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Rare Stephen Crane Manuscript Found

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19911212
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A rare Stephen Crane manuscript depicting life on death row at a New York prison has turned up in a newspaperman's scrapbook contained in the archives of the University of Wyoming.

Titled "The Devil's Acre," the short story describing death row at the New York State Prison at Ossining, better known as Sing Sing, was published by the New York Sun during the summer of 1896.

The work was uncovered at the university's American Heritage Center by John Brower, a graduate student. Brower's research centered on the life of David Gray, a newspaperman and U.S. ambassador to Ireland who published ...

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