I’ve shipped off the ms for the Norton Critical Edition of Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland. The box weighed 6 lbs. Still much work in store, I’m sure, but it’s on to the next phase!

I’ll be in Albuquerque from March 18-20 for the annual meeting of the Am. Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. I’ll be on a panel discussing this book, which I reviewed here.

Cathy Kelly puts Republic of Intellect “at the top of the ‘must-read’ lists of American historians and literary scholars.” I’m blushing!

My co-blogger/co-editor, Cyrus Patell, has hooked up our A History of New York site with companion pages/feeds via Facebook and Twitter. Join us!

Check out the 2009 NYC Bloggers Holiday Guide, produced by thirteen local blogs, including Patell and Waterman’s History of New York. Lots of great gift, entertainment, and volunteering ideas for the holiday season.

for the next few days. I’ll be talking this afternoon, Oct. 29th, at Vanderbilt University, about Elizabeth Whitman’s letters to Joel Barlow, which I’ve finished editing and will be sending to a journal shortly.

Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787), the first play by an American to be professionally staged. The American Company produced it downtown, in the John Street Theater. I’ll be talking briefly — I hope with some early Americanist friends in tow — at the Metropolitan on October 11 following the matinee.

The Department of English and Humanities Initiative at NYU will sponsor a conference I’ve organized with Cyrus Patell, Oct. 2-3: “Lost New York, 1609-2009.” The Fales Library & Special Collections will have up an accompanying exhibit through the fall, curated by a group of our graduate students. The catalog is smashing! Don’t miss it.

On Sept. 25 I’ll be at the McNeil Center at UPenn to talk about a piece I’m currently working on: “Coquetry and Correspondence in Revolutionary Connecticut: Elizabeth Whitman’s Letters to Joel Barlow.” Info on time and location here, as well as instructions for receiving the paper in advance. The event coincides with the Center’s grad student conference, “Fear and Desire: Early America and Its Discontents.”

That would be short for Charles Addison Smith Waterman, born 25 July 2009, safely home with mom and dad and older sisters since Sunday night. Named for ancestors on both sides — Charles (Charlie) Frederick Hansen and Addison Pratt — as well as for this guy, I suppose.