Melvilliana: Robert Melvill's 1850 "Report of the Committee on ...

Link below to a cool discovery first announced right here on Melvilliana, about that 1850 farm report usually attributed to Herman Melville. Most of it copied verbatim from the 1846 report for Middlesex county by Joseph T. Buckingham. So then, either Robert Melvill was a great plagiarist like his cousin Herman, or cousin Herman furnished Robert with a plagiarized report. If Melville had similarly aided Buckingham back in 1846, then in 1850 he might have found himself ghost-editing his own ghostwriting! 

https://melvilliana.blogspot.com/2016/09/robert-melvills-1850-report-of.html

Melvilliana: Robert Melvill's 1850 "Report of the Committee on ...: 1846! I got confused for a while about the year of the plagiarized report. 1846 is right, after all. The Society of Middlesex Husbandmen...

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