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Eliab Grimes correspondence and order book for the brig Owhyhee, 1820-1846, bulk 1820-1827.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grimes, Eliab, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce.
- Commercial products.
- Logbooks.
- Merchants.
- Seafaring life.
- Ship captains.
- Shipping.
- Ships.
- Voyages and travels.
- California--Sacramento.
- California--San Francisco.
- Hawaii.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Pacific Northwest.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1820-1846.
- Summary:
- Letters (1820-1827) to Grimes while he was master of the brig Owhyhee, mostly from the owners, Josiah Marshall and Dixey Wildes, in Boston; and an order book (1823-1824). Letters concern Grimes' business aboard the Owhyhee on its trading voyages between the Sandwich Islands, California and elsewhere along the Northwest Coast, and China. Also includes a letter from the artist E M Kirn, dated 17 November 1846, written to Grimes in Yerba Buena (an early name for San Francisco), placing an order for merchandise; and an undated letter to Grimes' brother, Nathan Grimes, from Thaddeus Reed.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MS Vault 85
- Grimes was a merchant and sea captain. On cover of order book: Brig Owyhee [sic].Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the California Historical Society's North Baker Research Library catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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