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The Yellow Fever At Quarantine

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  • Title: The Yellow Fever At Quarantine
  • Date: 7 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01266
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 7 July 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: Kaylen Michaelis Tara Ballard Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The Yellow Fever At Quarantine." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01266.xml (TEI)
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THE YELLOW FEVER AT QUARANTINE.—

Considerable anxiety has been awakened by the arrival at Quarantine, within the last two or three days, of several vessels from Cuban ports with cases of yellow fever on board in its must virulent form. Two of these—the American ship Grotto, of Bath, bound to Scotland, and the British ship Suzanne, bound to Liverpool—were obliged to make this port on account of having lost portions of their crews.

The survivors of the crews and passengers were landed and both vessels sent below.

The ship Greenland also arrived yesterday from Havana, the former Captain (Bates of Augusta, Me) having lost his wife and only son by yellow fever. Captain Varnum, formerly first mate of the bark Ocean Home, brought the ship to New York, and was yesterday landed at Quarantine, very sick. Mr. Varnum is a resident of Brooklyn.

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