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Subject: Biography and portrait of Herman Melville
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:08:33 EDT

Melville's father, Allan Melville, an "importer of French Goods and
Commission Merchant" who traveled abroad, was a member of a substantial if colorful
Boston family.

His grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, was a venerable survivor of the
Boston Tea Party whose refusal to change the style of his clothing or his manners
to fit the times made him an emblematic figure in _Oliver Wendell Holmes_
(http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitRC/hits?c=1&b=1819-1891&a=1&iacflag=false&u=LR
C&u=CA&u=CLC&u=DLB&t=KW&s=1&r=d&o=DocTitle&var=&n=50&l=12&k=0&h=DLB01384BIO013
84&g=Herman+Melville&PX=0000067706&DT=Biography) 's poem "The Last Leaf."

_http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/melvillebio.html_
(http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/melvillebio.html)

Epic Poem - The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
_http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/owh/llpix.html_
(http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/owh/llpix.html)

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