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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Cincinnati ENQUIRER review, Melville's 1857-8 lecture on "Statues in Rome"

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As advertised, at 8 o'clock on Tuesday evening, February 2, 1858 Herman Melville gave his "Statues in Rome" lecture at Smith &...
Monday, November 18, 2024

Early notice of Melville's CONFIDENCE-MAN in the Cincinnati ENQUIRER, edited by Alexander Walker

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A Mississippi River Landing via The New York Public Library Digital Collections This favorable notice of The Confidence Man: His Masquerade ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Early praise for Clement C. Moore's 1825 lecture on the Hebrew Bible

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The professor shows that he has entered intimately into the spirit of Hebrew poetry.... With "Philo-Hebrœus," as the contributor o...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

Meandering through the meads in MARDI and Bartram's TRAVELS

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  Wondering if Melville read William Bartram's Travels 🤔🧐 Near the end of Mardi (1849) flowers flow like rivers and streams through me...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Tokens of ghostwriting

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Now on Substack, just in time for Halloween! 👻✍ Tokens of ghostwriting by Scott Norsworthy Writing, talking, and rewriting like Herman Melv...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Gottschalk reminiscence by Charles G. Whiting, with "Corrupt as Lima" quoted from MOBY-DICK

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Signed "C. G. W." this reminiscence of the brilliant New Orleans-born pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk by Charles Goodrich Whiting...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Prompt behind Melville's invented proverb "Corrupt as Lima" in Stewart's VISIT TO THE SOUTH SEAS Volume 1

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  Here is the source-text or prompt for Melville's invented proverb "Corrupt as Lima," twice uttered in Moby-Dick chapter 54 (...