WorkHerman Melville

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

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Documented 1846

Letters

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Horace Greeley

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“Will you send me Typee and Titmarsh's journey. Mr Duyckinck wished me to look at them.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Hudspeth's notes confirm that Melville's Typee was Fuller's subject for an essay in the Tribune on 4 April, and she found it "a very entertaining and pleasing narrative."