Primary Sources
American Periodicals Series Online
For proximity searching use w/[n] , e.g., to retrieve texts that speak of Melville within twenty words of Emerson, enter: Melville w/20 emerson.
British Periodicals Online
For proximity searching use near/[n], e.g. religious near/30 skeptic* and perhaps a date range.
HATHITrust Digital Library
Contains the full text of some of the twenty million books in the Google.Books project. Unfortunately they do not provide for proximity searching.
Department of Special Collections
For first editions by Melville or his contemporaries, use the library’s catalog, go to Advanced Search, enter author=Melville and location = Hesburgh special collections.
For antebellum manuscrips: http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/early_american/index.shtml
For Civil War manuscripts: http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/civil_war/index.shtml
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time.
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