During the week of his death, the New York Times wrote: "There has died and been buried in this city...a man who is so little known, even by name, to the generation now in the vigor of life that only one newspaper contained an obituary account of him, and this was but of three or four lines.", Poets.org, About Herman Melville, https://poets.org/poet/herman-melville, retrieved 14 July 2023
