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The Longfellow Letters: Review Of The Letters Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edited By Andrew Hilen, Volume V (1866-1874), Volume Vi (1875- 1882)., Edward L. Tucker Jan 1983

The Longfellow Letters: Review Of The Letters Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edited By Andrew Hilen, Volume V (1866-1874), Volume Vi (1875- 1882)., Edward L. Tucker

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

With the publication of these two volumes, Andrew Hilen brings to a conclusion his monumental work consisting of the extant letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-- 1882). These last two volumes complete a project that began in 1966 and ended in 1982, one hundred years after the death of the poet.

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The "Authentic" Witness: The Editor Speaks For The Document, Wayne Cutler Jan 1982

The "Authentic" Witness: The Editor Speaks For The Document, Wayne Cutler

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

For several years now literary and historical editors have been "talking shop" in their attempt to isolate what, if anything, they share of a common editorial method. Regrettably, the more we have talked the more defensive our thinking has become. David J. Nordloh's essay in the May 1980 issue of the ADE Newsletter, "The 'Perfect' Text: The Editor Speaks for the Author," demonstrated to my chagrin the occasional depths of our mutual misunderstandings. Hoping that subsequent commentary would obviate the need for my making a self-pleading rejoinder, I have postponed the present answer for some eighteen months. The ADE Newsletter …

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The Power Of Positivist Babble Or, Two Anecdotes Declining Toward A Conclusion: Review Of Literary & Historical Editing. Edited And With Introductions By George L. Vogt And John Bush Jones., Jon Kukla Jan 1982

The Power Of Positivist Babble Or, Two Anecdotes Declining Toward A Conclusion: Review Of Literary & Historical Editing. Edited And With Introductions By George L. Vogt And John Bush Jones., Jon Kukla

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

The seven components of Literary & Historical Editing are three introductory pieces (two by the editors and the third, a survey of modern literary and historical editions, by James Thorpe), essays by George C. Rogers, Jr., and G. Thomas Tanselle on textual editing, and two discussions of annotation. Martin C. Battestin's suggestions about literary annotation-which have also been published in volume 34 of Studies in Bibliography (1981)struck me as sensible and clear, especially if one may accept at face value his disclaimers: that he is not"trying to do for the literary annotator what Greg has done for the textual editor,» …

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Interpretation In Editing: The Gallatin Papers, Barbara Oberg Jan 1982

Interpretation In Editing: The Gallatin Papers, Barbara Oberg

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

I think I will plunge right in, and propose that not only is interpretive editing all that we can do, not only is it proper, but that it is the best chance we have of producing works of history which will stand as classics of historical writing. I want to use as an example of a good, classic, interpretive, edition of correspondence and published writings, Henry Adams's three-volume edition of Writings of Albert Gallatin. This is the edition of Gallatin's writings which scholars now have, and which they had for about the last century. In 1877 Henry Adams was engaged …

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In Response To Reagor, John Y. Simmon Jan 1982

In Response To Reagor, John Y. Simmon

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

In urging us to rethink the issue of federal financial support for historical editing down to the fundamental level of what deserves this support and why, Ms. Reagor has done us all a favor. The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has a long prehistory dating back to the seminal thought of J. Franklin Jameson; a period of good intentions and inactivity (1934-50); the age of Jefferson-or of Julian P. Boyd-(1950-64); expanded powers with the addition of grant funding (1964- 75); and finally, a bifurcated role with the addition of a records program to its initial mandate. Throughout, there has …

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Historical Editing: The Federal Role, Simone Reagor Jan 1982

Historical Editing: The Federal Role, Simone Reagor

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

When I began work on this paper, I started from the assumption that I would discover a range of arguments to justify continued federal funding for documentary editing through the powers of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission structured much as we have come to know it. My effort to think through this question has, instead, brought me to quite another position. Whatever options we may now have about federal funding, I no longer believe that we should replicate what we have had before. I do not believe it is wise to continue funding for historical editing through the …

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Review Of Journal (Volume I: 1837-1844) By Henry D. Thoreau; Edited By John C. Broderick, Elizabeth Hall Witherell, William L. Howarth, Robert Sattelmeyer, And Thomas Blanding., Philip F. Gura Jan 1982

Review Of Journal (Volume I: 1837-1844) By Henry D. Thoreau; Edited By John C. Broderick, Elizabeth Hall Witherell, William L. Howarth, Robert Sattelmeyer, And Thomas Blanding., Philip F. Gura

