Photo Credits

Portrait of Melville, Joseph O. Eaton, 1870, *61Z-4 by permission of Houghton Library.
Photo of books owned by Melville by permission of Houghton Library.
'What can be finer' from Melville's copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse, *AC85.M4977.Zz846h by permission of Houghton Library.
'admirable!' from Melville's copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Conduct of Life, *AC85.M4977.Zz860e by permission of Houghton Library.
'Alas!' from Melville's copy of Edward Fitzgerald's Polonius, *AC85.M4977.Zz86h by permission of Houghton Library.
'Bravo!' from Melville's copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Conduct of Life, *AC85.M4977.Zz860e by permission of Houghton Library.
'Very curious, and ---' from Melville's copy of Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry, *AC85.M4977.Zz870w by permission of Houghton Library.
'Exquisite' from Melville's copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse, *AC85.M4977.Zz846h by permission of Houghton Library.
'The foresight!' from Melville's copy of Henry Crabb Robinson's Diary, Reminscences, and Correspondence, *AC85.M4977.Zz869r by permission of Houghton Library.
'H Melville' from his copy of Thomas Moore's Poetical Works, *AC85.M4977.Zz856m by permission of Houghton Library.
'True' from Melville's copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Conduct of Life, *AC85.M4977.Zz860e by permission of Houghton Library.