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Joseph Hoare Beale journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0002
Abstract

The Joseph Hoare Beale journals, 1796-1848, consist of nine volumes kept by a world traveler of the late eighteenth to late nineteenth-centuries. Beale, who may have been of Irish origin and served as secretary to Lord Thomas Pitt in Ceylon before traveling to America, recorded weather observations, activities, and expenses in the five "daily weather diaries." He also produced a holograph of Sir Thomas Moore's "Sacred Melodies."

Dates: 1796-1848

Steamship Mary logbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0165
Abstract

This volume is the logbook for the American steamship Mary, chronicling her voyages between Alabama and Florida in 1869.

Dates: 1869

Henry C. Pratt journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0160
Abstract

In these two journal volumes, Henry C. Pratt recorded his travels through southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1825 and his voyages as Surgeon’s Mate in the United States Navy between 1826 and 1828.

Dates: 1825, 1826-1828

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