Great work, I've gone ahead and released it! Thanks!
On 5/2/21 4:51 PM, Vince wrote:
> All right, I believe Thoreau’s Essays
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https://github.com/vr8hub/henry-david-thoreau_essays> is ready for
> review. This one turned into a fair bit of work.
>
> A few notes (most noted in production notes as well):
>
> 1. Two of the essays noted in Emma’s original email, “After the Death
> of John Brown” and “Homer Ossian Chaucer”, had no transcriptions, so
> I typed them from the scans. A third, “Martyrdom of John Brown”, is
> just another name for “After the Death”.
> 2. I added a preface that is a short (20 page) biographical sketch of
> Thoreau written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is from /Excursions/, a
> collection of Thoreau’s nature essays published shortly after his
> death, and seems very applicable and appropriate to me. It’s easy
> enough to take out if you disagree.
> 3. A couple of the essays, “Thomas Carlyle” in particular, were missing
> large chunks of text from their original publication. “Carlyle” was
> missing 4K words, a third of the essay. I typed these in from the
> original scans as well. (All of the above were proofread
> side-by-side with the scans after the typing.)
> 4. “A Yankee in Canada” was previously published as a standalone SE
> production. I combined the chapters into one file to match the rest
> of the essays, and labeled it the same as the rest. It is roughly
> the size of “Chesuncook,” so I didn’t think that was inappropriate.
> 5. I also re-used the cover art from “A Yankee in Canada,” as it is
> apropos for many of the nature essays as well as “Yankee”.
> 6. Modernize spelling makes changes, but they’re all to poems/verse, so
> I did not include them.
> 7. I included bridgeheads on each essay indicating when and where it
> was first published; a couple of them had this information already.
> 8. The order is written order, which occasionally differs from
> publication order; e.g. “The Service” was written in 1840 but not
> published until after his death.
>
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