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Correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville as well as correspondence between various members of his family.

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Business correspondence and papers of Thomas Melvill, Sr. and his son Thomas Melvill, Jr. of the Massachusetts-based Melville family, ancestors of the author Herman Melville.

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Genealogical notes and photographs of the Massachusetts-based Melville family, ancestors of author Herman Melville.

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Photographs, memoirs and genealogical notes of the Massachusetts-based Melville family, family members of author Herman Melville.

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Business accounts and French merchants' documents of American merchant Allan Melvill, father of author Herman Melville.

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The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

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Material concerning Lewis Carroll and the Harcourt Amory collection of Lewis Carroll in the Harvard College Library, collected by Florence Milner of the Farnsworth Room, then in Widener Library.

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Compositions, journals, and correspondence of French philosopher Maurice Blanchot, with works of others as well as family papers.

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Letters sent to American author, editor and Harvard professor, Charles Eliot Norton.

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A privately printed (New York) collection of approximately 8000 cartes-de-visite photographs of nineteenth century figures, including over a hundred photos of Abraham Lincoln, his famous contemporaries, both American and European, and photos of Union and Confederate Army officers from the collection of Frederick H. Meserve, a New York textile executive and photograph collector.

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Reports from correspondents that were circulated to editors at the New York office of Time magazine.

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville and correspondence between various members of his family. Includes the manuscripts of Billy Budd,John Marr and other sailors,Timoleon, and unpublished poems and prose pieces; some correspondence, mostly with relatives and other writers; his journals of various sea voyages; and a notebook of lecture engagements. Also contains...

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville and correspondence between various members of his family. Includes the manuscripts of Billy Budd,John Marr and other sailors,Timoleon, and unpublished poems and prose pieces; some correspondence, mostly with relatives and other writers; his journals of various sea voyages; and a notebook of lecture engagements. Also contains...

Scope and Contents: Collection is comprised of the file indexes to ownership/provenance information found in printed books within Houghton Library that were cataloged prior to 1992. A very few manuscript codices are also included. It does not include books transferred from Widener Library and still identified by their Widener call numbers (circa 75,000 titles), or books accessioned but not fully cataloged (circa 35,000 titles). Each entry includes the following information: Name or initials of...

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville and correspondence between various members of his family. Includes the manuscripts of Billy Budd,John Marr and other sailors,Timoleon, and unpublished poems and prose pieces; some correspondence, mostly with relatives and other writers; his journals of various sea voyages; and a notebook of lecture engagements. Also contains...

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville and correspondence between various members of his family. Includes the manuscripts of Billy Budd,John Marr and other sailors,Timoleon, and unpublished poems and prose pieces; some correspondence, mostly with relatives and other writers; his journals of various sea voyages; and a notebook of lecture engagements. Also contains...

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville and correspondence between various members of his family. Includes the manuscripts of Billy Budd,John Marr and other sailors,Timoleon, and unpublished poems and prose pieces; some correspondence, mostly with relatives and other writers; his journals of various sea voyages; and a notebook of lecture engagements. Also contains...

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville and correspondence between various members of his family. Includes the manuscripts of Billy Budd,John Marr and other sailors,Timoleon, and unpublished poems and prose pieces; some correspondence, mostly with relatives and other writers; his journals of various sea voyages; and a notebook of lecture engagements. Also contains...

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville and correspondence between various members of his family. Includes the manuscripts of Billy Budd,John Marr and other sailors,Timoleon, and unpublished poems and prose pieces; some correspondence, mostly with relatives and other writers; his journals of various sea voyages; and a notebook of lecture engagements. Also contains...

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American writer Melville to the editors of the Literary World requesting cessation of his subscription to the magazine.

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Letter possibly to Harper Brothers. Date established on the basis of a family letter, as noted by the dealer.

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville and correspondence between various members of his family. Includes the manuscripts of Billy Budd,John Marr and other sailors,Timoleon, and unpublished poems and prose pieces; some correspondence, mostly with relatives and other writers; his journals of various sea voyages; and a notebook of lecture engagements. Also contains...

Scope and Contents: The records described here are from James Laughlin's home office in Norfolk, Connecticut. Here Laughlin kept his own papers as well as materials sent to him from the New York City office. For example, when a letter concerning an editorial matter was written in the New York office, a copy would be made for Laughlin's Norfolk files. Additionally, there are memoranda, correspondence, and notes between Laughlin and the members of the staff in the New York office....

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American writer Melville to British publisher John Murray III regarding publication of his novel White Jacket (1850), which Murray declined.

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville and correspondence between various members of his family. Includes the manuscripts of Billy Budd,John Marr and other sailors,Timoleon, and unpublished poems and prose pieces; some correspondence, mostly with relatives and other writers; his journals of various sea voyages; and a notebook of lecture engagements. Also contains...