Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories
- AU PMB MS 767B
- Collectie
- 1829 - 1856
Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200.
This reel contains journals and correspondence as indicated: OCEAN PEARL; Journal, Captain Winthrop Sears, 1854-56 Tufts, Henry; Letterbook - correspondence from father re ships and shipping, 1845-46 Tufts, Alfred; Letters to mother, 1854-55 Tufts, George; Letters to mother, 1855 RODMAN; Journal, Captain Wm. Whitton, 1859-63 PLANT; Journal, 1829-31 Of special interest on this reel (OCEAN PEARL; 1854-56) Excellent account of shipboard life, of relations between passengers; good descriptions of ports visited and life in Hawaii; smoking volcano in Mariana Islands
For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984.
New England Microfilming Project