Melville in Love (14 page)

Herman Melville

Sarah Morewood

Broadhall in 1900

Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with Pittsfield in the center, Lenox below, and Lake Pontoosuc and Greylock above

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A drawing of Arrowhead by Herman Melville

The view from Melville's room at Arrowhead in 2015

Mary Butler, the bride Melville “kidnapped” in 1850

The copy of Dryden's poems that Melville gave to Sarah Morewood

The agreement between Melville and Harper & Brothers for
The Whale,
with the last-minute addition of its final title

At the summit of Mount Greylock

Evert Duyckinck