Manuscripts

Letter book, journal, ships' log, photographs

Description: The collection consists of letters, a letter book, manuscripts, a journal, a sketch of Fort Ludlow, Washington, a map, and documents. There is one logbook related to the voyage of the Ship Sarah Parker to San Francisco via Cape Horn, from 1852 to 1855, visits to North Pacific ports, and the return trip to Massachusetts. The journal in the collection is by Charlotte Coffin Gardner. The collection also contains a few accounts for the ships Courier, Mary Mitchell, and Flora. There is also correspondence in the collection from 1920 to 1965, most of which is between Grace Brown Gardner, the granddaughter of William B. Gardner and Charlotte Gardner, and Eleanor Jane Graves. This correspondence focuses on the Gardner journal and early Nantucket inhabitants. There are also photographs of William B. Garner and Charlotte Gardiner, dated between 1850 and 1870.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1847-1870
Call number: mssHM 39178-39180

William Bunker Gardner papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, a letter book, manuscripts, a journal, a sketch of Fort Ludlow, Washington, a map, and documents. There is one logbook related to the voyage of the Ship Sarah Parker to San Francisco via Cape Horn, from 1852 to 1855, visits to North Pacific ports, and the return trip to Massachusetts. The journal in the collection is by Charlotte Coffin Gardner. The collection also contains a few accounts for the ships Courier, Mary Mitchell, and Flora. There is also correspondence in the collection from 1920 to 1965, most of which is between Grace Brown Gardner, the granddaughter of William B. Gardner and Charlotte Gardner, and Eleanor Jane Graves. This correspondence focuses on the Gardner journal and early Nantucket inhabitants. There are also photographs of William B. Garner and Charlotte Gardiner, dated between 1850 and 1870.

mssHM 39123-39180

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Correspondence, maps

Manuscripts

mssHM 39123-39177

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Log book and shipboard journal and watch, quarter and station bill of the USS Franklin

Manuscripts

The log book and shipboard journal, kept by First Lieutenant William M. Hunter on board the USS Franklin, begins on August 15, 1821 while the ship was in New York harbor waiting to set sail and ends August 26, 1824, shortly before the ship's return to New York. The log book includes all the usual information including daily entries listing the course of the ship, the ship's position, weather conditions, water remains, sick reports, and interactions with other ships. Hunter also comments often on the schooner Dolphin and its captain, David Conner, as it was accompanying the Franklin on its journey. It also includes several lengthy entries by Hunter detailing ports of call such as: Arica and Valparaíso, Chile; Callao, Peru; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the Juan Fernández Islands. In these entries he talks about the activities of the crew, meeting local dignitaries, and even mentions Captain Stewart's wife Delia who was also on the voyage. Hunter also comments upon various aspects of the wars of independence against Spain including ships of the Chilean Navy returning from an engagement with Royalists and an attack on Arica, an "undefended town," by a Peruvian ship. The log book also includes 11 sketches by Hunter of various cities and places in South America and a larger chart of Cumberland Bay, also by Hunter, which is folded up and in the log book. The Watch, Quarter and Station bill for the USS Franklin is dated May 1824.

mssHM 70856-70857

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James Gow journal

Manuscripts

The majority of the journal contains prescriptions Gow made for his customers and the recipes for those prescriptions. The volume also contains two other sections: a female relative of Gow's recorded 19th century poetry in parts of the book and there is also a section titled, "Journal of a Seaman in the Forecastle." This diary section contains accounts from 1851 to 1852 of an anonymous sailor who sailed from Boston to San Francisco in a clipper and then chronicles his time in Port Adelaide, Australia. There are also two pages of what may be the ship's manifest.

mssHM 74486

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Account books, journal, and letter book

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the business papers (including some account books and letter books) of Frederick Oliver and Hammond Gowen related to mines and mineral resources in Eastern Township of Quebec, Canada, including the Megantic Mining Company and the Quebec & St. Francis Mining & Exploring Company. The collection also contains a journal by an unknown author of a trip across New York in 1883.

mssOliver

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Sketch of Fort Ludlow, Washington Territory

Manuscripts

Sketch of Port Ludlow mill and townsite as it was in 1856. Also: drawing of house built by Joshua Thorndike in 1856.

mssHM 39177

Letter book, journal, ships' log, photographs

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