HERMAN MELVILLE
Mariner and Mystic
RAYMOND M. WEAVER
Engraved on wood, by L. F. Grant.
From a photograph.
HERMAN MELVILLE
MARINER AND MYSTIC
BY
RAYMOND M. WEAVER
COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
PROFESSOR FRANKLIN T. BAKER
“—il maestro cortese”
To Professor Carl Van Doren, to Miss Cora Paget,and to Mrs. Eleanor Melville Metcalf, I am, in the writingof this book, very especially indebted. By ProfessorVan Doren’s enthusiasm and scholarship I was instigatedto a study of Melville. It has been my privilege to enjoyMiss Paget’s very valuable criticism and assistancethroughout the preparation of this volume. Mrs. Metcalfgave me access to all the surviving records of hergrandfather: Melville manuscripts, letters, journals, annotatedbooks, photographs, and a variety of other material.But she did far more. My indebtedness to Mrs.Metcalf’s vivid interest, her shrewd insight, her keensympathy can be stated only in superlatives. To Mrs.and Mr. Metcalf I owe one of the richest and mostpleasant associations of my life.
Raymond M. Weaver.
October 1, 1921.
Most of the letters of Melville to Hawthorneincluded in this volume are quoted from NathanielHawthorne and His Wife, by Julian Hawthorne.These letters, and other citations from Mr