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<Text id=MelRedb>
<Author>Melville, Herman</Author>
<Title>Redburn, His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service</Title>
<Edition>Redburn, His First Voyage; White-Jacket, or, The World in a Man-of-War; Moby-Dick, or, The Whale. G. Thomas Tanselle, ed. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., Inc., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1849</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>MelRedb2</locdoc><milestone n=2> TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER
<div0 type=chapter n=1>
<p> THOMAS MELVILLE
<p> Now a Sailor on a Voyage to China
<p> THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED
<i>Chapter 1</i> How Wellingborough Redburn's Taste for the Sea Was Born and Bred in Him
<p>Wellingborough, as you are going to sea, suppose
you take this shooting-jacket of mine along; it's just the
thing -- take it, it will save the expense of another. You
see, it . . .
