The Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati--about which Melville wrote in some late prose sketches

Can anyone find a copy of the paper on the Cincinnati by Henry Thayer Drowne which was published in the Providence Journal on 6 July 1878?

Yes. Greg Lennes can and did. Thanks, Greg.

http://archive.org/stream/rhodeislandsocie01soci#page/n1/mode/2up

http://archive.org/details/rhodeislandsocie01soci

Can someone correct George Long Duyckinck's death year in Wikipedia? See Parker 2.533-534.

George Long Duyckinck

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George Long Duyckinck

George Long Duyckinck (October 17, 1828 – March 30, 1868) was a New York City writer.

Biography . . . 

On Parker 2:534 is Oakey Hall's masterpiece of a condolence letter.

HOOSICK, NEAR TROY March 31, 1863  Oakey Hall writes to Evert Duyckinck:

          In a little town to which business called me: in the midst of a driving snowstorm: just toward dusk: and with everything cheerless about me I learn of the death of George.  It is a great shock: for I did not even know he was ill: & I shall not, I fear, reach town to attend the funeral, but shall try.

          You know Evert I have knocked around the edges of society of all sorts & have for a man of my years seen a great deal of the bad side of life without being in it or of it.  I can therefore well admire & esteem such a meek and unaffectedly just man as was George.  To me he stands out in very bold relief as such a man.  He was guileless, charitable to the failings of others, detesting wrong & deceit.  You see I dwell on the things which to me seem great virtues.  Others will speak of his talents, & literary labors & of his mind & its acumen.  But to me a good man & that my friend is praise above all praise . . .  NYPL-D

Cousin Jane Hits the 10 Pound Note

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23424289

It's a great week for descendants of Tom Leigh.

A Plea from Hershel Parker: Who Can Find an Unknown Printing of a Poem by Herman Melville?

Melville's copying out "The Age of the Antonines" on 31 March 1877 may have inspired him to try to get it (or perhaps another poem) into print.  On 17 June 1877 his sister Fanny wrote to Kate Gansevoort Lansing: "Ever so much love for Abe.  Did he receive the paper containing those lines by Herman?  'Why I am A Churchman' has arrived; many thanks for sending it on, I wanted to read it."  The context, members of the family passing on reading material, suggests strongly that Fanny or someone else had sent Abe a newspaper containing some poetry by Herman in it, but no such publication has been found. Can anyone find it?

Whales and anchovies at Avila Beach today

http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/07/23/3401884/in-video-whales-almost-swallow.html

Andrew Costner and Hershel Parker

With Gene and Alice's last child, Andrew.

Andrew Costner May 6, 1913 to March 22, 2001

Sabrina and Brett in Oregon July 2013

Sabrina at 46.

Sendak in Landenberg 1993 Some 400 Feet North of the Mason-Dixon Line

I just saw this while looking for something else and had to re-post it. It's my favorite picture of him. Three states come together in the woods behind him. What came together to make him what he was?

Twice the Costner Kevin Is

Pick-Me-Up Reminder #15: Like Cousin Bill Costner, I'm twice the Costner Kevin is.

Cousin Francis Marion Dougherty in 1918

Carilyn DoughertyHabit of Letters

Over a million copies were distributed to soldiers in 1918. Every A.E.F. soldier in WWI, upon debarkation in England, was given an envelope with these words on it, "A Message to You from His Majesty King George."

Inside the royal arms embossed on stationary-style paper was a message from King George V, in facimile handwriting. Granddad scribbled a quick note at the bottom, added his initials & sent it home as reassurance that he had arrived without incident.

AND HOW MANY PEOPLE NOW REMEMBER HOW THIS COUSIN OF LBJ'S GOT THE NAMES FRANCIS MARION?--Family soldiers in many wars, remembering.