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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.
