The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ellen R. Cohn, Project Director

Work toward the completion of volumes 40 through 44 of the edition of the papers of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
On the web at http://www.yale.edu/franklinpapers/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $450,000 over a period of three years.

Music of the United States of America (MUSA): A National Series
American Musicological Society, Brunswick, ME
Richard Crawford, Project Director

Preparation for publication of volumes 19-24 and continued editorial work on four other volumes.
On the web at http://www.umich.edu/~musausa/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $130,000 over a period of three years.

The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Rice University, Houston, TX
Lynda Crist, Project Director

Preparation for publication of volumes 12, 13, and 14 of the papers of Jefferson Davis.
On the web at http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $135,000 over a period of three years.

Completion of The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Five-Volume Scholarly Edition, with Web Enhancements
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
Sandra Donaldson, Project Director

Completion of a scholarly print edition of the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and continued work on materials designated for electronic presentation.
On the web at http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/sdonaldson/
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Hoyt N. Duggan, Project Director

Continued development of the B critical edition and completion of an archetypal text, as well as completion of documentary editions of A and C manuscripts.
On the web at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seenet/piers/
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.

Monuments of Solfeggi
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Robert O. Gjerdingen, Project Director

Preparation for online free access of the scores and musical sound files of surviving manuscripts of 18th-century solfeggi, or vocal exercises, for voice and bass accompaniment.
On the web at http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/music/gjerdingen/solfeggi/index.htm
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Christopher Hamner, Project Director

Work on the online edition's editorial apparatus and finding aids, including preparation of introductory material, a biographical directory, and a timeline.
On the web at http://wardepartmentpapers.org/
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

The Mark Twain Project
University of California, Berkeley
Robert H. Hirst, Project Director

Completion of editorial work on electronic and print publications of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, and continued adding of Twain's major works to the Mark Twain Project Online.
On the web at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $400,000 over a period of three years.

St. George Tucker Law Papers
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA
Charles F. Hobson, Project Director

To complete annotations, glossary entries, proofreading, introductory material, and other editorial tasks for an edition of the law papers of the influential early American judge and legal scholar St. George Tucker (1752-1827), best known for his edition of Blackstone's Commentaries.
On the web at http://oieahc.wm.edu/tucker/index.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $135,000 over a period of two years.

The Charles Carroll of Carrollton Papers
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Ronald Hoffman, Project Director

Editorial work on the last three volumes of the papers of plantation owner, businessman, and legislator Charles Carroll (1737-1832), the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Offer of Matching Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.

Letters of Samuel Beckett
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Lois More Overbeck, Project Director

Preparation and final editing of Volumes II and III of a four-volume edition of selected letters of Samuel Beckett.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $160,000 over a period of three years.

Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Kenneth Price, Project Director

A comprehensive electronic edition of Walt Whitman's Civil War writings.
To be on the web at http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
Outright Funds of $300,000 over a period of three years.

Digital Writings of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) and Harriott Pinckney Horry (1748-1830), A Founding Mother and Daughter
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Constance B. Schulz, Project Director

Transcription, editorial annotation, completion of reference materials, and digitization of the Pinckney family collections for an online archive.
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of two years.

Dolley Madison Digital Edition
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Holly C. Shulman, Project Director

Work on the second stage of the Dolley Madison digital edition project, including completion of transcriptions, annotation through 1846, and publication through 1844.
On the web at http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu:8080/dmde/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $165,000 over a period of three years.

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Sandra W. Spanier, Project Director

Work on the first four volumes (encompassing the years 1908-39) of a twelve-volume scholarly edition of Hemingway's letters.
Project information on the web at http://www.hemingwaysociety.org/#lettersproj.asp
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

Works of Jonathan Edwards Online
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Harry S. Stout, Project Director

Work toward the completion of the online archive of the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758).
On the web at http://edwards.yale.edu/archive
Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

A Critical Edition of John Donne's Songs and Sonnets and an Expansion of the DigitalDonne Website
Texas A & M University, College Station
Gary Stringer, Project Director

Work on the Variorum Edition of John Donne's poetry and continued development of the DigitalDonne electronic archive.
On the web at http://donnevariorum.tamu.edu/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

Retrospective Digital Editions of Print Editions Published by the Medieval Academy of America, 1925-2001
Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, MA
Paul E. Szarmach, Project Director

The first phase of the retrospective online publication of thirty-eight scholarly print editions of the Medieval Academy of America.
To be on the web at http://www.medievalacademy.org/index.htm
Outright Funds of $120,000 over a period of two years.

A Critical Edition of the James Madison Carpenter Collection
American Folklore Society, Columbus, OH
Robert Y. Walser, Project Director

The third phase of a ten-volume critical edition of the James Madison Carpenter Collection, including final preparation of materials for volumes 2 and 8-10 and continuing music transcription and editing work for other volumes. To be on the web at http://www.loc.gov where the collection is housed; a finding aid to the collection is at http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/carpenter.html, and the catalog of the collection is at http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/.
Outright funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

Richard Rufus Project
Stanford University, California
Rega Wood, Project Director

Preparation for online and print publication of a critical edition of the Latin texts of the works of Richard Rufus of Cornwall, a philosopher-theologian who taught at the Universities of Paris and Oxford from 1235 to 1256.
On the web at http://rrp.stanford.edu/
Outright Funds of $250,000 over a period of three years.