Herman Melville - Correspondence

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THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE
The Northwestern-Newberry Edition
VOLUME FOURTEEN

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EDITORS
HARRISON HAYFORD, General Editor
HERSHEL PARKER, Associate General Editor
G. THOMAS TANSELLE, Bibliographical Editor

EXECUTIVE EDITOR
LYNN HORTH

EDITORIAL COORDINATOR
ALMA A. MACDOUGALL

ASSOCIATES
RICHARD COLLES JOHNSON, Bibliographical Associate
BRIAN HIGGINS, Editorial Associate
R. D. MADISON, Editorial Associate
ROBERT C. RYAN, Manuscript Associate
DONALD YANNELLA, Manuscript Associate

ADVISORY BOARD
JOHN HURT FISHER For the Modern Language Association of America
MOODY E. PRIOR For Northwestern University
CHRISTOPHER HERBERT For Northwestern University
RICHARD H. BROWN For The Newberry Library
NICHOLAS WEIR-WILLIAMS For Northwestern University Press

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Correspondence

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This volume edited and annotated, with Historical Note, by
LYNN HORTH

Revised and augmented from
The Letters of Herman Melville (1960)
edited by
MERRELL R. DAVIS
and WILLIAM H. GILMAN

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Correspondence

HERMAN MELVILLE

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
and
THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY
Evanston and Chicago
1993

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PUBLICATION OF this edition of THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE has been made possible through the financial support of Northwestern University and its Research Committee and The Newberry Library. The research necessary to establish the text was initially undertaken under the Cooperative Research Program of the U.S. Office of Education, and preparation of this volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency which supports the study of such fields as history, philosophy, literature, and languages. Use of the 1960 edition of The Letters of Herman Melville was arranged with William H. Gilman and Laura Davis, and also with permission of Yale University Press. Northwestern University Press produced and published this revised and augmented edition and reserves all rights.

Copyright 1993 by Northwestern University Press
and The Newberry Library

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 92085490

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cloth Edition, ISBN 0810109816
Paper Edition, ISBN 0810109956

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In 1960 The Letters of Herman Melville was dedicated thus by its editors:

For Melville scholars of three generations

STANLEY T. WILLIAMS
LEON HOWARD
HARRISON HAYFORD

In 1993 this Correspondence volume of Melvilles Writings, revised and augmented from that landmark volume in a still later generation, pays dedicatory honor in turn to those editors:

MERRELL R. DAVIS
WILLIAM H. GILMAN

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For an explanation of the documentation used throughout this volume, see the section on Sources, pp. 81011 below. For terms, symbols, and recording methods used in the textual reports that follow each letter, see pp. 83940 below.