Manuscripts

Muster or "Compleat" Books for the HMS Norge

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Description: Muster or "Compleat" books for the Norge, consisting of printed pages, filled in, recordfing the names of each member of the crew (including marines), the day he was mustered in, his place of birth, age, time of discharge and why, articles of clothing and tobacco supplied and - less regularly - details of pay. A very few loose pages laid into vol. 4 give details of supplies issued to individual sailors.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1808-1812.
Call number: mssHM 70983 (vols. 1-4)
Creator: Norge (Ship)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc., January 2008.

Hawaiian shipping articles

Manuscripts

Broadside form filled in. A bilingual (English and Hawaiian) broadside documenting the American whaling ship Europa's hiring of Hawaiian crews. The Europa added six native Hawaiians as crew members on 1868 March 24 and 26. The list includes a seaman, a boatsteerer, and four greenhands. Signed by the master of the ship, Thomas Mellen.

mssHM 84022

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Jacob Deeth telegram to Leland Stanford

Manuscripts

Deeth reports of the election of the Grand Marshall of the Pacific Railroad, and the impending celebration "when the last rail is laid." Printed form, filled in.

mssHM 47836

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Muster rolls of companies B and F of the 24th U.S. Infantry

Manuscripts

The muster rolls, each measuring 53 x 81 cm, were kept when the regiment was stationed on the Texas-Mexico border of the Rio Grande Valley in 1874. The documents record information such as pay, duties, discharges, health, and some genealogical information of troop members.

mssHM 83978

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St. Andrew Oliver St. John logbook for HMS Centurion

Manuscripts

Midshipman St. Andrew Oliver St. John kept this logbook that describes the day-to-day activities, along with hand-drawn maps and technical diagrams, of Vice-Admiral Edward Seymour's HMS Centurion expedition to relieve the city of Peking (now known as Beijing) during the Boxer Uprising. The log details the ship's journey through Hong Kong, Taku, Weihai, and other locations as well as provides an eyewitness account of intense resistance from Chinese forces and Seymour's retreat to Tianjin. Many of the entries were reviewed and initialed by Vice-Admiral Seymour. The volume is accompanied by a list of commercial code signals and a page from a 1901 edition of The Navy and Army Illustrated which contains images of the Centurion crew and officers.

mssHM 84493

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Mabel Clarke's cookbook scrapbook and school lesson book : manuscript

Rare Books

Manuscript cookbook/scrapbook containing mounted newspaper clippings with culinary recipes and an index. Notebook appears to have been re-purposed twice. The front endpapers and pages [1]-[4] are an index. On pages [5]-[27] is a handwritten Gospel according to St. Matthew with marginal notes. Pages [28]-[46] are filled with newspaper clippings with culinary recipes mounted over what appears to be handwritten school lessons in grammar, math and geography. Pages [47]-[158] contain the remainder of the handwritten lessons. Additional newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, and culinary recipes on scraps of paper laid in. Also included is a reprint of an albumen photograph with a date on the verso of 1892 (removed to PF).

642095

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Jacob P. Leese letter to Charles Debrille Poston

Manuscripts

Leese writes concerning details of the legal matter "laid before the Mexican Minister" and of his involvement. Leese appears to be forming a company, and decides to grant Poston power of attorney. Typescript of original. Also included are photocopied pages from a pamphlet with a brief biography of Leese.

mssHM 46542

Muster or "Compleat" Books for the HMS Norge

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