A Dictionary of Selected Jacksonian Writers

cited in Edgar Allan Poe's "A Chapter on Autography"

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REYNOLDS, Jeremiah N. ?1799-1858? - Poe’s “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” (1837) is based on Reynold’s actual travels on a whaler. Poe reviewed his Address, on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas (1836) in the Southern Literary Messenger. He also seems to be the same (obscure) man whose article on a white whale named ‘Mocha Dick’ in the Knickerbocker magazine (May 1839) inspired the name for “Moby Dick”.

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