The Simms
Initiatives at USC
began in 2010, with major support of the
Watson-Brown Foundation and the University of South
Carolina Libraries. Its goal is to produce a comprehensive
bibliographic database and a complete digital edition of
the significant editions of the separate writings,
together with many of the serial publications, of William
Gilmore Simms. The Initiatives invite the community's
help. Every entry in the database has a place to record
comments and exchange thoughts about the work in question.
Also, users may nominate additional information, whether
about further printings or issues or about separate copies
of the work. Overseas contributors may also nominate
editions of Simms in translation for inclusion.
The result will be a dramatically richer engagement in and understanding of the issues, places, times, and people with whom Simms interacted in person, through his editorial work, or in his voluminous writings.
