[Next Project] Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset

[Weijia Cheng]

Transcription: https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/jessie-fauset-plum-bun-1928-full-text

Scans: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000389515

I think the italics got dropped in the transcription, and the transcriptions from this site tend to have a lot of typos, but otherwise this should be straightforward.

[Alex Cabal]

OK! Please send a link to your repo once you start.


On 11/14/25 6:11 AM, 'Weijia Cheng' via Standard Ebooks wrote:
> Transcription: https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-
> digital-anthology/jessie-fauset-plum-bun-1928-full-text

> Scans: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000389515
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> I think the italics got dropped in the transcription, and the
> transcriptions from this site tend to have a lot of typos, but otherwise
> this should be straightforward.
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[Weijia Cheng]

https://github.com/weijia-cheng/jessie-redmon-fauset_plum-bun

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Emma will manage this with Lukas reviewing.

On 11/14/25 1:52 PM, 'Weijia Cheng' via Standard Ebooks wrote:
> https://github.com/weijia-cheng/jessie-redmon-fauset_plum-bun
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> On Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:57:30 PM UTC-5 Alex Cabal wrote:
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> OK! Please send a link to your repo once you start.
>
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> On 11/14/25 6:11 AM, 'Weijia Cheng' via Standard Ebooks wrote:
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[Weijia Cheng]

The text has a reference to "the Crisis, a magazine of the darker races," with "a magazine of the darker races" in italics. This seems to be a reference to the original subtitle of The Crisis ("A Record of the Darker Races") but doesn't exactly match. Do we want to leave this italicized? Should we titlecase it? I'm leaning no to both questions.

[Emma Sweeney]

I think you're right. Remove italics from "a magazine of the darker races".

Emma

[Weijia Cheng]

I noticed that sometimes numbered streets are spelled out ("One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Street") and sometimes in numeric form ("139th Street"). Should I standardize to the numeric form? That seems more typical for streets in NYC today.

[Emma Sweeney]

CMoS 9.51: "Numbered streets. Names of numbered streets, avenues, and so forth are usually spelled out if one hundred or less."

Ex. Ninety-Fifth Street, 122nd Street.

`One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Street` should be changed to `139th Street`.

Emma

[Emma Sweeney]

`One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Street` should be changed to `135th Street`.