Happy 195th birthday to Herman Melville! This page from his manuscript for Billy Budd shows extensiv
Happy 195th birthday to Herman Melville! This page from his manuscript for Billy Budd shows extensive revisions, including new passages he affixed to the manuscript with straight pins (removed in a thorough conservation treatment of the manuscript in 2001).Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Papers.MS Am 188 (363)Houghton Library, Harvard University -- source link
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