Editing Webster's Dictionary (section)

=== ''New and Revised Edition'' 1847 ===
Upon Webster's death in 1843, the unsold books and all rights to the copyright and name "Webster" were purchased by brothers [[George Merriam|George]] and Charles Merriam, who then hired Webster's son-in-law [[Chauncey A. Goodrich]], a professor at [[Yale College]], to oversee revisions. Goodrich's ''New and Revised Edition'' appeared on September 24, 1847, and a ''Revised and Enlarged'' edition in 1859, which added a section of illustrations indexed to the text. His revisions remained close to Webster's work, but removed what later editors referred to as his "excrescences".