Announcing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing

News from ADE:

John Jaques – A life.

John Jaques, whose claim to continuing fame is his composition “Truth,” a poem which appeared in the first edition of The Pearl of Great Price and was later set to music, appearing in the present LDS hymnal under the title “Oh Say, What is Truth,” offered this summary of his life, near its end.

Scholarly Editing Internships (March 1 Deadline)

If you are thinking of pursuing a career in the field of documentary editing, you may find the following opportunities of interest:

Summer Institute for Editing Historical Documents, August 5-9.

Attention: Members of ADE and other interested parties:

Institute for Editing Historical Documents

The 2012 Summer Institute for Editing Historical Documents will be held 5–9 August at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Institute will be funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through a grant to the Association for Documentary Editing.

Jonathan Edwards, Freedom, Henry Tappan, Joseph Smith and Foreknowledge

Joseph Smith contributed a copy of Henry Phillip Tappan’s A Review of Edwards’s ‘Inquiry into the freedom of the will.’ to the Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute. The title page contains this quote: