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Nominating Committee Announces 1981 Officers Slate Jan 1980

Nominating Committee Announces 1981 Officers Slate

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

The Nominating Committee of the Association for Documentary Editing, chaired by Jo Ann Boydston, announces the candidates for election by mail ballot in advance of the Association's 1980 meeting in Williamsburg. The ballot enclosed with this issue of the Newsletter should be completed and mailed promptly to the secretary-treasurer; the 1981 nominees are: President-Elect: Don L. Cook Secretary-Treasurer: Raymond W. Smock Director of Publications: Nathan Reingold Nominating Committee: G. Thomas Tanselle, chairman; Linda Grant DePauw; LeRoy Graf; Kenneth Sanderson; and Michael Richman.


Documentary Reviewing Reviewed: A Survey Of The Book Review Policies Of Selected Historical Journals, Gregg L. Lint Jan 1980

Documentary Reviewing Reviewed: A Survey Of The Book Review Policies Of Selected Historical Journals, Gregg L. Lint

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

Book reviews in many ways are more important for the documentary publication than the monograph. In the latter case the book is published, reviewed, and in a sense forgotten. Multiple volume documentary editions, published over a long period, should receive and, indeed, require constant review, each new volume being compared with the preceding ones. The importance of reviews is no less for smaller selective editions of only a few volumes or on microforms. For the documentary edition, much more a reference book than the monograph, reviews should inform potential users of its utility and help to maintain quality.


Resolutions Jan 1980

Resolutions

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

Resolutions submitted by the Resolutions Committee, Frank G. Burke, Barbara Oberg, and George C. Rogers, Jr., and passed at the ADE business meeting, 30 October 1981.


Errata: One For The Road, Jon Kukla Jan 1980

Errata: One For The Road, Jon Kukla

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

In this fourth number of volume two of the Newsletter, we take our leave by apologizing for a typographical error in the ballot distributed with the September Newsletter. Although the slate of nominees was rendered correctly in the text, a vintage Tredegar Company typewriter (bought no doubt at a Confederate army surplus store) misspelled Michael Richman's name and prepared a ballot that read Michael Richmond. We apologize for that.


Documentary Editing: A Bibliography, Ross W. Beales Jr. Jan 1980

Documentary Editing: A Bibliography, Ross W. Beales Jr.

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

Documentary editing has achieved unprecedented importance in American historical scholarship since the publication in 1950 of the first volume of Julian P. Boyd's edition of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Thanks to the support of state and federal government, foundations, and universities and to the labors of a generation of editors, scores of letterpress and microfilm editions have been completed or are in progress. These editions are noteworthy for their comprehensiveness and high standards of scholarship as well as for their cost. The rapid expansion of documentary editing has been accompanied by the appearance of an extensive literature on all …


A Dialogue: Peter Shaw And Robert J. Taylor On Editing The Adamses, Peter Shaw, Robert J. Taylor Jan 1980

A Dialogue: Peter Shaw And Robert J. Taylor On Editing The Adamses, Peter Shaw, Robert J. Taylor

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

This dialogue is a feature of the Newsletter intended to promote that exchange of ideas for which the Association of Documentary Editing exists. Mr. Shaw was asked to focus his comments both on things done well and on things that might have been done differently-the latter request being an invitation to describe those alternatives to which an editor may, rightly, have said No. The review, with Mr. Shaw's name deleted, was sent to Mr. Taylor, who was asked to comment on the observations. Again, the intention is to foster instructive dialogue. Although the etiquette of some scholarly periodicals suggests that …


Treasurer's Report, 6 November 1979-30 October 1980, Raymond W. Smock Jan 1980

Treasurer's Report, 6 November 1979-30 October 1980, Raymond W. Smock

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

No abstract provided.


