Manuscripts
Narrative of the discovery ship "Victory:" manuscript
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An account of the natives of the track of land forming the N.E. point of North America discovered in 1829: manuscript
Manuscripts
Manuscript by Sir John Ross about his second voyage in search of a north-west passage (1829).
mssHM 748
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Charles Steward journal of the East India Company ship Duchess of Athol
Manuscripts
A ship's logbook written by Second Officer Charles Steward, recording the first voyage of the ship Duchess of Athol from England to Canton (Guangzhou), China. Entries run from 26 November 1821 to 24 May 1823. Contents include a crew list, passenger lists, weather reports, navigational records, and details of activities at port in India and China. With heraldic bookplate of Charles Steward. The volume is accompanied by three newspaper clippings, glued on paper, about the murder of Charles Steward, 1844 and 1845. The volume is partially blank.
mssHM 84093
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West wind: the life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe: manuscript
Manuscripts
Manuscript of Douglas S. Watson's biography of mountain man and scout Joseph Reddeford Walker (1798-1876), who helped blaze the California Trail. The biography traces Walker's early life in the southeast, his frequent travels throughout the Midwestern and Western United States (many of them with Captain Benjamin Bonneville), his participation in buffalo hunts and fur trapping, his expedition to California in 1833, his interactions and confrontations with California Indians, and his later trips to and settlement in California from the 1840s-1870s. Inscribed by P.H. Booth. Bound.
mssHM 74608
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A narrative ; or an historicall account of the most materiall passages in the life of John Rastrick... : manuscript
Manuscripts
An autograph manuscript of Rastrick's account of his life; the title page contains the subtitle: "...An unworthy Minister of Jesus Christ at Kirkton in Holland in Lincolnshire. And afterwards Preacher to a private Congregation at Spalding in ye same Country, & Rotheram in Yorkshire, and at Lyme-Regis in Norfolk." With limp vellum covers; in half morocco slip case. Facing the title page is a memorandum to Rastrick's son requesting that each of his children have an account of the narrative of his life; folio 89 is a family register which records deaths into the mid-eighteenth century.
mssHM 6131
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López De Haro's logbook
Manuscripts
This extremely important logbook records the historic voyage of Lopez de Haro in the 'San Carlos' which accompanied Captain Estevan Jose Martinez' frigate, the 'Princesa' on its expedition of discovery to the north Californian coast. The manuscript describes the daily events and observations from the San Carlos from the 8th March 1788 when the Expedition left San Blas, to 22nd October, 1788, when they regained that port. In many of his notes, Lopez de Haro mentions that he was obliged to abandon the Spanish chart which he carried and refer to that of Cook, which he found a better guide, more especially in the region of Prince William port and Montague Island, which they reached on the 27th May. Text in Spanish.
mssHM 146
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Derrotero del Viage...en descubriminento del la Costa Oriental de Californias hasta el Rio Colorado, en donde seacaba su estrecho...: handwritten manuscripts
Manuscripts
These manuscripts describe the route of the voyage of discovery along the east coast of lower California (Baja, Mexico) up to the Colorado River where the gulf ends taken by Konsag in June and July 1746. The voyage was ordered by Cristóbal de Escobar y Llamas, Jesuit Provincial of New Spain. Although the manuscripts have the same title, they are two different manuscripts. HM 1293 is 36 pages and includes a map of the area. HM 1294 is 42 pages and does NOT contain a map. They are in Spanish.
mssHM 1293-1294