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In memoriam : Samuel Edwin Solly, M.D., M.R.C.S., Brig.-Gen. Charles H. Alden, M.D., U.S.A., W.C. Glasgow, M.D
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Personal journal that Charles Henry Alden kept while onboard of the Delaware. The journal, intended for his wife, consists of detalied and vivid accounts of the Delaware's voyages in South America and the Mediterranean, complete with watercolor and pencil illustrations, samples of the ship's logs, index and appendix consisting of clippings of Alden's newspaper articles. The manuscript opens with Alden's letter to his wife that recaps the events between his leaving home and the Delaware's departure for South America, followed by a copy of the letter from the Delaware officers to the departing Secretary of the Navy George Edmund Badger (Sep. 1841), an account of the day in port at Hampton Roads, and the detailed, illustrated description of the Delaware. The journal proper begins on p. 115. The entries include accounts of the life onboard; marine wildlife, encounters with other ships; an arrest of a slaver by the British Navy, sketches of South American landscape, sights, and peoples, including slaves; descriptions of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, including Alden's take on the revolution in Brazil, the battle of Arroyo Grande, and events leading to the Guerra Grande in Uruquay; and accounts of the Mediterranean, including Portugal, Spain, Minorca, and Italy.
mssHM 46321
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Manuscripts
Enclosed in: Tweed letter to Henry E. Huntington, 1902 November 19.
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94339 no. 108.