Index to Melville in Love

Aeneid (Virgil), 64 Ainsworth, William Harrison, 116 Angel Standing in the Sun, The (Turner), 118-21 Arrowhead (Melville home), 112-14, 134-35, 138-39, 172-74, 193-94, 202, 211, 221 debts for, 4, 84-90, 131-32 Holmes and, 67-69 Hawthorne and, 126-27, 131-32 improvements to,131-32 Morewood visit to, 177 Pierre and,172, 194 sale of, 4, 84-90, 224 writing of Moby-Dick and, 3-4, 93-95, 99-100, 113-14 Athenaeum (London), 115

Balance Rock (Berkshires), 153-55 Bartlett, William F., 214-15 Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (Melville), 215-16, 224 Beale, Thomas, 116 Bellows, Dr. Henry, 226 Bentley, Richard, 169 Berkshire Athenaeum, 9, 103, 115, 219 Berkshire County Eagle, 206-07 Bicknell, Elhanan, 116 Billy Budd (Melville), 210, 241-45 Black Quake (Sarah Morewood’s colt), 59, 111-12, 173 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 49 Boston Daily Times, 186 Boston Post, 165, 186-87 Brewster, Dr. John, 86

Broadhall (Morewood home), 9, 20, 88, 93, 110, 131-32, 155, 177, 193-94, 199, 202-03, 224, 235-36 Black Quake at, 111-12 as boarding house, 29 in Civil War years, 213, 215 description of,1, 13 Elsie Venner and, 62 festivities at, 5-6, 42-45, 51, 55-56, 58, 133-35, 153, 161, 174-75 Hawthorne and, 73, 75, 81-82 laurel wreath ceremony and, 5-6, 85-86, 175 as the Melvill Farm, 13 Sarah Morewood’s death at, 218 naming of, 86-87 Pierre and, 47-48, 155 purchase of, 22, 41-43, 81-82, 85-87 J.E.A. Smith and, 86-87, 258 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 227 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 106, 175-76, 195-96 Butler, Benjamin, 56 Butler, Mary, 55-56, 58, 77 Butler, William Allen, 55-58, 149 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 24-25, 106, 121

Camões, Luis de, 227-28 Chicago Tribune, 34, 245 Christian Parlor Magazine, 37 Christian Times, 199 Churchman (New York), 167 Clarel (Melville), 174, 232, 234-35 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 121 130 Confidence-Man, The (Melville), 206 Countess Faustina, The (Hahn-Hahn), 200 Country Club of Pittsfield, 16

Daly, Judy, 248 Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 108, 122 Delbanco, Andrew, 7 Dickens, Charles, 175 Dickinson, Emily, 83 Dryden, John, 48-50, 64, 203-04

Duyckinck, Evert, 44-45, 59, 73, 81, 88, 90, 96, 98, 126, 144, 149-50, 172, 177-80, 191-92, 224-25 Greylock and, 136-40, 147-48, 151 Literary World and, 46, 55, 57, 75, 78-79, 139, 150, 165-68, 173-74, 179, 191-92 Mary Butler’s “kidnapping” and, 54-58 Melville’s letter on Black Quake to, 111-12 Monument Mountain and, 74-75 Duyckinck, George, 57, 88, 136-40, 147, 165, 173-75, 177-80, 191-92, 224- 25 Sarah Morewood’s relationship with, 148-51

Elsie Venner (Holmes), 62-63, 65-67, 69, 83, 140-41, 149, 221 Entler, Rev. George,138, 148 Evening Traveller (Boston), 186-87 Everett, Edward,122 Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The (Smollett), 52-54

Faulkner, William, 245 Forrest, Edwin, 65 Forster, E. M., 244-45 Fort Stanwix,170 Fuller, Margaret, 26, 28, 181-82

Gainsborough, Thomas, 121 Gardiner, Alexander, 19-22, 29, 43, 84 Garner, Stanton, 215 General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 139 Gowing, Sir Lawrence, 119 Graham’s Magazine, 165 Greeley, Horace, 26-27

