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- 1790-1872 (Creation)
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18 cm of textual records
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Transferred from the Riveredge Foundation, 1979.
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Scope and content
The collection consists of ships' logs, a shipboard newspaper, and a seaman's diary from merchant and naval sailing vessels. Includes the diary of John Bartlett (1790-1795), a member of the crew of the Massachusetts, an American merchant ship sailing from Boston to Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands and back to Canton via the Sandwich Islands. Bartlett then joined the American whaling ship Elenoro, bound back to the USA via Madagascar. Includes the log (1805-1806) of the Royal George, a British merchant ship sailing from England via India to China and back. Includes a manuscript newspaper published aboard the British naval vessel Alceste in 1816. Also includes logs kept aboard British naval vessels as training exercises by junior officers George Buck Keene (1844-1848), G. T. L. Bolton (1860-1865), and Collingwood Fenwick (1870-1872). These logs feature watercolour views of ports visited, profiles of coastlines, and manuscript maps.
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No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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The original John Bartlett diary (M-4843-287) is at the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
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Records are located in the Riveredge Collection, M-4843:
- file 12.54, Barcode 00012171991
- file 16.281 and 17.286, Barcode 00012171995 and 00012171996
- file 18.287, Barcode 00012171997
- file 21.315, Barcode 00012172000
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018