In 1850 George Doolittle (1808-1894) operated Doolittle's Express with service from Lee to Pittsfield, MA via Lenox. This Doolittle I take it was the "Mr. Doolittle" named by Herman Melville in connection with a near collision between Doolittle's sleigh and an oncoming train that… pic.twitter.com/fHQRDc3ppn
— Scott Norsworthy 🇺🇸 (@Melvilliana) April 6, 2024
Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and nineteenth-century American literature.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Doolittle "the Lenox expressman" in Leyda's postscript to THE MELVILLE LOG
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