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Documentary Editing, Volume 23, Number 1, March 2001.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Two Hundred Years Of Acquiring The Fifty Years Of The Colonial Records Of Georgia: A Chapter In Failure In Historical Publication, Robert Scott Davis Jr.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

In 1799, Georgia made the earliest attempt of any state to obtain copies of its colonial records from Europe. The history of its subsequent efforts to obtain and publish this earliest documentation well represents the problems and attempted solutions made by the many other such projects in the two centuries that followed. After all of the efforts to make its colonial records accessible, the state still does not have . a complete and credible publication of these records, and this goal remains elusive.

Part of the difficulty stems from decisions on editing, problems that originated in the acquisition of copies …

Wordsworth Senex: Review Of The Cornell Wordsworth: Last Poems, 1821-1850, Ed. Jared Curtis, With Associate Eds. April Lea Denny-Ferris And Jillian Heydt-Stevenson., Donald H. Reiman

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The Cornell Wordsworth is one of the most ambitious and, on the whole, one of the most successful multi-volume literary editions of our time. Nearly forty years ago, General Editor Stephen M. Parrish and other senior Wordsworthians conceived the project as a way to rescue the reputation of William Wordsworth (WW) from what they regarded as his mistaken tendency to age his poems as though they were fine wine by repeatedly revising them (some for . nineteen years or more) before he finally released them for publication. An original aim of the Cornell Wordsworth was, therefore, to make available from …

Documentary Editing--Index To Volume 22

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Documentary Editing, Volume 23, Number 1, March 2001--Front Matter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Nhprc November Meeting

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

At its November 14, 2000, meeting, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) recommended grants totaling up to $3.8 million for 47 projects. The Commission described competition for funding as "fierce," with requests under consideration at this meeting exceeding $8 million. While reaffirmning its support for the Founding Era documentary editions, the Commission noted a substantial increase in the number and quality of grant proposals in the State Board and Electronic Records Programs. The Commission was able to maintain last year's level of funding for the Founding Era documentary editing projects. However, the NHPRC Fellowship Programs in Archival Administration …

The Association For Documentary Editing, 2001 Ade Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Raleigh, North Carolina, will play host to the 24th annual meeting of the ADE, October 4-6, 2001. Centrally located on the Eastern Seaboard about halfway between New York and Florida--only a few hours from the beach or the mountains-Raleigh is in the middle of one of America's most beautiful states. One of the Southeast's best visitor destinations, it is North Carolina's capital city area as well as the center for history, culture, the arts, and education. Raleigh also is the largest city in a metropolitan area known as the Research Triangle. The area is home to more than twenty Free …

Recent Editions--March 2001

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This quarterly feature provides a bibliography of current documentary editions published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture and is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works.

Ade Committees 2000-2001

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Documentary Editing, Volume 22, Number 4, December 2000.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Documentary Editing, Volume 22, Number 4, December 2000--Front Matter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Shifting Proslavery Ideology: Review Of Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings Of Zephaniah Kingsley, Ed. Daniel W. Stowell., Trenton Hizer

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Balancing Evils Judiciously is a volume in which quality more than makes up for a lack of quantity, In this slender work, Daniel W Stowell, director and editor of the Lincoln Legal Papers, presents the unique proslavery writings of Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr., of Florida: eight letters, articles and documents by Kingsley, and one published letter by L. Maria Childs, the noted New York abolitionist with whom he was acquainted. Kingsley's few works on slavery would easily be lost in the volumes of antebellum proslavery writings, if not for the singular position he took on the peculiar institution. His personal experiences, …

Deep Pockets And Determination: Review Of Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon Fbi Files. By Jon Wiener., Stephen R. Mackinnon

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The narrative in Gimme Some Truth runs a slim and trim 104 pages. The story is familiar and well told: the FBI and CIA were put to political use in 1972 by President Richard Nixon (at the suggestion of Senator Strom Thurmond) to safeguard Nixon's reelection. Not startling news. The new twist is the case study involving the greatest pop culture celebrity icon of the 1960s and early 1970s-John Lennon of Beatles fame. For a while, engineering Lennon's deportation before the Republican National Convention seemed to be the Haldeman-Nixon-Hoover goal. The more interesting and original sub-theme is the way Wiener …

The Ade Annual Meeting Sessions, Oakland, California, October 5-7, 2000

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Editing California Writers--The ADE Breakfast--Documentary Editing in the Digital Age--Documentary Scholarship in the Bay Area--Recent Developments in the Fashioning of Electronic Databases--The Book, the Byte, and the Bread: A Forum--Editing the Spanish Southwest.

Distinguished Service Awards

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The Distinguished Service Award is given to members of the Association for Documentary Editing who have not only proven active contributors to the welfare of the membership but have surpassed conventional expectations both in the extraordinary degree to which they have displayed their commitment to the mission of the association and in the high quality of the work they have performed to ensure the realization of its aims. Two awards were presented this year.

Frank E. Grizzard, Jr.--Ann Gordon

Recent Editions--December 2000

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This quarterly feature provides an annotated bibliography of current documentary editions published on subjects in tbe fields of American and British history, literature, and culture and is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works.

