Day: February 10, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

You’ve Got Mail: A Melville note resurfaces

Like an item consigned to the Dead Letter Office where Bartleby the Scrivener once worked, this brief note from Herman Melville lay undelivered to scholars and editors for nearly a century until the autograph collection of which it is a part received a full electronic finding aid in 2007. The note, perhaps clipped from a…