The Education Of Editors, Fredson Bowers Jan 1980

The Education Of Editors, Fredson Bowers

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

Ever since the pre-meeting of this organization that I attended in Lawrence, Kansas, the association of historian-editors and of literature-editors has seemed to me to be an auspicious one. Each of our sides has a chance to discuss its own special disciplinary problems in a necessary and useful manner, but always with the consciousness that we are also talking to a similarly oriented group, though in another field. However, in addition, I note that some programming has deliberately fostered what it may be pompous to call "cross-fertilization" but what at least offers the opportunity to survey the one discipline's general …


Where We Stand Now And Where We Might Go, Arthur S. Link Jan 1980

Where We Stand Now And Where We Might Go, Arthur S. Link

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

Incomplete though my own knowledge and wisdom are, this is the time, above all others, when we need to take a hard look at ourselves and what we are doing and not doing; that what we need is honest if unpleasant self-scrutiny, not self-congratulation. The love of God is the beginning of wisdom; but we can neither love God nor acquire wisdom until we are honest about ourselves. Let me hasten to say that the following observations about our deficiencies as documentary editors apply exclusively, I think it is fair to say, to those of us who work in materials …


Twayne And Ford Announce New Series Jan 1980

Twayne And Ford Announce New Series

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

The first two volumes to be published in Twayne's American Literary Manuscripts Series (TALMS)-a comprehensive publishing program for critical, annotated editions of letters, journals, diaries, and unpublished belles letters by American authors-are John Hay and William Dean Howells: Correspondence and Criticism, edited by George Monteiro and Brenda Murphy, and Ellen Tucker Emerson's Life of Lidian Jackson Emerson, edited by Delores Bird Carpenter from the unpublished manuscript written by Ellen, daughter of Lidian and Ralph Waldo Emerson.


Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 2, May 1980. Jan 1980

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 2, May 1980.

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

No abstract provided.


Ade Committees--1980 Jan 1980

Ade Committees--1980

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

Several committees conduct the work of the Association. The chairpersons and their addresses are given here.


What We Would Have Done Differently Now That It Is Too Late, Louis R. Harlan, Raymond W. Smock Jan 1980

What We Would Have Done Differently Now That It Is Too Late, Louis R. Harlan, Raymond W. Smock

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

Without trying to explain away an error that gross, we can only say that it is the kind of error that occurred only once, and occurred in spite of our editorial method rather than because of it. Most of the other outright errors were less egregious: misspelled names; failure to annotate at it appeared in the original, though we doubt that history was changed by the omission of that particular punctuation. We would still continue to correct obvious typographical errors in typewritten or printed documents. Maybe a type does reveal something deeply hidden, but is it deeply hidden in the …


The "Perfect" Text: The Editor Speaks For The Author, David J. Nordloh Jan 1980

The "Perfect" Text: The Editor Speaks For The Author, David J. Nordloh

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

I'd like to offer two preliminary comments about the general topic of this session, the "perfect" text, and another about the aspect of that topic which I've been asked to discuss. On the general topic, our presentations may - indeed should - overlap; no aspect of textual scholarship, theoretical or practical, can be sensibly isolated from the others. And second, the placement of "perfect" in quotation marks in the title of the session is an acknowledgment of the virtual impossibility of the task: as editors we are frustrated by a multitude of conditions - I'll be describing a few of …


Program Committee For 1980ade Meeting In Williamsburg Jan 1980

Program Committee For 1980ade Meeting In Williamsburg

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

John Y. Simon, president-elect of ADE, is chairman of the program committee for the 30 October-1 November 1980 annual meeting, to be held at the Hospitality House, adjacent the campus of the College of William and Mary.


Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 3, September 1980. Jan 1980

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 3, September 1980.

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

No abstract provided.


Mazzei Honored By Italy And U.S. Jan 1980

Mazzei Honored By Italy And U.S.

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

The year 1980 marks the two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Philip Mazzei (1730-1816), the forgotten patriot who emigrated to Virginia in 1773 and joined Jefferson, Henry, and other colonial patriots in the growing independence movement. A United States Airmail Stamp commemorating the anniversary will be issued on 13 October, in Washington, D.C. The stamp has the same design as an Italian stamp to be issued at Poggio a Caiano, Italy, Mazzei's birthplace.


