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Whitman Archive Title: A Voice from Death
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Whitman Archive ID: yal.00060
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Box: 3
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Date: June 1889
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten
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This is a signed manuscript of "A Voice from Death," a poem written in response to the Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, flood in the spring of 1889 in which 2,000 people died after a dam
collapsed following torrential rains. This poem was published on June 7, 1889, in
the
New York World.
The
manuscript is the printer's copy and each page is mounted separately and
bound in a volume with a lettered title page and a portrait frontispiece by
E. Whittlesey Kotz.
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