Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 [Collection of 2 documents pertaining to Herman Melville.] [Decimalized .01-.02]

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Collection Details

GLC#: GLC00768
Type: Header Record
Date: 1866-1892
Author/Creator: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Title: [Collection of 2 documents pertaining to Herman Melville.] [Decimalized .01-.02]
Place Written: s.l.
Pagination: 2 items

Time Period

Primary time period: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Sub-Era: Reconstruction

Subjects

Poetry

Literature and Language Arts

Showing 2 of 2 records

Collection Item

Book signed

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.

1866

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

First edition of Melville's only book of poetry. Inscribed on inital blank facing the titlepage: "Major Edward Y. Lansing from H. Melville. As a souvenir of his soldier hospitality at the cavalry camp in the Virginia woods, April 1864." Also...

GLC00768.01

Collection Item

Manuscript

Letterbook of outgoing correspondence with memoirs of military

1878-1892

Lansing, Edwin Y., fl. 1878-1892

Containing pressed copies of Lansing's letters and an account of his military career, pp. 73-78 (5/19/1882). These include military letters as clerk in the Depot Quarter Master Dept (1870s), business letters and family letters to his brother Abraham...

GLC00768.02

[Collection of 2 documents pertaining to Herman Melville.] [Decimalized .01-.02]

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 [Collection of 2 documents pertaining to Herman Melville.] [Decimalized .01-.02]

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