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Herman Melville - J.O. Eaton Portrait - 1870 - by Permission of Harvard University

Portrait by Joseph Oriel Eaton, 1870, by permission of Houghton Library, Harvard University [*61Z-4]
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Leviathan

Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies appears three times a year in March, June, and October. We welcome articles, notes, reviews, and creative writing on the life, works, and influence of novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891). Click here for more information.

Melville Electronic Library

The Melville Electronic Library is an online resource for Melville texts. Housed on a Hofstra University server, MEL is being developed and maintained by a group of Melville scholars and digital specialists.

Johns Hopkins University Press

To join the Melvillle Society and subscribe to Leviathan, visit Leviathan's Johns Hopkins University Press journal site by clicking here.

Melville Society Cultural Project

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in collaboration with The Melville Society is the established home of the Melville Society Cultural Project and Melville Society Archive. The Melville Society Archive is housed at the New Bedford Whaling Museum's Research Library, where significant works from this collection are also on display. The Melville Society Cultural Project also sponsors a book donation program and presents exciting annual events including the Moby-Dick Marathon and a Birthday Lecture.

New Bedford Whaling Museum

The New Bedford Armory, Part II

If you read my essay titled A Castle for New Bedford: The Building of the New Bedford Armory, 1898-1904, you may be interested to know[…]
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New Bedford Gas Explosions – January 18, 1977, forty years ago today

The tranquility of the predawn hours of that frigid January morning in 1977 was abruptly shattered like the thousands of window panes throughout the downtown.[…]
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Why black whales are called “right whales”

By Michael P. Dyer, Senior Maritime Historian, New Bedford Whaling Museum By the early 20th century, black whales, Eubalaena spp, had come to be uniformly[…]
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History of seafood marketing in the Port of New Bedford, Massachusetts

Arthur P. Motta, Jr. Curator, New Bedford & Old Dartmouth History. In August 2014, the Massachusetts Legislature passed a law aimed at creating a “coordinated[…]
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Quasimodo: The Museum’s Humpback Whale

Story by Lauren Coombes, Education Intern. The Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) skeleton that hangs in the Jacob’s Family Gallery is a 37 foot long male[…]
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Donation Programs

To support our ongoing activities, please consider donating to the following Special Funds:

• Walter Bezanson Fellowship (research support)

The Walter Bezanson Fellowship will supplement funds from the Melville Society Cultural Project to support a scholar to work in the Melville Archive at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

• Hennig Cohen Endowment (annual essay prize)

• Henry Murray Endowment (publications and general support)

• Melville Society Cultural Project (archive, book donations, research fellowship)

You can use one of the PayPal buttons to the right on this page, or you can mail to our treasurer a check made out to The Melville Society:

Steven Olsen-Smith
Department of English
Boise State University
Boise, ID 83725-1525

Please be sure to write on your check the purpose of your donation.

Special Payments

For special payments not related to annual membership dues or donations, e.g., for conference fee payments, you can use the "Other Payment" PayPal button to the right.

If you are making a "Special Payment," please let us know the purpose of your payment by using the dropdown menu above the "Other Payment" button and providing a detailed description using the "Add Note" link on the PayPal checkout page.