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...

Abstract The collection contains Correspondence, vessel accounts, expense books, and bills. Of special interest are the legal papers (1904-1906), including lawyers' letters, libel papers, and published court transcript, relating to the adjudication of a collision at sea between the schooner WILLIAM BISBEE (commanded by Bernet) and the Anchor Line steamship FURNESSIA. Other vessels represented include schooners JAMES L. MALOY, HELVETIA, WAWENOCK, and J. FRANK SEAVEY, and barge BEAUFORT, all of which...