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COLLECTION Identifier: F 6870.1-F 6872.6

Daniel B. Fearing logbook collection

Overview

Logbooks of whaling voyages, primarily from New Bedford and Fair Haven, Massachusetts, collected by Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, Rhode Island.

Dates

  • Creation: 1816-1882

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.



Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

3.15 linear feet (44 volumes)

The collection is composed chiefly of manuscript logbooks of whaling voyages, principally from New Bedford and Fair Haven, Massachusetts, to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and Australia. Also includes notes on whaling grounds, journals, account books, lists of provisions, sketches, and shipping accounts of William Rotch.

Biographical / Historical

Fearing was a book collector from Newport, Rhode Island.

Physical Location

pf, f, gen

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Daniel B. Fearing; received: 1915.

Existence and Location of Copies

Logbooks of the Acushnet, Archer, Awashonks, Canton, Charles Drew, General Scott, Leonidas, Linda Stewart, Maria, Niger, Ohio, Orozimbo, Pacific, Robert Edwards, Stafford, and an unidentified whaler are available on microfilm (5 reels, 35mm) on reels 733-737 of the microfilm collection American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific published by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau of Australian National University.

Processing Information

This collection has not been fully cataloged. The following listing is quite brief and has been noted by readers to be inaccurate occasionally.

Title
Fearing, Daniel B. (Daniel Butler), 1859-1918, collector. Daniel B. Fearing logbook collection, 1816-1882: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
eng
EAD ID
hou01633

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

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