MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Autograph note signed (“H Melville”) to Jesse Kenneth Furlong, Pittsfield, February 1855.

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Autograph note signed (“H Melville”) to Jesse Kenneth Furlong, Pittsfield, February 1855.

One page, 200 x 128mm (toned at extreme top left margin).

Melville offers his thanks for an "etching of Washington's head." Answering a separate question from his correspondent, he notes that the "book you refer to was published I think in 1846" (possibly a reference to his first book, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life). Furlong (1834-1895) was a New York attorney, amateur historian, and autograph collector.