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Alfred Robinson logbook and diary. Volume 2.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Alfred, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brookline (Ship).
- Commerce.
- Families.
- Finance.
- Hides and skins.
- Play.
- Seafaring life.
- Shipping.
- Ships.
- California.
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Logbooks
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1829-1840.
- Summary:
- The second volume of Robinson's log book, containing a brief record of his activities at Monterey and along the Southern Californian coast. There are copies of business letters from Robinson, chiefly to Bryant, Sturgis and Company, and this volume includes miscellaneous notes concerning births in the family (1837-1838) and a short a play titled 'The doctor' in another writer's hand. Both this and the first volume contain pencil and watercolor sketches, of land and seascapes, and of a ship, possibly the Brookline.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MS Vault 49
- Originally from Massachusetts, Robinson went to California in 1829 as the representative of the hide-trading and shipping firm Bryant, Sturgis and Company.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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