Greylock, Mount, 16, 62, 131, 153, 155, 182, 214, 236, 238 August 1851 excursion to, 136-41, 143-48, 151, 165, 167, 180, 195- 96 description of, 94, 97, 118, 126, 143-45 Evert Duyckinck and, 136, 138-41, 144, 147 George Duyckinck and, 136, 139, 147-48 in Elsie Venner, 62, 140-41 Hawthorne and, 94, 126, 137 Moby-Dick and, 94, 97, 118 in Pierre, 155, 186, 194-95 J.E.A. Smith and, 136, 145-46 Turner and, 118

Hahn-Hahn, Countess Ida von, 199-200, 202 Hardwick, Elizabeth, 7 Harper & Brothers, 131, 161, 185, 187, 191-192 Hawthorne, Julian, 208 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 66, 88, 105, 122, 132, 172 at Arrowhead, 126-31 at Broadhall, 81 Berkshires and, 71, 73, 85, 130, 164 death of, 210 dedication of Moby-Dick to, 164 Greylock and, 94,137 literary qualities of, 72-73,129 at Liverpool, 207-10 on male intimacy, 156-57 Melville’s admiration of, 75-77, 78, 163, 238 on Melville’s character, 208-09 Melville’s friendship with, 74, 79-80, 125-31, 137, 156, 207-10 on Moby-Dick, 94,161-65,167 at Monument Mountain, 74-75 as reticent and aloof, 79,129,147 sin and, 77-78,102,192 on the Shakers, 156—57 on Typee, 24 “Young Goodman Brown” and, 77 see also The House of the Seven Gables, Mosses from an Old Manse, and The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Sophia, 80, 88, 208-09 Margaret Fuller's death and, 181-82 on “Hawthorne and His Mosses” (Melville), 78-79 husband’s relationship with, 125, 129 on Melville, 24, 74-75, 79, 128 Hogarth, William, 203 Holmes, Amelia, 63 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 69 Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, Sr., 105, 193 Berkshires and, 61, 63, 93 on Hawthorne, 80 Melville’s “I and My Chimney” and, 67-69 at Monument Mountain, 74 Sarah Morewood’s relationship with, 8, 61-69, 140-41, 148-49, 221 at Pittsfield Cemetery dedication, 82-83 see also Elsie Venner Hour and the Man, The (Martineau), 104, 176 Housatonic River, 14, 61 House of the Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne), 125-130, 147, 163 Huyler, Sarah Paradise (Sarah Morewood’s mother), 10, 217

Illustrated London News, 168 Israel Potter (Melville), 206

James, Henry, 31 Jung, Carl, 101

L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 104 Lantern, 185 Lathers, Anne (see Anne Rachel Morewood) Lawrence, D.H., 171-74, 177 Lenox, Massachusetts, 66, 71-73, 81, 85, 88, 94, 125, 130-31, 164 Leutze, Emanuel, 71-72 Literary World, 46, 55, 57, 75, 78-79, 139, 150, 165-68, 173-74, 179, 191- 92 Moby-Dick, review of,165-68, 173-74, Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, 34 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 14, 17, 29 Lowell, James Russell, 45

