2 1/2 page handwritten letter 8″ by 10″, signed by Goddard London, dated November 9, 1849. Lemuel Goddard was an American sperm oil merchant in England and a partner to New Bedford shipowners Swift and Allen who owned the Bark Paulina. The letter discusses the excellence of the Greener guns, the price of whale oil and bone. The letter also addresses the use of harpoon guns on an 1849 New Bedford whaling voyage with captain, John Thatch to the Indian Ocean. The letter contains a blue hand stamp. It also contains a 1790 booklet 11 pages related to Charles Moore’s English harpoon gun.
Lemuel Goddard Handwritten Letter Discussing Greener Guns and Whaling Voyage, November 9, 1849.
