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August 1st 2012

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Herman Melville, great American author - and the only such to a have a species of whale named  after him: August 1, 1819 – 1891…

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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Image: Melville crest, with some of his scribbles - from a letter to Hawthorne, July 1852 (?)

Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Herman Melville, great American author - and the only such to a have a species of whale named  after him: August 1, 1819 – 1891… “It is not down on any map; true places never are.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick —- Image: Melville crest, with some of his scribbles - from a letter to Hawthorne, July 1852 (?) Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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