Mardi (Melville), 28, 39, 240 Martineau, Harriet, 104, 176 Marvel, Ik (see Donald G. Mitchell) Mathews, Cornelius , 45-46, 53 Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 181-82 Maugham, Somerset, 193-94, 220 Melvill, Allan (Herman’s father, surname with older spelling), 35 Melvill, Robert (Herman’s cousin), 17-18, 21, 43, 110-11 Melvill, Susan (Robert’s wife), 17 Melvill, Thomas (Herman’s uncle), 13-17, 35, 51, 133 Melville, Allan (Herman’s brother), 105, 136, 138-39, 177, 201, 224 Melville, Augusta (Herman’s sister), 136, 138-39, 174-75, 177, 201, 218-20 Melville, Elizabeth (Herman’s older daughter), 201, 229 Melville, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Shaw (Herman’s wife), 33-34, 36-39, 44-45, 59, 86-87, 95-96, 132, 135-36, 147, 170, 172, 198, 200-03, 206-207, 218-20, 223-29, 232, 243 Melville, Frances (Herman’s younger daughter), 201, 225, 229, 239, 243 Melville, Helen Maria (Herman’s sister), 39 Melville, Herman appearance of, 3, 55, 65, 209, 239 “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by, 8, 206 birth of, 15 Broadhall and, 13-16, 86-89, 235-36 Mary Butler “kidnapped” by, 54-58 children of, 38-39, 95, 170, 172, 193, 198-201, 225, 228-29, 239, 243 as customs officer, 231-32 death of, 243 Evert Duyckinck’s relationship with, 44-45, 54-59, 74-75, 81, 88, 90, 96, 98, 111-12, 126, 138, 151, 165-68, 173-74, 179, 191-92, 224-25 early literary reputation of, 24-29 Elsie Venner’s fictional portrait of, 65-67 Fayaway and, 23-24, 26-27, 29, 36-37, 46, 148, 159 financial troubles of, 85-86, 131-32, 201-02, 205-06, 223-24 Greylock and, 94, 136-37, 139, 144-48, 194-96 “Hawthorne and His Mosses” by, 75-78 Hawthorne’s relationship with, 74, 79-80, 125-31, 137, 156-57, 207-10 Sophia Hawthorne’s relationship with, 24, 74-75, 79, 128 “I and My Chimney” by, 67-69 “The Isle of the Cross” by, 206 in Liverpool, 205, 207-09 in London, 113-14, 120-23, 210-11 Mediterranean travels of, 207, 210 mental illness concerns for, 186, 206-07 as Sarah Morewood’s companion, 178-79 Sarah Morewood’s letters from, 9-10, 102-04, 176-77, 199-200, 202- 03, 207 Sarah Morewood’s romance with, 7-10, 46-50, 53-54, 64-66, 77-78, 107-08, 111-112, 133-37, 144-48, 153-54, 167-68, 173-77, 195-96, 198-200, 202-04, 211, 220-21, 236-38 Sarah Morewood’s social life with, 1-7, 44-46, 51-59, 87, 133-35, 161 Sarah Morewood’s death and, 218, 220 mother’s relationship with, 95, 171-75, 177-78, 201 in New York City, 15, 35, 37-40, 43-44, 223-25, 239-40, 243 poetry of, 108, 122, 215-16, 227-28, 234-38 purchase of Arrowhead by, 4, 84-90, 224 The Student’s Manual and, 105-07 as Turk in costume, 53-54 wedding, 33-37 wife’s relationship with, 38, 44, 59, 87, 95-96, 132, 135-36, 147, 172, 200-03, 206-07, 220, 223-29, 232 See also Billy Budd, Clarel, The Confidence-Man, Israel Potter, Mardi, Moby-Dick, Omoo, Pierre, Redburn, Typee, White-Jacket Melville, Malcolm (Herman’s older son), 38-39, 95, 172, 228-29 Melville, Maria Gansevoort (Herman’s mother), 35, 37-39, 89, 94-95, 110, 136, 138, 150, 156, 170-75, 177-79, 201 Melville, Sophia (Herman’s sister-in-law, Allan’s wife), 139 Melville, Stanwix (Herman’s younger son), 170, 172, 229 Metcalf, Eleanor, 38, 239-40, 243-44 Mitchell, Donald G. (“Ik Marvel”), 106, 145-46 Moby-Dick (Melville) Ahab and, 3, 76, 96-100, 118-20, 132, 146, 160, 165-66, 187-88, 191, 241, 244 Arrowhead and, 3-4, 93-95, 99-100, 113-14 as “blasphemous,” and “wicked,” 4-5, 101-02, 106, 146-47, 162 dedication to Hawthorne and, 164 eroticism in, 102, 106-07 Essex disaster and, 98 Greylock and, 94, 97, 118 Nathaniel Hawthorne on, 94,161-65,167 Sophia Hawthorne’s opinion of, 208-09 Ishmael and, 24, 47, 76, 78, 96, 99, 107, 117-18, 120, 166, 170, 205, 210 as literary and financial gamble, 8, 87-89, 100, 107-08, 169-70, 207, 225 Sarah Morewood’s connections to, 5-7,16, 53, 78, 88-89, 99-100, 102-04, 106-08, 113, 137, 146-147, 157, 173-74, 176-77, 195, 238 Pequod and, 3, 96-97, 99-100, 107, 118, 120, 127 Pierre and, 48, 157, 159, 187-89, 191 publication of, 3, 154, 161, 170 Queequeg and, 96, 107, 166 reviews of, 4, 56, 165-68, 173-74 reputation of, 5, 7, 244-45 sales of, 4 symbolism of the whale in, 97 Turner’s influence on, 115-121, 162, 234 as war story at sea, 96-97 The Whale as title of, 169 Whaleman’s Chapel and, 118 writing of, 39-40, 78, 88-89, 93-96, 98, 113, 135, 176 Monroe, James, 14 Morewood, Alfred (Sarah’s younger son), 193, 198, 247 Morewood, Anne Rachel (Sarah’s daughter), 198-200, 247 Morewood, George (Rowland’s father), 109 Morewood, John Rowland (Sarah’s husband), 21, 108, 175, 200 appearance and character of, 2, 42, 134, 235 Berkshires and, 19, 22, 41, 199-200, 235 death of, 247 English background of, 81-82, 109-110, 134 Episcopal church and, 2, 19, 235 New York business of, 2, 19, 41, 134, 235 purchase of Broadhall by, 22, 41-43, 81-82, 85-87 Sarah’s death and, 218-19 Sarah’s relationship with, 41-42, 151, 177, 180, 198 wedding of, 18 Morewood, Maria Gansevoort “Milie” (Melville’s niece, and Sarah’s daughter-in-law), 201

