Abstract The Captain Robert P. Beebe Collection consists of correspondence from 1946 to 1988; design data consisting of notebooks, computer analyses, and correspondence with both owners and builders; drafts of published materials (Voyaging Under Power, 1975, magazine articles for Rudder, Yachting, and various other yachting publications); drafts of unpublished material (navigation book, Adventures in Small Craft Design); clippings from magazines and newspapers; technical data and product data; and...

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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.

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The Collection of Rosanna Duncan Sanderson contains the notes of her research into late-seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century shipping, drawn from various printed and manuscript sources along the U.S. eastern seacoast, and in Hawaii and Australia.

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This is a collection of correspondence primarily to James Barron, commander of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, from Mahlon Dickerson, James K. Paulding, John Rodgers, and Isaac Chauncey, regarding construction of the store ship RELIEF. The vessel was to be used for the exploring expedition commanded by Charles Wilkes. Included are letters to Charles Stewart, Barron's successor, and to John C. Jay.

Abstract The James W. Egleston Papers are composed exclusively of correspondence and are arranged chronologically. While the majority of the letters are written by James Egleston a.k.a. James Eggleston, Santiago Flores, and James Watson, to his family in Connecticut, the collection does include some letters written by his friends and children which are also addressed to the Connecticut Eglestons. Authors other than Egleston include; E. Squires (business acquaintance), Frederick Oscar Flores (son),...

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This collection contains 3 volumes, miscellaneous papers, a short transcription, a magazine article, and photocopies. One volume is a log for Olsen’s voyage on the GEORG STAGE, one volume is a log for Olsen’s voyage on the THETIS, and one volume holds the logs for his voyages on the WILLIAM P. FRYE, the SLESVIG, and the LORENA, and also includes sea chanties. The logs are written predominantly in Danish. A few passages, such as the sea chanties, are in English.

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Primarily composed of ships' papers and accounts during Haskell's employment in the China and opium trade. The collection also contains Haskell's correspondence with business associates such as his cousin Luke Baldwin Jr., personal correspondence with his wife Harriet, and final estate information.

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Papers, primarily correspondence, written to Ward from various business associates, discussing pricing and market conditions in New York, Rhode Island and the Islands. The collection contains especially notable correspondence regarding rising tensions between the United States and Britain. In 1806 one of Ward's ships, the JOHN JAY, was condemned in Bermuda by the British as "enemy property as the cargo of an illegal voyage." (Box 2/7)

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Collection, 1931-2001, consists of correspondence, business papers, published articles, photocopies of photographs and miscellaneous papers. The material in this collection complements the William Garden Collection (SP Coll. 96) in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library.