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Whitman Archive Title: The Dead Tenor
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00185
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Box: 26
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Folder: The Dead Tenor (1884). Proof Sheets.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1884
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, 24 x 15 cm, 10.5 x 16.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Written in pencil on a small page from a notebook, on which is pasted a
clipping from a newspaper about the funeral of Signor Brignoli and the
reaction of Patti, pinned to an unmarked proof of "The Dead Tenor,"
thirty words: "I heard the earliest singing of Patti, (in 1860 if I
remember right)—heard her many times, Brignoli sang with her at her
first appearance in NY in 1859." The poem was first published in
1884.
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