Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Whitman Archive Title: But when a voice in our hearing

Whitman Archive ID: loc.01018

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.

Box: 32

Series: Literary File

Date: Between 1850 and 1855

Genre: prose

Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten

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Content: This manuscript discusses the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and issues of state sovereignty. It was probably written not long after the law's passage, likely between 1850 and 1855.

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

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