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8. ML, 604–6.
CHAPTER 22
1. Caroline Whitmarsh, “A Representative Woman,” Berkshire County Eagle, October 29, 1863.
2. Letter from Colonel A. Potter, Pittsfield Sun, February 2, 1871.
3. SAM to Lieutenant Colonel Wheldon, January 23, 1862 (Springfield).
4. Edward P. Nettleton to SAM, April 8, 1863 (BA).
5. “The Rebellion,” Pittsfield Sun, January 15, 1863. Most of the unattributed poems in the paper can be traced to previously published sources, but of the few that are identified as “for the Sun” and carry no author’s name in full, three or four seem likely the work of Sarah, whose contributions to the paper were warmly praised at her death. See Garner, The Civil War World of Herman Melville, 215, and Sarah’s untitled lyric in Hymns of the Ages, Third Series (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865), 261.
6. SAM to William B. Morewood, [September 1862] (BCHS).
7. August 6, 1863, Pittsfield Sun.
8. Whitmarsh, “A Representative Woman.”
9. Elizabeth Shaw Melville to Augusta Melville, October 16, 1863 (NYPL).
10. J. Rowland Morewood to William B. Morewood, October 16, 1863 (BA).
11. Elizabeth Shaw Melville to Augusta Melville, October 16, 1863 (NYPL).
12. Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham Selects the World’s Ten Greatest Novels, 218.
13. Whitmarsh, “A Representative Woman.”
14. Holmes, “Written for S. A. Morewood” (BA).
CHAPTER 23
1. HM to Sophia Van Matre, December 10, 1863 (HMC, 386).
2. Sealts, The Early Lives of Melville, 174.
3. HM to Evert Duyckinck, December 31, 1863 (HMC, 389).
4. Spark, Hunting Captain Ahab, 214.
5. Samuel S. Shaw to Henry W. Bellows, May 6, 1867 (HMC, 858–59).
6. Elizabeth Shaw Melville to Henry W. Bellows, May 20, 1867 (HMC, 860).
7. See Monteiro, The Presence of Camões, 62–79.
8. Quoted in HMC, 400.
9. Elizabeth Renker, “Herman Melville, Wife Beating, and the Written Page,” American Literature, March 1994. As Renker has correctly pointed out, “Critics have tried hard to redeem the Melville marriage as a good one by reading Melville’s rose poems [late verses in Weeds and Wildings] as love poems to Lizzie, but neither the rose poems nor the biographical facts of the marriage sustain such a case” (A Companion to Herman Melville, 492). At any rate, HM associated the rose with SAM (“Most considerate of all the delicate roses that diffuse their blessed perfume among men, is Mrs. Morewood”).
CHAPTER 24
1. Stoddard, Recollections, 143.
2. Elizabeth Shaw Melville to Catherine Lansing, January 10, 1886 (ML, 796).
3. Peter Toth, “In Praise of Herman Melville,” New York Times, March 17, 1900.
4. HM to James Billson, December 20, 1885 (HMC, 492).
5. New York Tribune, June 16, 1876 (HMCR, 532).
6. HMC, 855–56. The toast to SAM’s “spirit” ends with an awkward effort to return the toast to Rowland (“the Health of Mr. Morewood”). Because SAM is dead (“be she now remembered by us all”), this occasion can’t be confused with another in 1851 when Cornelius Mathews sent the Morewoods a witty toast.
7. See Robert Penn Warren’s edition of the poem in his Selected Poems of Herman Melville, 344–47. “Skies are dark and winds are moaning, / Leaves around us falling fast” are the opening lines of Sarah’s untitled autumnal lyric in Hymns of the Ages, Third Series (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865), 261.
CHAPTER 25
1. Weaver, Herman Melville, 377–79.
2. HMC, 728.
3. Forster, Aspects of the Novel, 142.
4. Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters, 197–98.
CODA
1. “Dropped Dead in Church,” New York World, January 26, 1903.
2. “Guests, Not Ghouls, on Grave Trip,” Berkshire Eagle, September 9, 2006.
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ART INSERT CREDITS
Herman Melville. Berkshire Athenaeum
Sarah Morewood. Berkshire Athenaeum
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Broadhall in 1900. Library of Congress
Map of Berkshire County. The National Publishing Company Railroad Map of New England (1900)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne. Library of Congress
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Library of Congress
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Drawing of Arrowhead. Raymond Weaver, Herman Melville: Mystic and Mariner (1921)
View from Melville’s room at Arrowhead. Author’s photograph
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Mary Butler. William Allen Butler, A Retrospect of Forty Years, 1825–1865 (1911)
Dryden’s poems. Author’s photograph
The Whale agreement. Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers
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Summit of Mount Greylock. Author’s photograph
Evert Duyckinck. William Allen Butler, Evert Augustus Duyckinck: A Memorial Sketch (1879)
George Duyckinck. William Allen Butler, Evert Augustus Duyckinck: A Memorial Sketch (1879)
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Rev. John Todd. John Todd, The Story of His Life (1876)
Herman and Lizzie Melville’s children. Raymond Weaver, Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic (1921)
Sarah Morewood and children. Berkshire County Historical Society
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Lizzie Melville. Raymond Weaver, Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic (1921)
Herman Melville. Raymond Weaver, Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic (1921)
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