review. A note was also added, crediting Scharnhorst for the attribution and citing his article.

--Kevin

New scribal documents published

I have published another 450 scribal documents on the Whitman Archive.
These documents were prepared by Anthony Dreesen, Nima Kianfar,
Melanie Krupa, Kevin McMullen, Jonathan Nitcher, and John
Schwaninger, with Ken Price and myself. The addition of these scribal
documents brings the total number of scribal documents available on
the Whitman Archive to nearly 3,000.

~Liz

update to Overview page

I have updated the paragraph about funded projects on the Overview
page (http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/scribal/index.html), to
include current funding from NEH and NHPRC.

~Liz

Revised translations index page

Per Ed Folsom's suggestion, I have added a brief description about the WhitmanWeb to the translations index page. The page now includes the following section on the International Writing Project's translations of "Song of Myself":

"Song of Myself"

The International Writing Project at the University of Iowa, in cooperation with the Whitman Archive and supported by a grant from the United States Department of State, has created the WhitmanWeb, a site devoted to translations of Whitman's 1881 version of "Song of Myself" in multiple languages (currently including Persian, Russian, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese). A new section of the poem, with commentary by Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill and with a recording in English by Eric Forsythe and a recording in Persian by Sholeh Wolpe, is being posted each week, starting in the fall of 2012 and continuing through the fall of 2013 until all 52 sections appear. This site features the first full translation of "Song of Myself" into Persian. The WhitmanWeb may be accessed here

~Janel

New contemporary reviews posted

This afternoon, I posted 18 new reviews to the contemporary reviews section of the Archive. This group of documents includes reviews of Drum-Taps; Good-Bye My Fancy; the 1856, 1860-61 and 1881-82 editions of Leaves of Grass; November Boughs; and Poems by Walt Whitman. Each of these index pages have been updated accordingly.

~Janel

correction to footnote in Civil War correspondence; correction to footnote in 2 pieces of journalism

I've revised the first footnote of
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/cw/tei/duk.00363.html,
George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2 October
1864, to correct the sentence "Almost the entire Fifty-First New York
Regiment was lost in killed (2), wounded (10), and captured or missing
(332)." The note now reads, "Almost the entire Fifty-First New York
Regiment was lost: killed (2), wounded (10), and captured or missing
(332)."

Also, a footnote about George Washington Whitman that appears in two
pieces of published journalism has been updated. In
http://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00205.html
("Return of a Brooklyn Veteran") and
http://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00212.html
("A Brooklyn Soldier, and a Noble One"), the note "George W. Whitman,
Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years, served in the New York
Fifty-first during the Civil War and was wounded at the First Battle
of Fredericksburg. He was taken prisoner at Poplar Grove, Virginia, on
September 30, 1864, and spent time in several Confederate prisons in
the days following his release before being transferred to the prison
at Danville, Virginia, on October 22, 1864. He was released in
February 1865. See Jerome Loving's introduction to the print edition
of the Civil War letters of George Washington Whitman" had been
revised to "George W. Whitman, Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten
years, served in the New York Fifty-first during the Civil War and was
wounded at the First Battle of Fredericksburg. He was taken prisoner
at Poplar Grove, Virginia, on September 30, 1864, and spent time in
several Confederate prisons in the days following his capture before
being transferred to the prison at Danville, Virginia, on October 22,
1864. He was released in February 1865. See Jerome Loving's
introduction to the print edition of the Civil War letters of George
Washington Whitman." (Brett made these changes.)

~Liz