Hotchkiss-Gray Collection
Abstract
This is a collection of diaries, journals, letterpress copybooks, and logs, kept by Gray, his wife, and her father, Capt. Levi Hotchkiss, of Gloucester, Mass. It also includes logs kept by Hotchkiss on board the ships SHOOTING STAR, JOHN LUND and GRACE DARLING, engaged in the China, India, and South American trade; journals and diaries kept by Emma Gray, aboard the ship HARVARD (1855-1856) before her marriage and the steamer FIRE QUEEN, containing descriptions of China; and logs kept by Horatio Gray aboard the ships CHARLOTTE REED, CRISIS, SOPHIA WALKER, MEDFORD, and JOHN AND ALBERT, bark COSSACK, and brig PENNMAQNON.
Dates
- Creation: 1851 - 1882
Language of Materials
English Latin
Restrictions on Access
Available for use in the Manuscripts Division
Restrictions on Use
Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from the Manuscripts Division.
Biography of Captains Levi Hotchkiss and Horatio Nelson Gray
Captain Horatio Nelson Gray (1829-1882), born in North Yarmouth, Maine, was a first mate by 1950, an a blue-water shipmaster until retiring in the early 1860's to command a steamer on the Yangtze River in China. He returned to the U.S. later in the 1870's and served briefly as a surveyor of the Port of Baltimore before his death. Captain Levi Hotchkiss of Gloucester was master of the ships HARVARD, SHOOTING STAR, JOHN LUND, and GRACE DARLING. Emma Hotchkiss Gray (ca 1841-1899), daughter of Captain Levi Hotchkiss, met Captain Gray at sea while sailing in her father's ship HARVARD. They married six years later, in 1861. She accompanied Captain Gray to China and lived abroad his steamer on the Yangtze River.
Extent
13 piece(s) (2 boxes)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Baltimore (Md.)
- China--Description and travel
- Gloucester (Mass.)
- India--Description and travel
- South America--Description and travel.
- Yangtze River (China)--Description and travel
- Yarmouth (Me.)
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Hotchkiss-Gray Collection (Coll. 89)
- Subtitle
- An Inventory of the Collection at the G.W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscripts Repository
G. W. Blunt White Library
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
112 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic CT 06355 United States
860.572.5367
collections@mysticseaport.org