[Whaling]:

$12,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[ARCHIVE OF SEVERAL INTERRELATED NANTUCKET SEAFARING AND WHALING FAMILIES, CONTAINING CORRESPONDENCE, INVOICES AND RECEIPTS, A MANUSCRIPT LOGBOOK, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND ... An extensive archive collecting material from several interrelated Nantucket seafaring and whaling families over multiple generations, including correspondence, invoices and receipts, a manuscript logbook, photographs, and various other items. The core is material documenting ship captain Henry Bigelow's time in Lahaina, Maui, where he served briefly as U.S. vice consul, including many documents relating directly to his involvement with the infamously corruption-ridden U.S. Marine Hospital at Lahaina. Also significant is the manuscript logbook of George H. Brock, captain of the clipper ship Midnight, covering a ten-year period from 1862 to 1872, during which he made numerous voyages between Boston, San Francisco, and New York, as well as to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Calcutta, Cochin (Kochi), Rangoon (Yangon), Cardiff, and Yokohama. Additional contents include various collections of family correspondence, numbering more than thirty letters in total, including two from James Hussey Barker to his mother, written while on a nearly two-year-long whaling voyage in the Atlantic, three from James' brother Edward to their sister, Mary Barker Bigelow, concerning her youngest son Edward Bigelow and whether he is fit for a life at sea, and a gold rush letter from Thomas Coleman, Jr., who, along with hundreds of other

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