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Whitman Archive Title: Death Dogs My Steps
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00120
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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: Death Dogs My Steps (1890). A.MS. draft.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about March 3, 1890
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 19 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Draft of "Death Dogs My
Steps" written in ink on the inside of a discarded and opened
out envelope, addressed to Whitman from England, mailed in London February 21,
1890 and postmarked received in Camden March 3,
1890. The three lines later appeared as part of "L. of G.'s Purport,"
first published in 1891.
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