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The Water Celebration

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  • Title: The Water Celebration
  • Date: 20 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00674
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 20 December 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elva Moreno Del Rio Samantha Gilmore Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The Water Celebration." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00674.xml (TEI)
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THE WATER CELEBRATION.—

The Committee on the Water celebration have decided to postpone their report for the present, as it is uncertain at what time the works will be ready for the general introduction of water. The erection of the machinery is progressing as speedily as possible, but in so large a work it is impossible to tell how long it will take to complete it. It is probable that the celebration will not come off much before the 1st of May.

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