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Henry W. Hiller Collection
Correspondence, diary, notes for speeches, documents, photographs, and other papers of Hiller and his wife Liuboff Gouberoff Hiller, relating to his career as a whaler out of New Bedford, Massachusetts; his work in Siberia as a commercial agent for Boston importers William H. Boardman & Company; as U.S. consul during the Lincoln administration; his specialization in the jewelry trade in New York, and his association with Tiffany & Company.
Henry Wadsworth Fletcher Collection
Henry W.B. Willis Collection
The bulk of this collection is approximately 74 letters, primarily between Henry Willis and Sarah Freeman Willis from 1852 to 1860. Other correspondence involves various Willis and Freeman family members including parents, brothers and sisters. These letters offer a view of family relationships and domestic activities for two New York/New Jersey families during the middle years of the 19th century.
Hezekiah Dickens Collection
This is a collection of household bills and receipts, and medical and tax receipts, of Dickens' family; together with bills, receipts, and settlements, relating to the whaling ships TYBEE and NEWARK.
Hilgard Pannes Diaries
Journals, kept by Pannes on board the ship JOSEPH CONRAD and 4-master bark PARMA on training and shipping Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific voyages; together with private journal kept during a tour in Saudi Arabia. Persons represented include Alan Villiers.
Hillman Shipyard Collection
Correspondence; genealogical notes, including material on early Nantucket whaling; ships' lines of the ship UNION; spar measurements for ships CHARLES W. MORGAN, ARGO, CALIFORNIA, SEA NYMPH, BONITA, and SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS; dimensions of ship SEA WITCH and barks ELIZABETH HULL and JANE A. FALKENBERG; surveys of ships MARIA THERESA and HIAWATHA, and barks MERMAID and JOHN P. WEST; memo of charges for repairs to ship HUNTRESS; and list of vessels built by the yard.