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Private journal of a cruize in the U.S. schooner Enterprise Lt. A.S. Campbell Esq. commanding in the East Indias & China Seas

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Description: Journal kept by Henry Cadwalader, a midshipman of the United States Navy on board the U.S. schooner Enterprise and U.S. sloop of war Peacock sailing to Zanzibar, Oman, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and Indonesia from August 1835 to April 1836. Cadwalader's entries are very detailed, and he makes comments on each port and town visited. He writes about his fellow sailors, life on board the ship, and the people he encounters on land. He describes street scenes and mentions other ships arriving in the harbor. The journal contains several sketches done by Cadwalader: on the page before title page there are several sketches of people and the ship Peacock (the page is torn so some sketches were lost) and there is a sketch of the "Town of Zanzibar from the Harbour" above the entry for September 17, 18, 19, 1835.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1835-1836.
Call number: mssHM 83980
Creator: Cadwalader, Henry (1817-1844)

Mary Cadwalader Jones travel documents and letters

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This small group of items include several travel documents belonging to Mary Cadwalader Jones, including passports, visas, etc., for travels to France in 1914 and 1915. One of the documents is a permit to "travel by motor vehicle," in France, for Edith Wharton, critic Percy Lubbock (whose signatures are on the document), Mary Cadwalader Jones, and their chauffeur Charles Cook (1915, September 13). There are also two letters by Walter H. Page, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom: one letter to Jones and a letter of introduction for Jones to present to people she meets on her trip to France. There is also a "Four-leaved clover from Verdun" in an envelope. There are items in English and French.

mssHM 81398 (a-k)

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Henry T. Huggins letter to Mrs. Henry T. Huggins

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In his letter to his wife, Huggins describes an excursion in Iowa Territory he and some companions take to accompany the Fox and Sauk Indians on a buffalo hunt. He also discusses the town of Burlington, Iowa, and his legal dealings there.

mssHM 60699

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Edward King diary of a trip to Japan and China

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In his diary, King writes about his travels across Japan and China beginning with his departure from Shanghai to Nagasaki in March 1859. He writes in detail about his journey including the food on board, Japanese officials, local customs, the difficulty of changing money, and his visits to Nagasaki and Dejima. King's diary also covers his travel to Ningbo, China where he also writes in detail about the people and culture. The diary also includes a 2-page list of English-Japanese vocabulary, a fold-out map of Nagasaki, a Japan treasury certificate, and 25 pages of Japanese colored woodblock prints.

mssHM 84029

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Journal of a cruise on board of the U.S. ship of war Chesapeake James Barron Esq. Commander in the Mediterranean Command of Saturday, 16th June, 1807, by Lieut. W.H. Allen

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The log book kept by William H. Allen onboard of the Chesapeake. The entries cover the periods of June 6 - July 11 and Sept. 2-6, 1807; and June 11-13, July 13-23, Aug. 2- Sept. 1, 1808.

mssHM 564

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Milo Calkin journal of a voyage on a whaling vessel and shipwreck in the South Pacific

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The journal begins with Calkin leaving Auburn, New York on September 24, 1833, for Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he signs on to the crew of the whaling ship Independence, captained by Isaac Brayton. Calkin provides descriptions of whaling, icebergs, other ships encountered, a burial at sea, storms, and weather. The journal chronicles the ship's journey around Cape Horn to Chile and Peru, including a visit ashore to Lima and its Bellavista and Callao areas with descriptions of a Catholic Church and damage from the 1746 earthquake; the Galapagos Islands; the Marquesas Islands and Nuku Hiva, where he describes the Indigenous people and details a fatal encounter of two shipmates with locals; and to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii). Following the shipwreck of the Independence on Starbuck Island on December 13, 1835, Calkin describes taking shelter on the deserted island and then going to sea in smaller boats with crewmates, eventually landing in the Cook Islands--first on Manuae Atoll, also known as the Hervey Islands, then Aitutaki and Rarotonga. The journal contains descriptions of the islands, local inhabitants, flora, and Christian missionaries encountered. Calkin then travels to the Sandwich Islands in November 1836, where he lives until January 1842; there is little description of his life there. The journal also contains 13 watercolor sketches of whales and whaling, icebergs, birds, flora, an iguana on the Galapagos Islands, and buildings in the Sandwich Islands. Some of the journal appears to have been written retrospectively. Also present is a loose letter from U.D. Kellogg, Harpersfield, Ohio, to Kezia Calkin, Sandusky, Ohio, approximately 1835 (1 page).

mssHM 26539

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Voyages round the World : with selected sketches of voyages to the South Seas, north and south Pacific oceans, China, etc

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An autograph manuscript of Edmund Fanning's memoir "Voyages round the world...;" it includes a title page, introduction, and chapters I-XXV. The manuscript is written in both pen and pencil, on various sizes of paper, with corrections and additions; it is incomplete with some chapters missing. In addition to the manuscript, there are unidentified supplementary autograph notes and a draft of Fanning's proposal to Congress for the opening of trade with New South Wales.

mssHM 84119

Private journal of a cruize in the U.S. schooner Enterprise Lt. A.S. Campbell Esq. commanding in the East Indias & China Seas

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