Holograph manuscript journal, with corrections and revisions, illustrated with drawings and maps in watercolors and in pen and ink. Volume one describes Olmsted's experiences as a passenger on the whaler North America during a voyage from New London, Connecticut, to Honolulu. Volume two continues his account of his stay in Honolulu and describes his return voyage, with several missionaries, to New York on the cargo vessel Flora. Accompanying volume two are six additional sheets written in holograph. The journal, revised and with new illustrations, was published as Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton, 1841).
Alternative Title:
Incidents of a whaling voyage.
Description:
Title written as: Journal of a Voyage Around Cape Horn, 1840.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Flora (Barque : New York) and North America (Whaler : New London, Conn.)
Holograph manuscript journal, with corrections and revisions, illustrated with drawings and maps in watercolors and in pen and ink. Volume one describes Olmsted's experiences as a passenger on the whaler North America during a voyage from New London, Connecticut, to Honolulu. Volume two continues his account of his stay in Honolulu and describes his return voyage, with several missionaries, to New York on the cargo vessel Flora. Accompanying volume two are six additional sheets written in holograph. The journal, revised and with new illustrations, was published as Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (New York: D. Appleton, 1841).
Alternative Title:
Incidents of a whaling voyage.
Description:
Title written as: Journal of a Voyage Around Cape Horn, 1840.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Flora (Barque : New York) and North America (Whaler : New London, Conn.)
The journal records an 1849 trip from Missouri, beginning on the ship Highland Mary to old Fort Kearney, overland by the Platte and Sweetwater, Fort Bridger, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, the southern trail, Virgin River, Cajon Pass, and Sacramento. Hamelin also records an 1856 trip from Leavenworth to Fort Laramie where he became an agent for Majors, Russell Co., freighters. He made the return journey in 1857. There are notes on his stays in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and Fort Laramie. and Typed transcript completely digitized.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe., Hamelin had been in the Southwest as early as 1842 and in Santa Fé as an employee of James Aull., and Original boards.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Description and travel, Fort Laramie (Wyo.), Los Angeles (Calif.), and Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Highland Mary (Ship) and Russell, Majors and Waddell
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1849
Includes: "Triton"; reflections on 'Dhalgren'; On Imagination; "Delimitation and Scope"; personal reflections; "The Lady Caligala"; mathematical equations; reflections on Dhalgren; course planning. Also includes: color photographs of Marilyn Hacker.
Includes: "Politics of S-F"; "Notes to Robert Scholes"; draft relating to "Archei-aia"; fiction re: Ahkavid, Vinn, Quorena; "P/F" continued; "Thoughts on an S/F Opera"; list of 'Current Critical Projects'; "To Read the Dispossessed"; reflections on 'Dhalgren'; letter to Joanna Russ (?); "A Dull Novella of Academic Life or War and Peace"; "Delany's Space Opera".
Includes: "Eridani" continued; "Life Among the Blobs"; "Black Ulysses"; "An Experimental Guest of Honour Talk, or 'Metagoht'"; "Anti-Intellectualism in Science Fiction"; letters to "Tom", Susan Dwyer; letter from Marilyn Hacker (1977 January 14).