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Charles G. Davis Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-253
Abstract
Manuscripts of Davis's published and unpublished works, including several journals written and illustrated by Davis of various yachting cruises and races; published materials as well as personal correspondence, contracts, tax records, and sketches relating to pieces written either by or for Davis, including pages from Yachting, Forest and Stream, and Outing Magazine; notes and newspaper clippings relating to certain yacht races, including some sponsored by Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club;...
Dates:
1890-1950, 1989
Found in:
Manuscripts
Charles K. Stillman Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-324
Scope and Contents
The Charles K. Stillman Collection contains the personal, educational, and and professional papers of Charles Kirtland Stillman. The professional papers include records from Stillman’s medical career in both the military and as a civillian, including those of his time at the Mystic Home Guard. These papers include membership cards, records of certification, and certificates of membership in professional organizations. The military papers also include ephemera, forms, correspondence, and...
Dates:
1894 - 1938
Found in:
Manuscripts
Charles Lewis Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-120
Abstract
Correspondence, depositions, newspapers and clippings, petitions, court orders, memoranda; and printed testimony, bills, and acts, relating to claims filed before the Alabama Claims Court by Richards for losses suffered during the Civil War. Chief parties were the whaling bark PEARL, of New London, Connecticut, destroyed by the C.S.S. SHENANDOAH at Ascension Island, 1865; the whaling bark RICHMOND, of New Bedford, Mass., which was compelled to return crew to Honolulu from vessels taken by...
Dates:
1873 - 1888
Found in:
Manuscripts
Charles Oliver Iselin Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-085
Abstract
Correspondence, construction agreements, charter parties, outfitting documents, accounts, operating expenses, logs, journals, and scrapbooks, relating chiefly to America's Cup races and yachts. Also includes clippings, telegrams, and other items relating to the Lord Dunraven/Charles Iselin controversy. Other topics include the construction, outfitting, and preparation of the COLUMBIA for the 1899 race and the DEFENDER (1895), INTREPID, RELIANCE (1903), and VIGILANT (1893).
Dates:
1893 - 1903
Found in:
Manuscripts
Charles P. Clark Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-135
Abstract
Although the scope of this material covers the period of 1846-1901, there is very little included relative to Clark's post-Civil War business and domestic life. The bulk of the collection covers his merchant shipping activity (1854-1863) and provides an intensive look into a maritime business enterprise. Items include various accounts, shipping papers, invoices, insurance policies, bills, receipts, bills of lading, port sales, etc., relating to Boston-West Africa trade, and in particular,...
Dates:
1846-1901, (bulk 1852-1862)
Found in:
Manuscripts
Charles P. Williams Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-086
Abstract
This collection is one of Mystic Seaport's larger manuscript collections, and includes a vast number of business letters, ca. 1863-1893. There are also general business accounts, bills, receipts, etc., many of which are organized by specific vessels, businesses, or individuals. Included are bills of sale for vessels controlled by Williams, balance sheet, insurance policies, wills, deeds, and other documents. Papers relevant to William's land investments in South Carolina, Georgia, and the...
Dates:
1863 - 1879
Found in:
Manuscripts
Charles Waln Morgan Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-027
Abstract
This is a collection of correspondence, letterpress and letter copybooks, diaries, ship's outfitting books, invoice book, marine insurance policies, journals, ledgers, wastebooks, deeds, memorandum and petty cashbooks, and other account books, dealing mainly with Morgan's interests in management of whaling ships and contract with U.S. Treasury Dept. to supply whale oil to lighthouses.It also includes material on his investments in western lands such as Ohio and Michigan,...
Dates:
1796 - 1861
Found in:
Manuscripts
Charles White Watson Travel Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-179
Dates:
1841 - 1917
Found in:
Manuscripts
Chester Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-314
Abstract
Personal journal and seamanship information kept by Chester Smith (QM-3) aboard the S.S. CHEROKEE. The journal entries describe duties aboard ship and the seamanship notes reflect what was being taught to merchant seamen during the early 1900’s. Includes some sketches.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Found in:
Manuscripts
Claire L. Starr Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-330
Abstract
Personal correspondence and genealogical research of Claire L. Starr, a New London local historian and genealogist who was the daughter of fisherman Samuel A. Beebe, Jr., and granddaughter of Captain Samuel A. Beebe.
Dates:
1840 - 1977
Found in:
Manuscripts