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
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