Moby Dick author Herman Melville’s London townhouse is for sale for £9 million

During his short time in London, Melville was busy: he attended concerts, theatre shows and dinner parties at night; art galleries and historical points of interest by day. In his diaries, he wrote about attending the “most bloated pomp” of the Lord Mayor’s Show and witnessing a public hanging, which he called a “most wonderful, horrible, and unspeakable scene”.