Computers For Word People: Review Of A Guide To Computer Applications In The Humanities By Susan Hockey And Computer Methods For Literary Research By Robert L. Oakman., David J. Nordloh Jan 1980

Computers For Word People: Review Of A Guide To Computer Applications In The Humanities By Susan Hockey And Computer Methods For Literary Research By Robert L. Oakman., David J. Nordloh

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

Any mention of computers among humanists is likely to arouse strong passions, but they are no longer simply the older, more absolute passions of disdain on the one hand for any diabolical plot to train a machine to do human-or, in cases of concordancing and indexing, vaguely inhuman-work, or on the other a wholehearted acceptance of electric salvation from drudgery. They are now more complex emotions: interest in dramatic possibilities but uncertainty about ways to proceed, or happy installation of computer components and processes but an expensive fear that someone, somewhere, is doing the same work better and faster and …


President Presented First Volume Of Andrew Jackson Papers Jan 1980

President Presented First Volume Of Andrew Jackson Papers

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

The first volume of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, published 28 June 1980 by the University of Tennessee Press, was presented to President Jimmy Carter at a recent White House ceremony.


Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 4, December 1980 Jan 1980

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 4, December 1980

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

No abstract provided.


Ade Newsletter: News Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 1, Numbers 1, March 1979 Jan 1979

Ade Newsletter: News Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 1, Numbers 1, March 1979

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

No abstract provided.


How And Why Ade Was Born Jan 1979

How And Why Ade Was Born

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

In April 1978 a group of editors meeting at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, heard John Simon, editor of the U. S. Grant Papers, explain the possible benefits that might result from a national association of documentary editors.


A New Generation Of Editors, Lester J. Cappon Jan 1979

A New Generation Of Editors, Lester J. Cappon

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

As the number of projects increased, more editors were needed; and young historians were gradually attracted toward editing, to some degree impelled by the crisis in the educational marketplace. Editors of the 1950s and '60s had "learned to do by doing," applying their knowledge of historical methods to the task. By and large, they were seasoned historians who responded to the challenge of comprehensive editing and its potential contribution to scholarship. By the 1970s the multiplication of projects raised serious questions about the supply of editors and the training of neophytes. An interesting correlation during the quarter-century 1950-1975 can be …


Editors And Their Work--March 1979 Jan 1979

Editors And Their Work--March 1979

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

Charles Cullen--Donald Jackson--Diane Campbell--Frank Mevers--C. M. Harris--Harold Moser--Fredson Bowers


Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Dies Jan 1979

Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Dies

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

Longtime Assistant Librarian of Congress Elizabeth Hamer Kegan died at 4 a.m. on March 9 at her home in Alexandria, Virginia.


Recent And Notable Jan 1979

Recent And Notable

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

The Papers of Ezra Stiles (1727-1795)--The Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789


Reviewing The Reviewers, William B. Willcox Jan 1979

Reviewing The Reviewers, William B. Willcox

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

The present level of reviewing for our editions is, to my mind, lower than that of the editing itself. Leave aside the occasional critics, high priests of ipsissima verba, who bemoan our textual impurities; look at the average, run-of-the-mill review. It normally contains a paragraph of mild praise for the editing, a paragraph on what the editee, if there is such a word, was doing in the period covered (this can often be written from the jacket blurb), and a paragraph that points out a few errors or, for lack of them, challenges a few specific editorial comments. The result …


Letter From The President, Arthur S. Link Jan 1979

Letter From The President, Arthur S. Link

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

The main purpose of this initial letter is to appeal to each member to constitute himself or herself as an informal member of the Membership Committee in pressing a drive for new members. I also want to emphasize that the Association for Documentary Editing is interested in having among its membership persons doing documentary editing in all fields, including persons who work in texts of ancient history, Arabic texts, medieval manuscripts, literary texts, and so on down to the documents of our own time.


Fifty Attend Oar Luncheon In New Orleans Jan 1979

Fifty Attend Oar Luncheon In New Orleans

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

Growing interest in scholarly editing was evident at the luncheon meeting of ADE recently held in New Orleans during the Organization of American Historians convention.


First Convention Scheduled For November 8-9 At Princeton Jan 1979

First Convention Scheduled For November 8-9 At Princeton

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

President Arthur Link has responded to many requests for a separate ADE convention by calling for a convention November 8 and 9 at the Nassau Inn in Princeton, N.J. Program Chairman Lester Cappon (also vice president of ADE) has asked that all members wishing to participate by delivering papers or, serving on panels should write him with ideas or offers to serve at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, Ill. 60610.