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

The recent appearance from Princeton University Press of the first volume (1837-1844) of Thoreau's massive Journal is a signal event for scholars of American literature, and any who doubt the fact need only read the editors' "General Introduction" (intended as a prefatory statement to the entire publication project) to learn why. The tale told therein of Thoreau's friends' and previous editors' conscious and unconscious alterations of his text recalls the ill treatment afforded another classic American writer at the hands of her friends and editors. Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Martha Dickinson Bianchi perhaps did Emily Dickinson's readers …

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Microform Editions Of Documentary Collections: Where Do We Stand? And Where Do We Go From Here?, Thomas E. Jeffrey Jan 1982

Microform Editions Of Documentary Collections: Where Do We Stand? And Where Do We Go From Here?, Thomas E. Jeffrey

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

The following essay is intended to serve as a brief introduction to the world of scholarly micro-publishing. It will begin with a discussion of commercial micro-publishers and the contributions they can make towards the publication of a high-quality microform edition. It will also allude to some recent developments in the micro-publication of documentary collections, such as comprehensive microfiche editions and microfiche supplements to printed books, computer-generated microfiche, and selective (rather than comprehensive) microform editions. The essay will not include a technical discussion of microforms or a step-by-step description of how to prepare a collection of documents for filming. Information about …

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Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 2, May 1982. Jan 1982

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 2, May 1982.

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

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Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 4, December 1982. Jan 1982

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 4, December 1982.

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

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The Library Of America, Jo Ann Boydston Jan 1982

The Library Of America, Jo Ann Boydston

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

The spring 1982 publication of the first four volumes of The Library of America (Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Whitman) inaugurated a series that is expected to produce and keep permanently in print more than one hundred volumes. Four more volumes (Mark Twain, Howells, and two of Jack London) will have appeared by the time this account is published. These volumes are the initial concrete expression of a movement dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s to collect, preserve, publish, and disseminate widely the best texts of classic American writings.

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Review Of Selected Works Of Jawaharlal Nehru: An Introduction, Lakshman Dewani Jan 1982

Review Of Selected Works Of Jawaharlal Nehru: An Introduction, Lakshman Dewani

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

The publication of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru was undertaken by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi in 1968. The object was to help build a corpus of Nehru's writings and speeches on a variety of subjects which span over a period of fifty years of active political life of one of this century's foremost public leaders and statesmen. It was a stupendous task to collect his writings from various sources, ranging from government archives to private individuals. The task was, however, made less difficult by the availability of a large number of Nehru's letters and other …

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Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 1, February 1982. Jan 1982

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 1, February 1982.

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

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Review Of The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic Text. Edited By J. A. Leo Lemay And P. M. Zall., Joel Myserson Jan 1982

Review Of The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic Text. Edited By J. A. Leo Lemay And P. M. Zall., Joel Myserson

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

There is rarely unanimity of opinion about how manuscripts should be edited. Some argue for a literati m transcription, others for silent emendations made for reader utility. But what of texts where the process of composition is as important as the finished product? The editors of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic . Text have had to face this question, and their solution will be of use to us all.

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Letters To The Editor--September 1982, Fredson Bowers Jan 1982

Letters To The Editor--September 1982, Fredson Bowers

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

In the May 1982 Newsletter, p. 9, I was happy to see Joel Myerson's notice of my system for transcribing manuscripts (Studies in Bibliography 29 [1976]: 212-264). I should like to add a few comments on what I take to be the peculiar virtues of this system as against the so-called genetic-text system using various symbols, not all of which are agreed upon by editors and which strain a lay reader's memory if my own difficulty in reading such texts is any guide.

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Letter To The Editor--December 1982, Douglas Emory Wilson Jan 1982

Letter To The Editor--December 1982, Douglas Emory Wilson

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

Two items in the September 1982 Newsletter deal with matters I should like to comment on: Philip F. Gura's review of the Thoreau Journal, Vol. I, in which he compares the editorial methods of that edition with those of the Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks UMN); and Fredson Bowers' letter to the Editor, commenting on differences between the systems used to record manuscript alterations (or to present a genetic text) in the Emerson JMN and in Professor Bowers' editions of William James and others.

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Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 3, September 1982. Jan 1982

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 3, September 1982.

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

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"Goodbye Gutenberg" Part 1 Jan 1981

"Goodbye Gutenberg" Part 1

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

Such was the title of a recent PBS program on the current information revolution made possible by electronics. Some of the opportunities which this technology offers to historical editors were explored at a conference in Philadelphia on 4-5 May 1981 entitled "Modern Technology and Historical Editing: National Historical Publications and Records Commission Word Processing Conference." The program focused on the use of word processors and computers by historical editors to expedite the publication of multi-volume printed editions.

