Documentary Editing, Association for

 

Date of this Version

1982

Document Type

Article

Citation

Newsletter of the Association for Documentary Editing, Volume 4, Number 4, December 1982. ISSN 0196-7134

Comments

© Association for Documentary Editing, 1982. Used by permission.

Abstract

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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