Rare Herman Melville letter, for auction October 8, 2025

This previously unlocated letter to Prof. T. Apoleon Cheney is listed in Melville's CORRESPONDENCE (Northwestern University Press, 1993) edited by Lynn Horth on pages 402-403. In my first look at the manuscript image online, I read "poems" where the University Archives… https://t.co/LmpixBRmMs

— Scott Norsworthy 🇺🇸 (@Melvilliana) September 18, 2025

Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books

Lot 392

ALS from Herman Melville to Theseus Apoleon Cheney, dated Dec 4, 1867

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