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Dead Man's Dump

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AuthorRosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)
TitleDead Man's Dump
NotesFourth Typescript on pink paper, title in pencil with pencil alterations, with some questions as to punctuation changes in lines 20 and 21. The pages are numbered in ink by Annie Rosenberg. In the four canceled lines 'grain' has been corrected to 'green' by Isaac Rosenberg. He was transferred to the 40th Division Works Battalion in January 1917, meaning that part of his responsibility was taking wire up to the line at night.
Item DateJanuary - May 1917
Creation placeFrance
File typeCompound Object
Item sourceFolio
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumTypescript
ContentPoem
Item height260
Item width200
Repository nameImperial War Museum, Department of Documents
Repository address
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London
SE1 6HZ
UK
Repository URLhttp://www.iwm.org.uk/
CataloguerAlisa Miller
CopyrightThe Imperial War Museum/The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate
Digital repositoryThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/1708