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Proposed Editing Manual: Background, David J. Nordloh Jan 1981

Proposed Editing Manual: Background, David J. Nordloh

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

In his presidential address at the ADE meeting in Princeton in November 1979, Arthur Link suggested that the profession's most obvious need was for "an authoritative manual on documentary editing." As a first step, Lester Cappon, the incoming president, suggested the formation of a committee whose first objective would be to determine the practicability of ADE producing a manual, and whose next objective (assuming the first was decided in the affirmative) would be to prepare a set of preliminary guidelines to be discussed at the annual meeting in Williamsburg in October 1980. Richard Showman (Nathanael Greene Papers) agreed to chair …

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Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 3, September 1981 Jan 1981

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 3, September 1981

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Editorial Practices--An Historian's View, Robert J. Taylor Jan 1981

Editorial Practices--An Historian's View, Robert J. Taylor

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

All those engaged in the editing of literary and historical documents are deeply in debt to Dr. Tanselle for his thorough analysis of the editorial standards that have been set for the dozens of projects now going forward. Somewhat to the embarrassment of the profession, he has seized upon individual statements of editorial practice that have internal inconsistencies and that are in conflict with the editor's actual practice. And although his article, now before us for discussion, is aimed primarily at the shortcomings of historical editors, he has not let the literary fraternity escape unscathed, some of whom, he finds, …

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"Goodbye Gutenberg" Part 2 Jan 1981

"Goodbye Gutenberg" Part 2

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

This is the conclusion of a summary of "Modern Technology and Historical Editing: National Historical Publications and Records Commission Word Processing Conference, " held in Philadelphia in May 1981.

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Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 2, May 1981. Jan 1981

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 2, May 1981.

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

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Dearth And Bias: Issues In The Editing Of Ethnohistorical Materials, Patricia Galloway Jan 1981

Dearth And Bias: Issues In The Editing Of Ethnohistorical Materials, Patricia Galloway

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

It is in these two problem areas, lack of material and ethnocentric bias, that the historical editor can best offer help to the ethnohistorian. The importance of any single early colonial document containing description of preliterate peoples in North America is almost incalculable. In some few instances our knowledge of the very existence of individual tribes rests upon such a single document. 5 For this reason the historical editor should consider the needs of ethnohistory when he is choosing documents to edit for publication. The modern growth of interest in social history has broken the hold of the "Great White …

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Editors And Critics, John Y. Simon Jan 1981

Editors And Critics, John Y. Simon

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

John Y. Simon delivered this address as outgoing president of the Association for Documentary Editing at the third annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, in October 1981.

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Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 1, February 1981. Jan 1981

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 1, February 1981.

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The Short Happy Thesis Of G. Thomas Tanselle, Don L. Cook Jan 1981

The Short Happy Thesis Of G. Thomas Tanselle, Don L. Cook

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

You will be relieved to know that the sheaf of pages I hold in my hand does not constitute the paper I intend to inflict upon you this morning. It is instead a Xerox copy of Tom Tanselle's article "The Editing of Historical Documents" as it appeared in the 1978 volume of Studies in Bibliography. I display it in this way for two contrasting reasons. First, it provides the physical evidence of one salient fact of Tom's critical scholarship. That is, when he writes on a topic he writes on all of it. There is an encyclopedic quality to his …

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Review Of The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts Of The War For IndependenceJohn C. Dann, Ed., Constance B. Schulz Jan 1981

Review Of The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts Of The War For IndependenceJohn C. Dann, Ed., Constance B. Schulz

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

The Revolution Remembered makes a major contribution to scholarship of the Revolutionary War by bringing together in one volume a sampling of the rich resources of the common soldier's memory of that war as found in the Revolutionary War Pension and Land Warrant Records in Record Group 15 of the National Archives. Any student of the revolution who has used these records is aware of their virtually untapped potential for interpreting the way in which the war affected the common soldier both during the military campaigns themselves and in the decades after the men returned to their communities and families. …

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Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 4, December 1981. Jan 1981

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 4, December 1981.

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

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Selection And Annotation: Deciding Alone, Barbara Oberg Jan 1980

Selection And Annotation: Deciding Alone, Barbara Oberg

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

I am interested that the Association for Documentary Editing would have a panel on the solo editor, because since reading Don Higginbotham's piece in the March issue of the ADE Newsletter the idea of the solo editor as a particular species of the genus of historical editor has intrigued me. As the single, sole, solo editor of the Papers of David Hartley, and as the associate editor of The Papers . of Philip Mazzei, I am presently both a solo editor and a team editor. I feel, therefore, sensitive to the difficulties which the solo editor shares with other editors, …

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