"Rasselas re-written by Irving": George M. Wharton aka Stahl on Typee

Sun, May 16, 1852 – 2 · The Daily Delta (New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America) · Newspapers.com

Herman Melville has described Tahiti in a book, ('Typee,'), which I can compare but to Rasselas re-written by Irving. --"Pee-Wi Ho-Ki, The Tahitian Cannibal" in the New Orleans Daily Delta for May 16, 1852; reprinted in The New Orleans Sketch Book.

Later reprinted in William E. Burton's Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor, the same volume with Melville's short fiction, The Lightning-Rod Man. The New Orleans Sketch Book was illustrated by Herman Melville's friend Felix Octavius Carr Darley.



Typee is set on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas; Omoo is the book of Melville's romanticized adventures in Tahiti.

For more on Wharton, see Frederick Jonas Dreyfus, Life and Works of George Michael Wharton, M.D., (Pseudonym "Stahl"), 1825-1853 in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 6.4 (December  1947): 315-336. <https://www.jstor.org/stable/4262095>

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