Corrections

The following errors in the print edition have been corrected in the digital edition. We acknowledge the assistance of Joan Harding, Kathryn James, Jerome McGann, Dorothy Mermin, Hedley Sutton, and Herbert Tucker in suggesting and verifying corrections.

Volume 1

• p. xiv. “... in 1859, when the Newcastle Commission dispatched him. ... His diary for that period, printed here for the first time”: “printed here for the first time” deleted.
• p. 7. Thomas Arnold and Mary Penrose Arnold to Matthew Arnold, note 1, “Rubgy was founded …”: “Rubgy” corrected to “Rugby.”
• p. 9. Several transcription errors corrected in “Mary Penrose Arnold to Matthew Arnold”: “occupied” → “engaged”; “[?]assure” → “give”; “[?]necessary” → “weeks”; “[?]seemed” → “looked”; “sure-footed” → “sure-footted”
• p. 11. Line 1. Transcription or typographical error: “Crabbl” → “Crabby”; MS source corrected to Balliol College.
• p. 90, n. 3. “(Arnold did not write ‘ruling class.’)”: deleted.
• p. 92. Footnote numeration corrected.
• p. 175. Transcription error: “to K’s history” deleted from end of letter.
• p. 225, n. 1, “The Bensons elude identification.” Not updated, but in correspondence to UVa Press, Joan N. Harding suggests that “Miss Benson” is Sarah Jane Benson, daughter of Thomas Starling Benson and the sister of Florance John Benson. Cf. Dorothy M. Bayliffe and Joan N. Harding, Starling Benson of Swansea (D. Brown & sons, 1996).
• pp. 277–78. “To Mary Penrose Arnold” was an accidental duplication of the same letter (correctly dated) on pp. 300–301. The first instance has been deleted from the collection, while its second note now replaces original note 2 on p. 301. Index entries pointing to the deleted document have been removed.
• p. 316, “Jane Martha Arnold Forster to Thomas Arnold.” Transcription errors: “worthy” → “worldly” in line 3; “striking” → “shrieking defiance” in second line from end.
• p. 335, n. 2. Source attribution to Webb has been clarified.
• p. 338, n. 3. Anne Jameson Letters and Friendships (1812–1860): “Anne” corrected to “Anna.”
• p. 380, n. 1., “See above p. 378–79” corrected to “See above p. 371 n. 1.”
• p. 425, n. 2. Note moved to accompany Arnold’s diary entry on p. 423.

Volume 2

• p. 14, “To James Cadbury”: note superscript 1 had no correponding note; a note has been added cross-referencing the identification of James Cadbury in volume 1.
• p. 343, n. 2, “(see below p. 000)”: cross-reference has been provided to Arnold’s last reference to Vinet in a letter from July 1887.

Volume 3

• p. 143, “To William Henry Joyce.” Transcription or typographic error: “With sincere and revewed thanks” corrected to “With sincere and renewed thanks” (with appreciation to Kathryn James of the Beinecke Library, Yale University, for verifying the correction against the original document).
• p. 325, “To Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff.” Transcription or typographic error at end of first sentence, “is important to life and comfort, expecially in India” corrected to “especially in India” (with appreciation to Hedley Sutton of the British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, for verifying the correction against the original document).

Volume 4

• p. 174, “To Charles Edward Appleton”: typo “begnining” in 7th line corrected to “beginning.”
• p. 183, “To Thomas Arnold”: corrected transcription of Greek quotation from Sophocles.
• p. 288, “To Richard Henry Horne,” n. 1, “his Cosimo de’Medici . . .”: spelling of Horne’s title corrected to Cosmo de’Medici.

Volume 5

• p. 271, “To Hannah Jane Lampson Locker”: note superscript corrected.

Volume 6

• p. 339, “To Lucy Charlotte Arnold Whitridge,” note 5: new identification of “the Brownings” suggested by John Woolford, University of Sheffield, and confirmed by Rita Patteson, Baylor University.
• p. 355, “To Lucy Charlotte Arnold Whitridge,” note 4: new identification of “Fannie Browning” suggested by John Woolford, University of Sheffield, and confirmed by Rita Patteson, Baylor University.

All volumes

• List of “Short Titles and Abbreviations”: publication date for “Harding” (Joan N. Harding, From Fox How to Fairy Hill) corrected to 1986.
• Chronology: “Retires as Inspector of Schools” moved from 1887 to 1886.