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32.
- Creator:
- Haskins, Ralph, 1779-1852
- Published / Created:
- 1791 May 11-12, 1798 December 6, and 1814 March-1815 February
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-126
- Collection Title:
- Voyage from Boston : to the north west coast of America, 1800-1820 / by Ralph Haskins
- Image Count:
- 85
- Alternative Title:
- Journal of a voyage from London to Madeira, in the ship John Adams of Boston, James James, Commander - kept by James Elburn mate and Navigation began 6th December 1798
- Description:
- Imperfect: several pages between p. 4-5 of first section have been removed., In three sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately by the cataloger., and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Boston (Mass.) --1810-1820 and Massachusetts
- Subject (Name):
- Haskins, Ralph, 1779-1852
- Subject (Topic):
- Seafaring life and Voyages and travels --History --19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Haskin’s Journal, 1814-1815
33.
- Creator:
- Sánchez, Francisco Miguel, Fray
- Published / Created:
- 1789-1790
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 415
- Image Count:
- 92
- Abstract:
- The manuscript describes an 1789 Spanish expedition to the Northwest coast to determine the extent of Russian settlement and trade, as well as the activities of other nations in the region. Meetings with captains James Colnett, Robet Gray, William Douglas, and John Kendrick, and the seizure of the British ships Argonaut and Princess Royal, and the Portuguese ship Iphigenia, are recorded. The work also includes a vocabulary of the Nootka language and a description of the Nookta region and Indians.
- Description:
- Blanks not digitized., Contemporary copy., Fray Francisco Miguel Sánchez, a Franciscan from the College of San Fernado at San Blas, accompanied an 1789 expedition to Nootka Sound to establish a mission., Moused, with some loss of text., and The manuscript formerly belonged to Jose M. Linga. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nootka Sound (B.C.)--Description and travel and Northwest Coast of North America--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Douglas, William,--fl. 1789, Espi, José,--Fray, Flóres, Manuel Antonio de, Gray, Robert,--1755-1806, Kendrick, John,--ca. 1740-1794, Lopez de Haro, Gonzalo, Martínez, Esteban José,--1742-1798, Patero, Severo,--Fray, Sánchez, Francisco Miguel,--Fray, and Sosies, Lorenzo,--Fray
- Subject (Topic):
- Nootka Indians and Nootka language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historio Compuesta : de todo lo acaesido en la expediccion hecha al Puerto de Nuca año de 1789 / by Fray Francisco Sánchez, copied in another hand, 1790.
34.
- Published / Created:
- 1690 January - 1691 April
- Call Number:
- Osborn b66
- Image Count:
- 18
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a diary documenting the author's travels and social activities in England and Holland, naming the aquaintances with whom he visited and dined. In England, he "dined at Chelsea with Lady Percivales sisters, children, etc. At 5, went to the Play." In Antwerp, he notes churches, organs, and collections of paintings and miniatures; in Brussels, he played tennis, attended a harpsichord performance, fenced, and went to see his friend's "best horses."
- Description:
- For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Pages 34-57 blank, not digitized., and Phillipps MS 9966, no. 172.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Social life and customs, Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century, and Netherlands--Description and travel
- Subject (Topic):
- Diaries, Gentry--Conduct of life, Leisure, and Nobility--England
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Holland voyage, 1690 Jan - 1691 Apr.
35.
- Published / Created:
- 1860
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 393
- Collection Title:
- William Franklin Raynolds papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | Folder 12
- Image Count:
- 12
- Description:
- Several pages blank throughout; otherwise digitized in entirety.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Indian sign language
36.
- Creator:
- Crawford, James M. Pocket diary
White, John G., b. 1830 - Published / Created:
- 1863 January 1-December 31
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1780 W584
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Diary, 1863 Jan 1-Dec 31, contains brief entries describing White's service as a corporal in the 20th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, beginning after the 20th Regiment's participation in the Battle of Prairie Grove in 1862 Dec. White went to Patch Grove on recruiting service, Jan-Apr, and then returned to Camp Lake Spring, at Rolla Missouri. His regiment went to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in June, and he describes the siege and surrender of the city and subsequent movements of his regiment in Mississippi and Louisiana. In October his regiment went by steamer from New Orleans to Texas, remaining at Fort Brown near Brownsville through December. Entries are followed by his thoughts on his experiences in 1863, a list of soldiers with companies and tent numbers, and brief accounts and notes. This diary is written in a printed pocket diary published by James M. Crawford, Saint Louis, Missouri. and Part of: Two holograph manuscript pocket diaries kept by John G. White while living in rural Wisconsin and during his service in the United States Army in the Civil War. The first diary, 1859 Nov 25-1860 May [19], contains brief entries in which White describes farm work and social life in Mount Hope and Patch Grove, Grant County, Wisconsin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Grant County (Wis.)--Social life and customs, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Vicksburg (Miss.)--Personal narratives, and West (U.S.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
- Subject (Name):
- United States.--Army.--Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865) and White, John G.,--b. 1830
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > John G. White diaries, 1859-1863
37.