Business Meeting, Oakland, California, October 5, 2000, Secretary's Report

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

2000 Election--Membership--Documentary Editing Microfiche--ADE Website and Mailings

Ade Committees 2000-2001

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Ade Treasurer's Report, Fiscal Year September 1, 1999-August 31, 2000

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Income--Expenses--Cash on Hand--Julian P. Boyd Award Fund--Jo Ann Boydston Award Fund

"Like Liberty And Union": Stanton And Anthony As Friends, Ann D. Gordon

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

While deciding upon an appropriate topic for this address, I realized that like athletes who head to Disneyland, I, after this big game, wanted most of all to take the next train back to the nineteenth century. So, to celebrate the end of my presidential term, I will start that return journey, speaking about the friendship between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, or more precisely, about the intersection of this friendship with documentary scholarship.

Annotating Mr. Fitzgerald, James L.W. West Iii

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Anyone who has written historical notes for a scholarly edition has learned to spot "glossable" references in contemporary texts. Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound, for example, will s0meday need annotations about the quiz-show scandals of the 1950s and about Charles Van Doren and Herbert Stempel, contestants whose lives were ruined by the disclosures. Don DeLillo's Underworld will require a description of Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, along with some information about]. Edgar Hoover's cross-dressing and his liaison with Clyde Tolson. Lee Smith's novels will need identifications of Post Toasties and of Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs (whose big hit song …

Documentary Editing, Volume 22, Number 3, September 2000.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Nhprc Recommends Grants

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

At its meeting on May 9 and 10, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission recommended that the Archivist of the United States make grants totaling $3.1 million to 52 competitive applicants. Of this, $2,248,285 is for 34 documentary editing projects and $10,000 is for a documentary editing subvention.

Anglo-I Atin's Scholarlyeolleagues: Editing The Oxford Medieval Texts: Review Of The Book Of The Foundation Of Walden Monastery. Diana Greenway And Leslie Watkiss, Ed. And Trans., Elaine E. Whitaker

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery contains at least two stories. The overt story is of marginalized medieval monks trying to secure their assets. This story--told in Latin with a translation on facing pages, normalized spelling, and twentieth-century punctuation-makes a lively read for anyone interested in human behavior. It concerns a twe1fthcentuty nobleman who founds an abbey using some of his least promising land, subsequently gets himself excommunicated and then killed in a pique over injustices done to him, and is succeeded by an array of kin, including a presumed bastard (Geoffrey fitz Peter), who allegedly subtract rather …

The Association For Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, October 5-7, 2000, Berkeley, California

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The ADE'S annual meeting will be held Thursday to Saturday, October 5-7, in Berkeley, California. The registration fee for forms postmarked after 8 September and for those registering at the convention in Berkeley is $55.

Conference program

Documentary Editing, Volume 22, Number 3, September 2000--Front Matter

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His Own Vine And Fig Tree: Review Of The Papers Of George Washington: Retirement Series. Volume L-March 4-December 28,1797; Volume 2-Janual)' 2-September 15,1798; Volume 3, September 16, 1798-Aprili9, 1799; Volume4-April 20-December 15, 1799. Dorothy Twohig, Editor; Philander D. Chase, Senior Associate Editor; Beverly H. Runge, Associate Editor; Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., Edward G. Lengel, Mark A Mastromarino, Elizabeth B. Mercer, And Jack D. Warren, Assistant Editors; W. W. Abbot, Editor Emeritus., Mary A. Y. Gallagher

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The four-volume Retirement Series of The Papers o/George Washington includes the ex-president's correspondence from March 4, 1797, the day following John Adams's inauguration as the nation's second president, until December 10,1799, four days before Washington's death. The fifth and final subset of The Papers and the third to be completed, it provides us with an immeasurably richer portfolio on the final years of Washington's life than is available from John C. Fitzpatrick's previously published The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799 (Washington, 1931-1944), While Fitzpatrick published a substantial number of the letters -written by Washington during …

Recent Editions--September 2000

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This quarterly feature provides an annotated bibliography of current documentary editions published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture and is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works.

2000 Ade Contributors, Ade Sustaining, Patron, And Life Members

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The Association for Documentary Editing thanks its contributors and its sustaining, patron, and life members. Those whose dues or contributions were received by 15 July 2000 are listed below. ADE dues are payable in January. If you have not yet done so, please pay your 2000 dues now: $25 Regular; $40 Sustaining/Overseas/Institutional; $70 Patrons; $15 Student/Retired; and send to Susan Holbrook Perdue, ADE Secretary, Papers of John Marshall, Box 8781, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781. Thank you.

Annotation Control And Computers: A Case Study Of The Salmon P. Chase Papers Project, Leigh Johnsen

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Computers have become permanent features on editing projects. Gone is much of their novelty, as well as major debates over their value and appropriateness. Instead, current evidence suggests widespread acceptance of digital technology for a variety of major functions, from transcription and typesetting to document control and indexing. Thanks to the World Wide Web, computers also apparently hold promise of changing the very nature of documentary editing, perhaps in ways that can only be imagined at present.

Despite these developments, however, editors have tended to overlook the potential of computers to control annotation research. Indeed, current evidence suggests that they …