Friday, July 1, 2022

Corrections to 1871-1872 and 1891-1892 Leaves of Grass transcriptions

 Ken spotted a typo in the 1871-1872 "Respondez!" ("obscencly" for "obscenely" on p. 335). User Ira Chernus noticed that the last five poems of the "Fancies at Navesink" cluster were missing from the "individual poems and clusters" view of the 1891-1892 edition. I have corrected both errors.

~ Brett

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Staff page updated

 I updated the staff page with the new summer GRAs at Iowa, as well as updates to the the staff from Nebraska.

- Kevin

Monday, June 20, 2022

Corrected typo in 1881-1882 Leaves of Grass

 Ed noticed that in our transcription of "Song of Myself," on p. 68, a space was missing between "in" and "collars." I have corrected this.

~ Brett

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Fixed broken link in "Interviews" index

 Ashlyn noticed that there was a broken link on the "Interviews" index page. The link to James Scovel's "Walt Whitman: The Author of 'Leaves of Grass' at Home" (16 June 1885) was broken (it was attempting to link to an incorrect item that was not in the interviews directory); I have fixed the problem.

- Kevin

Two typos corrected in With Walt Whitman in Camden

I noticed a typo in the entry for 1889-01-01 (vol. 3, p. 439) and Ed noticed one in the entry for 1888-06-21 (vol. 1, p. 364). I have corrected both.

~ Brett

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Page number corrected for 12 March 1865 piece of journalism

 Ken called my attention to the fact that the metadata for per.00204, a New-York Times article titled "Washington," erroneously listed the page number as 3 rather than 5. I have now corrected this in the TEI header for per.00204 and in the HTML index page for the journalism.

~ Brett

Monday, January 10, 2022

Staff page updated with Advisory Board bios

We have added short bios for the members of the WWA Advisory Board on our staff page, as well as updated the list in light of the passing of Joel Myerson.

- Kevin