Correspondence, photographs, and artifacts relating to Henry Harris Brown and the logbook of the Plover

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 155-02

Staff Only

Dates

1859-1934

Creator

Brown, Lloyd A. (Lloyd Arnold), 1907-1966 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Henry Harris Brown served aboard the Plover on its 1858-1862 whaling voyage out of New Bedford. In his letter to Mary Susan Wilbur he discusses life aboard ship, taking a whale and cutting in, and time spent in Mauritius as well as reminiscing about Providence.

The photographs in the collection depict Henry Brown and Mary Susan Wilbur as well as John Thurston Brown

Extent

4 folders (Four folders and one oversize box) : Two typed letters, two manuscript letters (8 pages, 1 page), two tintypes, two photo cards, one scrimshaw swift

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection is organized into four folders: 1) Photographs, 2) correspondence between Lloyd Arnold Brown and Paul Coe Nicholson, 3) letter from Henry Harris Brown to Mary Susan Wilbur, 4) lettr from Charles E. Brown to Henry Harris Brown.