[Letter] 1853 Dec. 14 Pittsfield, [Mass., to] E.L. Welles / Herman Melville.

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[Letter] 1853 Dec. 14 Pittsfield, [Mass., to] E.L. Welles / Herman Melville.

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States that he takes pleasure in exchanging autographs with E.L. Welles [sic].

[1] leaf ; 19 cm.

Dartmouth College Library

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Wells, E. Livingston.

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...