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Two new editions of Leaves of Grass make use of materials from the Whitman Archive. McSweeney's two-volume deluxe edition features one volume of the text of Leaves of Grass and another volume of full-page images and transcriptions of related Whitman manuscripts. The new Oxford World's Classics edition, edited by Peter Riley, draws its Leaves of Grass texts from the various editions over the course of Whitman's career. We would like to thank both McSweeney's and Peter Riley for their generous donations in support of the ongoing work of the Whitman Archive.
We are pleased to announce the publication of nearly 800 newspaper editorials, likely authored by Whitman, that appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Times in the late 1850s. This project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, marks the first time that most of these editorials have appeared in print since their initial publication and represents a major reconsideration of Whitman's work during this period.