Extremely scarce ANS, one page, 4 x 2.25, January 31, no year. In full: “Please admit the bearer.” Affixed to a same-size slip. In very good condition, with three vertical folds (two passing through letters of the signature), scattered stains, and trimmed edges. According to the scholarly edition of Melville’s correspondence edited by Lynn Horth, this pass presumably dates to January 31, 1859, for a lecture Melville gave for the Mechanic Apprentices’ Library Association in Boston; this is the only lecture he is known to have delivered on the last day of January during his three-year career as a lecturer. The topic was the ‘South Seas’ and his experiences there, which had served as the inspiration for his first two books, Typee and Onoo. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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