Indexed works
Works about or by Herman Melville. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
John Seelye papers,
Seelye, John · 1862
Papers of John Seelye (1931 to 2015), literary scholar and Penguin Classics editor, who taught American literature at Berkeley, Connecticut, UNC Chapel Hill, Dartmouth and Florida. The 26,100 items (46.7 linear feet) run from 1862 to 2015, mostly 1955 to 2007, in series of correspondence and contracts, academic files, research files, writings and personal papers, with Melville and Mark Twain among his subjects.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Research sources
Sources and research tools for this person. Research guide: Trace a family through historical records.
Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Herman Melville Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
