Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and nineteenth-century American literature.
Does it list Melville's height as 5' 7 1/2" ??
Hard to tell in this view, seven or nine. In Herman Melville's Whaling Years, Wilson Heflin gives it from the same document as 5' 9 1/2". Footnote adds Melville's earlier height from the crew list of the St Lawrence as 5 feet 8 1/2 inches.
Does it list Melville's height as 5' 7 1/2" ??
ReplyDeleteHard to tell in this view, seven or nine. In Herman Melville's Whaling Years, Wilson Heflin gives it from the same document as 5' 9 1/2". Footnote adds Melville's earlier height from the crew list of the St Lawrence as 5 feet 8 1/2 inches.
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