474 Herman Melville
The History of Literature
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The Life and Times of Irving Hawthorne
Melville wrote reviews of Hawthorne's work and he borrowed enough money from his new father-in-law to buy a farm near Hawthorne's property in Massachusetts they had met briefly earlier at a party. Melville dedicated Moby Dick to Hawthorne but eventually it seems that Hawthorne grew tired of Melville whom he found exhausting. Henry F. Chorley writing for the London Athenium: "The idea of a connected and collected story has obviously visited and abandoned its writer again and again"
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