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Gerald W. Mefferd Papers
This collection consists of volumes of diaries kept by Gerald W. Medderd before and during an around-the-world cruise with Ray Kauffman, a long time friend and owner of the ketch HURRICANE. It also contains photocopies of letters written to the family before and during the voyage, customs and consular documents, and a biographical sketch of Ray Kauffman.
Gilbert Billings collection
The collection is comprised of miscellaneous business papers relative to Gilbert Billing's shipping and real estate activity in southeastern Connecticut and Chenango County, N.Y.; and miscellaneous family correspondence, photographs, and documents. Also included are shipping records (1795-1798) relating to the brig REBECCA, ship TWO FRIENDS, and schooner ALLIGATOR (all of which he was master); and letters (1817-1839) from Coddington Billings.
Gurdon S. Allyn Collection
The papers contain bills, receipts, and accounts relative to Gurdon S. Allyn's shipowning, ice house, and fish processing interests, as well as other general business and domestic matters. Included are bills of sale for various vessels, property deeds, enrollment certificates for Schooners GAMECOCK and E. C. SCRANTON, and Articles of Agreement for Brig UXOR.
Henry Ashbey Collection
Collection of account books relating to the bark C.S. WILLIAMS and schooners ORIENT and FRANCES AMY, which Ashbey commanded; business letters; letters from Ashbey, in Apalachicola, Florida., written to his wife, Abby Jane; and other accounts and papers. Includes letters and affidavits (1856-1857) regarding unpaid notes of the Texas Republic to Henry Ashbey.
Henry Grinnell Letters
The collection is limited to an 11 year period, primarily to the years 1860-1871 and the Charles F. Hall polar expedition. Included are letters to Grinnell from C.F. Hall in New London, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C., regarding Arctic exploration and Hall's work in obtaining a Congressional appropriation for an expedition. Included also is a list of donations to the Hall Franklin expedition of 1860.
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.