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.

This collection contains correspondence, articles of agreement, accounts, crew account books, crew lists, bills, receipts, and other papers. The crew account books include divisions of the prize brigs FRIENDSHIP and CORNELIUS, the prize schooner COMET, and the prize sloops HIBERNIA and VENUS. Other persons represented include Giles Mumford, agent, of Groton, Conn.