Contents
Foreword by John Bryant
Introduction
Chronology
[Selected Remarks by Melvill(e) Family Members, 1819–1840]
[Charles Van Loon, Herman Melville, and Unidentified Contributors], [Remarks in the Albany Microscope, with Melville’s Replies, 1837 and 1838]
[William J. Moses], “Young Men’s Association” (1858)
Evert A. Duyckinck, [Epistolary and Diary Remarks, 1846–1856]
Evert A. Duyckinck, [Cornelius Mathews], James T. Fields, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick II, [Berkshire Social Events, August 1850]
Evert A. Duyckinck and [Sarah Huyler Morewood], [Berkshire Social Events, August 1851]
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, [Epistolary Remarks, 1850–1852]
Nathaniel Hawthorne, [Journal Remarks, 1851 and 1856]
“Maherbal” [Matthew Henry Buckham], [A Private Dinner with Hawthorne, 1852]
From The Men of the Time (1852)
Maunsell B. Field, From Memories of Many Men and of Some Women (1874)
Richard Lathers, From Reminiscences of Richard Lathers (1907)
Evert A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck, From Cyclopædia of American Literature (1855)
[Thomas Powell], “Herman Melville, Romancist” (1856)
Titus Munson Coan, [Epistolary and Diary Remarks, 1859, 1891, and 1919] and “Herman Melville” (1891)
John Thomas Gulick, [Journal Remarks, 27 April 1859]
Charles Hemstreet, From Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations (1903)
Samuel S. Shaw, Elizabeth Melville, and Josephine MacC Shaw, [Two Letters and Later Testimony concerning Marital Conditions in the Melville Household, 1867 and ca. 1920]
John C. Hoadley, [Epistolary Remarks, 1873]
Samuel Arthur Jones, [Epistolary Remarks, 1900]
Richard Henry Stoddard, From Recollections Personal & Literary (1903)
[Chester A. Arthur and George Alfred Townsend], “A Novelist in the Custom House” (1879)
Julian Hawthorne, [Essays and Excerpts on Melville, 1901–1927]
Theodore F. Wolfe, From Literary Shrines (1895)
Oscar Wegelin, “Herman Melville As I Recall Him” (1935)
Eleanor Melville Metcalf, [Childhood Recollection, 1921]
Frances Thomas Osborne, [Childhood Recollection, 1965]
Arthur Stedman, “Herman Melville’s Funeral” (1891) and From “Introduction to the 1892 Edition [of Typee]”
[J. E. A. Smith], From “Herman Melville. A Great Pittsfield Author” (1891, 1892)
Oliver. G. Hillard, “The Late Hiram Melville: A Tribute to His Memory from One Who Knew Him” (1891)
Peter Toft, “In Praise of Herman Melville” (1900)
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Bibliography
Index