- Published / Created:
- [1918-1919]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 51
- Collection Title:
- George Henry Hefflon papers
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 20
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Diary/1918 Jun-1919 Jul.
- Publisher:
- n.p
- Collection Created:
- 1899-1924
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Joseph H. Hefflon Pneumonia Victim. Brother of Local Clergyman, Y.M.C.A Worker, Dead in France
38.
- Creator:
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 11 Box 8
- Image Count:
- 43
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Madame du Deffand's diary, written in the hand of Jean-Francois Wiart, she having lost her sight in 1754, for the last months from July 1779 to September 1780 in which she records details of her dinner engagements with her circle of friends, the entries ending less than two weeks before her death on September 23. She also makes note of who she has corresponded with that day and records details of interest to her about 01the news contained in the letters she receives or events of the day
- Description:
- Marie Anne de Vichy Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697-1780), was married at 21 to her kinsman, Jean Baptiste de la Lande, marquis du Deffand. The marriage resulted in a separation as early as 1722. However, her intelligence, cynicism, and wit gained her such friends as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Fontenelle and Madame de Staal-Delaunay, the president Henault, and D'Alembert. The principal friendships of her later years were with the duchesse de Choiseul and with Horace Walpole. She died on September 23, 1780, leaving her papers to Walpole., In French., Title from cover., Final 206 pages blank. Bound in green vellum., and Formerly classed as: 49 2545 II.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780.
- Subject (Topic):
- Women, Conduct of life, Authors, French, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Journal de Madame du Deffand, 1779 July 1-1780 September 10.
39.
- Creator:
- Hincks, John, 1788-1842
- Call Number:
- Osborn d408
- Container / Volume:
- Volume 1
- Image Count:
- 98
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Holograph journal in two versions (original and fair copy) of a tour from London to Naples and return via Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries made by the Hincks brothers between March 29th and December 8th, 1823, The brothers spent extended periods in Naples, Rome, Florence and Vienna; the journal records their sightseeing, their opinions of works of art and architecture, and the daily events of travel. Supplied with an introduction to William Richard Hamilton, the English ambassador and antiquary, they remained in Naples for three weeks, attending concerts, balls, and conversazioni, exploring the local antiquities, and climbing Vesuvius, Following their departure from Naples they spent a month in Rome, visiting museums, galleries, and the studios of Canova and Thorvaldsen; returned to Florence, where they met William Etty copying a Titian at the Uffizi; marveled at the new Simplon Road into Switzerland; and returned to England via Vienna and the Low Countries, Original annotated on front pastedown with title and note: "note upon the above (made on the day below written) Given to me by me (sic) dearest brother John Hincks, now no more.' T. C. Hincks, August 12, 1844.", Fair copy contains tipped-in portrait engraving of Francis Joseph Charles, Duc de Reichstadt, and laid-in advertising card for the hotel of Pooters and Decoster, Amsterdam, and With: 5 autograph letters, signed, to John Hincks from Thomas Hincks; 2 autograph letters, signed, to John Hincks from John Finkett-Maddock; autograph letters, signed, to Hincks from Rector R. Massin; notes, printed ephemera related to later members of the Hincks family; and a manuscript copy of "the Order of Sessions Made the 11th day of Jan.y 1827."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe., Alps, France, Ital, Naples (Italy), Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
- Subject (Name):
- Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Etty, William, 1787-1849., Hamilton, William, 1777-1859., Hincks, John, 1788-1842., Hincks, Thomas Cowper, 1788-1865., and Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1777-1844.
- Subject (Topic):
- Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Tourists, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of a tour on the continent of Europe made in 1823 by Thomas Cowper Hincks and John Hincks and written by John Hincks, 1823
40.
- Creator:
- Furgerson, Samuel
- Published / Created:
- 1809-1811
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 207
- Image Count:
- 104
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Map digitized at high resolution.
- Description:
- A daily journal of the voyage of the brig Otter, commanded by Samuel Hill from Boston to the Alaskan coast by way of the Sandwich Islands. Samuel Furgerson describes places visited, natives, and trade with the Indians, particularly along the Alaskan coast and Queen Charlotte Islands. The last entry comes from Thanikyloo Bay. The map, which is in color, shows the path of the brig Otter along the Northwest Coast of America., Gift of William Robertson Coe., Original binding., and Samuel Furgerson: ship's carpenter on trading voyage to the Pacific Northwest.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hawaii--Description and travel, Northwest Coast of North America--Maps, Northwest, Pacific--Maps, Pacific Coast (Alaska)--Description and travel, Pacific Coast (B.C.)--Description and travel, and Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.)--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Hill, Samuel and Otter (Brig)
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America--Alaska, Indians of North America--British Columbia, Seafaring life, Seamen--United States, and Voyages and travels--History--19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of a voyage from Boston to the North-West Coast of America
