John, that is correct. It was when Wegelin was working
for John Anderson, Jr., the New York City bookseller
who eventually bought the firm of Bangs & Co.
Wegelin was working for Anderson when in strolls
Herman Melville one day in autumn of 1890. Melville
made inquiries about a book on whaling to Anderson,
who asked him whom he had the pleasure of addressing,
neither knowing his identity nor recognizes him. The
excitement of learning it was Herman Melville stuck
with the young Wegelin who used to make book
deliveries to Melville's home.
John
--- John Bryant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> Thanks. That is a wonderful old piece that I
> haven't read in years, and
> ought to get back to. As I recall Wegelin remembers
> seeing HM wandering
> about in bookstores.
>
> yrs,
> John
>
> ___________
> John Bryant, English Department, Hofstra University,
> Hempstead, NY 11549
> >>> [log in to unmask] 07/09/07 2:39 PM >>>
> John:
>
> I do not know if this citation is of any use to you
> regarding Melville, but reading your post reminded
> me
> of an article I read by Oscar Wegelin published in
> The
> Colophon. It is a collection of small reminiscences
> of
> Melville 1890 until his death and about his wife and
> the sale of his library after his death. See
> Wegelin,
> Oscar, "Herman Melville As I recall Him," The
> Colophon, New Series, Volume i, No. 1, Summer (1935)
> :
> 21-24.
>
> John
>
>
> --- John Bryant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > I think you mentioned this to me last spring, and
> > I'm glad this popped
> > up now. I was just thinking of you and asking for
> > this site URL.
> > Melville had a Leicester contact, a businessman
> > named James Billson, and
> > I want to see what's over there about him, some
> day
> > when I am not so
> > busy with digitizing HM here, and there's fewer
> > bombings in the world:
> > or non=bombings. Hope you are well, and that your
> > search for a new
> > Peter is evolving. I'll try to visit this site
> > soon.
> >
> > yrs,
> > John
> >
> > ___________
> > John Bryant, English Department, Hofstra
> University,
> > Hempstead, NY 11549
> > >>> [log in to unmask] 07/06/07 5:37 PM >>>
> > One serious piece of advice: search
> www.a2a.gov.uk,
> > this is a boolean
> > search engine through all the English county
> record
> > offices and quite a
> > few other things. It will provide a lot of red
> > herrings and a lot of
> > gold: be prepared to spend a few days collating
> the
> > data, and having a
> > few busted visits; also choose a few differest
> words
> > (depending on what
> > you are interested in) ... how many thousand
> volumes
> > do you want to
> > find?
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: The list of the European Society for Textual
> > Scholarship and the
> > Society for Textual Scholarship on behalf of Ivan
> > Lupic
> > Sent: Fri 06/07/2007 21:51
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Mid 18th Century Commonplace
> Notebooks
> >
> >
> > I would be very interested to read responses to
> this
> > query posted on the
> > list.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Ivan Lupic
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: EDDY M.D. <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 5:37 PM
> > Subject: Mid 18th Century Commonplace Notebooks
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am currently researching mid eighteenth-century
> > commonplace
> > notebooks. I am wondering if anyone could suggest
> > some reading material
> > that addresses: (1) the principles - assumed or
> > explicitly stated - that
> > authors used to order their commonplace notebooks
> > during the
> > mid-eighteenth century and (2) where authors were
> > taught how to keep a
> > commonplace notebook. Please respond to me off
> the
> > list. I have found
> > material on the seventeenth century, so I am keen
> to
> > hear about
> > mid-eighteenth century developments.
> >
> >
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> >
> >
> >
> > Matthew.
> >
> > ([log in to unmask])
> >
> > Dr Matthew D Eddy
> > Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50
> Old
> > Elvet,
> > Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom. (44) 191 334
> 6550.
> > http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> John N. Lupia, III
> Beachwood, New Jersey 08722 USA; Beirut, Lebanon
> Fax: (732) 349-3910
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Roman-Catholic-News/
> God Bless Everyone
>
>
>
>
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