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Sample texts for encoding exercises

Below are sample texts for use in the encoding experimentation for the WWP seminar.

1. Encoding multiple witnesses

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, 1855 (excerpt)

Images courtesy Walt Whitman Archive

Page 23: local copy, Whitman Archive copy (start from "I am of old and young")
Page 24: local copy, Whitman Archive copy
Page 25: local copy, Whitman Archive copy

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, 1891 (excerpt)

Page 42: local copy, Whitman Archive copy (start from "I am of old and young")
Page 42: local copy, Whitman Archive copy
Page 43: local copy, Whitman Archive copy

2. Encoding the writing and revision process

Walt Whitman's Hands Round, manuscript draft

Images courtesy Walt Whitman Archive

Leaf 1 recto: local copy, Whitman Archive copy
Leaf 2 rectolocal copy, Whitman Archive copy

Alternatively: Letter from Nicholas Brown to Pardon Sheldon

For those who want more of a challenge: Letter from Nicholas Brown to Esak Hopkins, 1764

leaf 1 recto (verso is blank)
leaf 2 recto
leaf 2 verso
link to live web version (better viewing)

3. Annotation and commentary

Pepys 4.317v: Private Occurrences, or, The Transactions of the four Last Years, Written in Imitation of the Old Ballad of Hey Brave Oliver, Ho Brave Oliver, etc.