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- Creator:
- Meigs, Peveril, 1847-1921
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2718
- Collection Title:
- Travel diary
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 77
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Meade, Richard W.--(Richard Worsam), 1837-1897 and Saginaw (Steamer)
- Subject (Topic):
- Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Kuiu Island
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Transcript of journal
