Transcript of journal

Description

Title: Transcript of journal
Creator: Meigs, Peveril, 1847-1921
Contributor: Meade, Richard W.--(Richard Worsam), 1837-1897
Saginaw (Steamer)
Published / Created: n.d.
Abstract: Travel diary of a voyage from New York to Alaska via San Francisco, 1868 October 24-1869 April 25. Meigs served as captain's clerk on an expedition to explore the newly-acquired territory on the U.S.S. Saginaw. The diary includes a daily account of the voyage and a list of addresses of shipmates, and recounts the destruction of a Kake (Tlingit) village on Kuiu Island, among other events. Accompanied by a transcript of the diary, a printed version of Hydrographic Notice No. 13, 1869, and two photographs: one of Peveril Meigs, 1869, and one of Richard Worsam Meade (captain of the U.S.S. Saginaw and Meigs's cousin), undated.
Description: Peveril Meigs (1847-1921), of Richmond, New York, and Santa Barbara, California.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Diaries--Alaska--19th century
Manuscripts
Typescripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Alaska--Description and travel
Alaska--Discovery and exploration
San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name): Meade, Richard W.--(Richard Worsam), 1837-1897
Saginaw (Steamer)
Subject (Topic): Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Kuiu Island

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Citation: Peveril Meigs, Travel Diary. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.