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A Democracy Of Knowledge, Henry Wiencek

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

I am very honored to speak to this group today. l owe an enormous debt to the work that you do and I very sincerely thank you for it. Documentary editing has, for me, an almost priestly connotation. I went to a Jesuit high school where my toughest teacher was Fr. Alphonse Yumont, who taught Latin. Every night we had to pore over a long section of Vergil, and the next morning had to translate it aloud in class. Errors were not allowed. And by "errors" I mean any deviations whatever from a precisely literal translation. We were not allowed …

The Beleaguered Widowof West Bilney: Review Of The Remembrances Of Elizabeth Freke. Edited By Raymond A. Anselment. Camden Fifth Series., Aki Chandra Li Beam

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

The manuscripts of Elizabeth Freke's reminiscences are contained in two commonplace books held by the British Ubrary. The larger "white vellum" volume, which includes the earlier reminiscence, also contains letters, recipes, snatches of poetry and history, a survey of the West Bilney estate, and some inventories. The second "brown wallpaper" volume, begun some ten years after the first, also contains copies of rental agreements, land deeds, and financial transactions. These two manuscripts were donated to the British Ubrary in 1941 by Lady Mary Carbury, a descendant by marriage of Elizabeth Freke. Early in the twentieth century, Carbury published the only …

The Civil War Writings Of A "Literary Colonel": Review Of The Complete Civil War Journals And Selected Letters Of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Edited By Christopher Looby, Steven F. Miller

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

Higginson came to his military career as a man of letters, as well as a militant abolitionist. Before the war, he had earned a reputation as an antislavery lecturer and written pieces for the Atlantic Monthly and other journals on topics including natural history, masculine health, and slave insurrections. He took a hiatus from writing for publication during his tenure with the First South Carolina; to do otherwise, he believed, would be "a sort of profaning this experience & mixing incompatible lives" . But he kept a journal of his wartime experiences, which he began editing and mining for articles …

Announcement--Spring 2003

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

2003 Annual Meeting--Happy Birthday to us!

Recent Editions--Spring 2003

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

This quarterly bibliography of current documentary editions published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English language works. In addition, Internet addresses are provided for the editorial project or the publisher.

Ade Committees 2002-2003

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Officers--Committees

Documentary Editing, Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 2003.

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A Patient's Point Of View Nineteenth-Century Syphilis Treatment, Linda A. Fisher

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

This article focuses on the diary's account of one particular episode of illness, but the manuscript in its entirety contains information of greater significance: Mersman's story illustrates the development of the middle class in nineteenth-century America.3 In 1849, when he was twenty-five, Mersman moved to St. Louis, where he and John Clemens Nulsen (1824-1906) established a business and became prominent members of the German-American community (see illustrations p. 17). They rectified whiskey and imported cigars. Nulsen & Mersman bought raw whiskey wholesale, distilled it a second time to increase the alcohol content and remove impurities, added coloring and flavoring, and …

A Monument Completed: The Papers Of Dwight David Eisenhower: Review Of The Presidency: Keeping The Peace: The Papers Of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volumes 18-21. Edited By Louis Galambos, Daun Van Ee, Elizabeth S. Hughes,Janet R. Brugger, Robin D. Coblentz, Jill A. Friedman, And Nancy Kay Berlage., Sharon Ritenour Stevens

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

Eisenhower would be pleased to see the results of the experienced and talented editorial team that completed The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower documentary series in twenty-one volumes (initial projections called for ten). While this review deals with the final four volumes of the Eisenhower Papers Project (The Presidency: Keeping the Peace, Volumes 18 to 21, edited by Louis Galambos, Daun van Ee, Elizabeth S. Hughes, Janet R. Brugger, Robin D. Coblentz, Jill A. Friedman, and Nancy Kay Berlage) housed at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University, a brief retrospective of the entire project is in …

Recent Editions--Winter 2003

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

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

Ade 25th Anniversary Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 14-16 November 2003, Annual Meeting Session Summaries

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

"Model" Editions in the Real World: Round table on the Uses and Future of the Model Editions Partnership DTD--Rethinking the Intersections of Race, Gender and Ethnicity--The literary Editor as Historian: Round table on Editing the Papers of literary Figures--The Challenges of Science and Technology: Editing Extra-Textual Material--Getting Started: Ways to Think About New and Old Projects--On the Left: Editing the Papers of Radicals--"Worth a Thousand Words?"-Electronic Editions Based on Images--

Minutes Of The Ade Annual Business Meeting, The Wyndham, Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 2003

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NHPRC-Sponsored Conference--ADE Council--Treasurer's Report--Committee Reports--New Business

Ade Treasurer's Report, Fiscal Year, September 1, 2002-August 31, 2003, Gary E. Moulton

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

The finances of the Association for Documentary Editing are sound. 91 There has been a decrease in the general budget of $377, giving us unrestricted assets totaling $59,706. This year's slight reduction is mitigated by the large increase from last year ($7,401), and that large overage partly explains the present showing. A portion of the money for last year's conference in Washington, D.C., was received before the fiscal year began, so those monies were reported for the year in which they were received rather than across two years. In the present single-page report the Washington conference looks to have a …

