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440868
  • Title
    Whaling logbooks and other documents, 1829-1856
  • Call number
    PMB 767B
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date
    Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    440868
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : PMB 767B
  • Physical Description
    microfilm reel 35 mm
  • Scope and Content
    Contains journals and correspondence as follows: journal of Captain Winthrop Sears on the Ocean Pearl containing an excellent account of shipboard life, relations between the passengers, good descriptions of ports visited and life in Hawaii and a smoking volcano in the Mariana Islands; letterbook of Henry Tufts; correspondence from father re ships and shipping, 1845-1846; Alfred Tufts, letters to mother, 1854-1855; George Tufts, letters to mother, 1855; Journal of Captain Wm. Whitton on the Rodman, 1859-1863 and journal of the Plant, 1829-1831
  • General note
    PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 767B
    Filmed for the New England Microfilming Project
    Available for reference
    Microfilm copy of originals held by Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston MA
    No part of the contents of this microfilm may be reproduced in any way without the written permission of the holding institution
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