Morewood, Sarah Anne Huyler appearance of, 2, 45, 61-62, 198 Berkshires loved by, 19, 43, 217-18 birth of, 18 Black Quake and, 59, 111-12, 173 Broadhall laurel wreath ceremony and, 5-6, 85-86, 175 character of, 8-9, 21-22, 149, 173 children of, 19, 193, 198-200, 201, 217-19, 247 in Civil War period, 213-17 death of, 218-21 George Duyckinck’s relationship with, 148-51 Elsie Venner and, 62-63, 65-67, 69, 83, 140-41, 149, 221 family background of, 18-19 Alexander Gardiner and,19-22 Greylock essay by, 136-38, 144-47 on Hawthorne, 71-72 Dr. Holmes and, 8, 61-69, 140-41, 148-49, 221 husband’s relationship with, 41-42, 151, 177, 180, 198 on Melville as companion, 178-79 Melville’s confession of devotion for, 111-112 Melville’s letters to, 9-10, 102-04, 176-77, 199-200, 202-03, 207 Melville’s mother and, 175, 177-78 Melville’s poetry and, 108, 122, 215-16, 227-28, 234-38 Melville’s reading and, 48-50, 53-54, 176, 195-96, 203-04 Melville’s social activities with, 1-7, 44-46, 51-59, 87, 133-35, 144-48, 153-54, 161, 173-75 Melville’s terms of endearment for, 9-10,176-77, 199, 202, 207 Moby-Dick and, 5-7,16, 53, 78, 88-89, 99-100, 102-04, 106-08, 113, 137, 146-147, 157, 173-74, 176-77, 195, 238 on mother’s death, 217 Pierre and, 47-48, 155, 157-58, 180, 188-89, 192-96, 198, 203 poetry of, 2, 82-84, 110, 150-51, 215-16, 237 purchase of Broadhall by, 22, 41-43, 81-82, 85-87 social events hosted by, 1-7, 44-46, 51-59, 87, 135, 137-41, 144-47, 153-54, 161, 173-75 visit to England by, 81-82, 109-110, 113-14, 131 wedding of, 18 Morewood, William (Sarah’s oldest child), 19, 201, 217-19, 247 Mosses from an Old Manse (Hawthorne), 75-79, 88, 122, Mottram, Charles, 121 Murray, Henry A., 101-04, 107-08, 159

Nettleton, Edward, 214 New Monthly Magazine, 116 New York City, 2, 4, 15, 17-19, 35, 37-39, 41, 44-45, 57, 65, 87, 89, 133- 34, 136, 149, 151, 173-174, 201, 209-10, 218, 220, 223-25, 228, 231, 233, 243 New York Daily News, 26 New York Evening Mirror, 185 New York Independent, 165 New York Times, 233 New-York Tribune, 26, 40, 165, 200 New York World, 247

