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was once in the house ( arrowhead in pittsfield mass ) melville left before writing 'billy budd'



melville timeline

" Created slowly over the last five years of his life, the novella Billy Budd represents Melville's return to prose fiction after three decades when he wrote only poetry. He started it as a poem, a ballad entitled "Billy in the Darbies", which he intended to include in his book, John Marr and Other Sailors. "


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd

johnny marr is the songwriter / guitarist of the smiths

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Marr
bette davis grew up in a boarding school in lanesboro mass which is the town just to the north of pittsfield:

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the original taft name was the irish taaffe which came from the welsh taffy meaning dafydd or david a famous welsh saint and a famous prince of wales


 https://books.google.com/books?id=M7Fo3O4f9PkC&pg=PA437&lpg=PA437&dq=taff+the+welshman+melville&source=bl&ots=kcwfbfWRk2&sig=lJs_Ht_A4b1fruqeIX3Xfclrlzg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCi8TZj57UAhUj4IMKHXfiAcoQ6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=taff%20the%20welshman%20melville&f=false

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