Binder, 56 pages, some double sided, containing 1883 receipt for pine lumber for the Schooner Lottie Beard at St. Helena, 1852 receipt for 4 gallons of sperm oil from W. A. Robinson & Co, South Water St, receipt for oil from W. Wood & Co. Oils, Boston, 1897. A letter to Colonel Samuel Walcott, East Windsor, CT, talking about the bark Richard Henry of Rochester on a whaling voyage 1839-1840. It returned with 300 barrels of sperm oil and the body of Captain Ellis, who was killed by a whale on July 24, 1840. An interesting letter written by Phillip T. Purrington in the 1970’s talking about the black whaleman Peter A. Almy who was on the whaleship Barklay in 1811. He was captured by the British while serving in the War of 1812. Whale tobacco cards and trade cards, a letter dated 1787 to John Hammett of Rochester from his son , a marine at Newport, a CT man’s testimony about a shipwreck in 1856 of the bark Cabasa, 1890 letter from William J. Rotch to Obed Nickerson with hotel advertising cover discussing a fog-bound steamboat trip to NYC and how some passengers made it ashore on Long Island by dory. Herring Run photo and postcard, a Marion letter to Charles Almy, Esquire concerning the delivery of the schooner S. B. James to Mr. Guilford H. Hathaway, dated Nov. 29, 1861, Steamship postcards, report card from Naval Academy for Marion resident D. S. Gurney, 1917, book titled Simplified Celestial Navigation by Weems and Link, 1940.
