Herman Melville

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ON SATURDAY, 9 OCTOBER 1830, in a hastily emptied house on Broadway in lower Manhattan, Herman Melvill, eleven years old, helped his father, Allan Melvill, forty-eight, pack up a remnant of papers and odds and ends of light personal belongings that they could walk away with after dark.

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