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Logbook kept aboard the schooner Arabia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0164
Abstract
This logbook chronicles the voyage of the fishing schooner Arabia from Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the Western Banks of Newfoundland in September 1908.
Dates:
1908
Letters written during a South American cruise
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0460
Abstract
This collection consists of one letterbook containing ten long letters from an anonymous Philadelphian to his friend, Ned, written between 1826-1827. The author, a crew member on the frigate Brandywine, vividly and poetically describes life on board the ship and ashore in South America.
Dates:
1826-1827, 1832