Obituary--Charles W. Polzer

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

Charles W. Polzer, S.J., died in Los Gatos, CA on Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at age 72. Dr. Polzer was born in San Diego, where he attended St. Augustine High School. Upon graduation from Santa Clara University in 1952, he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Los Gatos, CA. His course of studies took him to St. Louis University, MO, and Alma College of Santa Clara University, in Los Gatos, CA. Following his ordination into the priesthood in Los Angeles in 1964, he undertook a period of post-ordination studies in Cordoba, Spain. From 1958 to 1961, while studying for the priesthood, …

Documentary Editing--Cumulative Index, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary 1979-2003

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

The following cumulative index (Documentary Editing 25:4 [Winter 2003]) reflects theories and practices that have changed in the past couple of decades as represented in the annual indexes of the journal (1979-2003) and also the 10th anniversary cumulative index in the December issue of 1989. Major inconsistencies and omissions have been corrected in the current version; differences in indexing decisions remain.

Documentary Editing, Volume 25, Number 4, Winter 2003

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Documentary Editing, Volume 25, Number 4, Winter 2003-Front Matter

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Cover--Photo of Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois--Title page--Publication Page--Contents--Contributors

Editing Bill Gates's E-Mail, Beth Luey

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

Although there has been a great deal of discussion about preserving electronic documents, editors have given little thought to how these would be edited once preserved, and no one has yet proposed an edition of electronic correspondence. Many argue that "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," but I think we need to get our collective head out of the sand and grapple with the relevant issues. Toward that end, I offer a plan for an edition of the e-mail of Bill Gates. It is, at the moment, purely hypothetical, but that could change at any moment.

An Awakened Spirit: Review Of The Selected Papers Of Jane Addams: Volume 7, Preparing To Lead. Edited By Mary Lynn Mccree Bryan, Barbara Bair, And Maree De Angury., Kate Culkin

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The popular image of Jane Addams is "The Angel of Hull House," a -1 matronly woman selflessly devoting herself to helping the nation's immigrants. The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Volume 7, Preparing to Lead, 7860-7887, edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury, illuminates a more complex, and more interesting, woman behind the angelic image. The book, the first of several planned volumes, covers the early years of Addams's life, from her childhood through her graduation from the Rockford Female Seminary. Letters, diary entries, speeches, school essays, poetry, and debates illustrate Addams's intellectual and emotional …

On The Road With President James Monroe: Review Of The Papers Of James Monroe, Volume 1: A Documentary History Of The Presidential Tours Of James Monroe, 1817, 1818, 1819. Edited By Dan Preston And Marlena C. Delong., David R. Hoth

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The first volume of the long-awaited Papers of James Monroe uses mostly ·1 newspaper accounts, supplemented with correspondence and a few memoirs, to record President Monroe's tour of the northern states in 1817, his short tour of the Chesapeake Bay region in 1818, and his tour of the southern and western states in 1819. According to the introduction, these tours were particularly important because they became political events that "allowed the president to take his ideas directly to the people" (xxvii) and thus contributed, somewhat contrary to Monroe's desire to unify the nation, to the emerging shift of American politics …

Awards--Winter 2003

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Jo Ann Boydston Essay Prize--Distinguished Service Award--Lyman H. Butterfield Award--Thomas Jefferson Prize--Call for Nominations The 2004 Lyman H. Butterfield Award

Ade Committees 2003-2004

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Officers--Committees

In Memoriam: E. James Ferguson, 1917-2002, Elizabeth M. Nuxoll

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

E. James (Jim) Ferguson, founding editor and project :L,. director of The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784, died at his home in Maryland on September 11, 2002, at age 85.

Ade Committees 2002-2003

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Documentary Editing, Volume 24, Number 4, December 2002--Front Matter

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Cover--Publication Information Page

Documentary Editing, Volume 24, Number 4, December 2002.

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Confessions Of A Deceitful Correspondent, Mary Jo Kline

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

In evaluating personal correspondence, most editors must spend considerable time speculating on authorial intention and the responses of the women and men who were the intended audience for each letter. Tonight I shall discuss what may be learned from an archive of letters where little such informed guesswork is necessary. At least on my part.

Scholarly Editions And The National Endowment For The Humanities, Bruce Cole

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

Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here. I am an admirer and grateful user of a number of documentary editions produced by people in this room. On a small scale, as an editor of a scholarly edition of Ridolfi's The Life of Titian, I experienced the rigors and rewards of your special kind of academic labor. The work is painstaking, repetitive, sometimes tedious. For many editions, scholars must invest decades in close reading, collaborative research, and careful transcription.

But your work has permanence and resonance. It is significant that some scholarly editions are published on paper meant to last …

The Ideal Of Professional Housekeeping: Review Of Catharine E. Beecher And Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman S Home. Edited By Nicole Tonkovich., Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

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

When sisters Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe published The American Woman's Home, or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful and Christian Homes in 1869 as both a textbook for girls' schools and a home reference work, the new book quickly became the standard in its field. It replaced, and drew heavily from, Catharine's earlier Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841). In addition, the sisters used material from columns written by Harriet, and in some instances copiously quoted male authorities on certain subjects. The result was not a book to …

Recent Editions--December 2002

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

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