Abstract This is a collection of diaries, journals, letterpress copybooks, and logs, kept by Gray, his wife, and her father, Capt. Levi Hotchkiss, of Gloucester, Mass. It also includes logs kept by Hotchkiss on board the ships SHOOTING STAR, JOHN LUND and GRACE DARLING, engaged in the China, India, and South American trade; journals and diaries kept by Emma Gray, aboard the ship HARVARD (1855-1856) before her marriage and the steamer FIRE QUEEN, containing descriptions of China; and logs kept by...

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Correspondence, journals, account books, and miscellaneous notebook, kept by Hinckley, concerning his activities as master of brig REAPER and ships TARTER and CANTON, from Boston to ports in the Middle East, India and China.

Abstract This Collection includes Adeline Brown's diary, approximately 100 pages bound in a small 3-ring notebook provided for this particular cruise. In addition, she collected programs, brochures, travel schedules, menus, etc, given to the passengers during the trip. There is also a folder of clippings from various newspapers and other publications, probably compiled after the voyage, many of which mention the attractions and/or the various places she may have visited during her career with the...