As a sailor might say

As a sailor might say by Scott Norsworthy

DRAGOONED: Writing, talking, and rewriting like Herman Melville in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (1851-1853). No. 3.

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Project MUSE - Following the “Indian Trail”: Isabel’s Lost Mohawk Lineage in Melville’s PIERRE

New work by Yukiko Oshima in the latest Leviathan :

Project MUSE - Following the “Indian Trail”: Isabel’s Lost Mohawk Lineage in Melville’s <i>Pierre</i>

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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If It Wasn’t For Ray

"Melville the Scrivener" by Stanley Edgar Hyman

"Melville the Scrivener" by Stanley Edgar Hyman: By Stanley Edgar Hyman, Published on 05/08/17

1873 reprinting of "The Fiddler" in Columbus, Ohio

Uncredited, Herman Melville's 1854 short story "The Fiddler" was reprinted (presumably from Harper's magazine) in the Columbus, Ohio Daily Dispatch and Daily Ohio Statesman on September 22, 1873. Edited version, mostly complete but strategically revised to eliminate the… pic.twitter.com/xAPUJ192qz

— Scott Norsworthy 🇺🇸 (@Melvilliana) August 7, 2025

 

Duyckinck wrote reviews for the CHURCHMAN

"Duyckinck wrote reviews for an Episcopal magazine, the Churchman , and in March of 1854 was officially announced its literary editor. But by May he was able to tell Simms that he and George had decided to devote themselves heart and soul to that other ambition of Evert’s life, a… https://t.co/fpuXbi7O8A pic.twitter.com/cmpRAhePS6

— Scott Norsworthy 🇺🇸 (@Melvilliana) August 3, 2025