Omoo (Melville), 24, 28, 54, 233 Othello (Shakespeare), 26, 28 Oxenham, Ellen Astor, 26

Parker, Hershel, 85 Philadelphia American Saturday Courier, 165 Philbrick, Nathaniel, 7 Pierce, Franklin, 207 Pierre (Melville), 8, 172, 204 Berkshires and, 46-47, 155, 160, 194-96 Duyckincks and, 191-92 Mt. Greylock and, 194-96 Harper & Brothers as publishers of, 185, 187, 191-92 Hawthorne and, 156-57, 192 love and, 47-48, 157-60, 181, 188, 227 F.O. Matthiessen on, 181-82 Somerset Maugham on, 193-94 Melville’s career affected by, 170, 193, 196, 199, 205 Moby-Dick and, 48, 157, 159, 187-89, 191 reviews of, 185-87, 191-92 sales of, 192 Sarah Morewood and, 47-48, 155, 157-58, 180, 188-89, 192-96, 198, 203 writing of, 155, 172, 189 Pilgrims of the Rhine, The (Bulwer-Lytton), 195-96 Pittsfield Cemetery, 82, 84, 220, 247-48 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1, 4, 8-9, 13, 15, 17, 20-22, 29, 41-42, 55, 61-63, 67, 71, 85-89, 93, 99, 102, 104-05, 115, 120, 133-34, 136, 140, 146, 155, 162, 166, 172-74, 179-80, 182, 187, 195, 202, 211, 214-15, 221, 223, 235-36, 248 Pittsfield Sun, 2, 83, 216 Poe, Edgar Allan,198 Pontoosuc, Lake, 45, 153, 236-37 Poussin, Nicolas,121 Punch, 116

Récamier, Juliette, 14 Redburn (Melville), 28 Rembrandt, 120 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 121 Rogers, Samuel, 120-23, 210-11 Rosenbach Museum and Library (Philadelphia), 48 Rowlandson, Thomas, 53 Rubens, Peter Paul, 120

Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 64-65, 71-73, 76-80, 163, 182, 207 Schiller, Friedrich von, 241 Scott, Sir Walter, 52, 122 Shakespeare, William, 3, 75-77, 169 See also Othello Shaw, Hope, 32-33 Shaw, Lemuel (Melville’s father-in-law), 34, 37, 39, 64, 122, 197 Arrowhead and, 84-86, 88, 205, 224 Beacon Hill residence of, 31-33, 95, 182, 186-87, 202 character of, 32-33 death of, 223 Typee dedicated to, 36-37 Shaw, Samuel, 226 Shelley, Percy Bysshe,196 Smith, J. E. A., 86-87, 136, 138, 145-46, 235 Smollett, Tobias, 52-54 Southern Quarterly Review, 165 Spirit of the Times (New York), 165 Sterling Memorial Library (Yale), 22 Stoddard, Richard Henry, 231-32 Stott, Rebecca,102 Student’s Manual, The (Todd), 105 Sumner, Charles,17

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 121 Thoreau, Henry David, 126, 143 Titian, 120 Times (London), 24 Todd, Reverend John, 105-06, 145, 217 Toft, Peter, 233-34 Turner, J. M. W., 115-21, 162, 210, 234 Tyler, John, 19-20, 22 Tyler, Julia Gardiner, 19-20 Typee (Melville), 23-28, 34, 36-37, 39, 43, 98, 120, 168, 187, 190-91, 193, 234-35, 239 Fayaway and, 23-24, 26-27, 29, 36-37, 46, 148, 159

Updike, John, 53

Weaver, Raymond, 244 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Thoreau), 126 Wendell, Jacob, 63 White-Jacket (Melville), 28, 127, 233 Whitman, Walt, 57 Whitmarsh, Caroline, 43, 217-18, 220-21 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 65 Wordsworth, William, 121, 130

Zanoni (Bulwer-Lytton), 175-76