Rosario Curletti collection of A. M. Ebbets papers, 1824-1964.

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Rosario Curletti collection of A. M. Ebbets papers, 1824-1964.

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The collection consists of the 1849 sea voyage diary of Arthur Mercein Ebbets (121 pages) and supplementary material, including six letters by Charlotte White Penniman Ebbets, written during her 1853 voyage on the steamer Tennessee (which ran aground near San Francisco); 14 folders of biographical manuscripts about Arthur written by Charlotte Penniman Ebbets; other family manuscripts; and correspondence of Rosario Curletti regarding the diary and letters. Nineteen pages of pencil drawings by Arthur Ebbets, depicting scenes from his voyage, accompany the diary. Seven other early California and Panama manuscripts supplement the Ebbetts items, including four drafts of short stories or memoirs by K. V. Hastings ("A Visit to Acapulco," "A Day on Shipboard," and "From Panama to Aspinwall"), a copy of a long letter by Elizabeth Whitney Putnam detailing her journey west (she and her child sailed aboard the Tennessee and the Georgia on the same voyage as Lottie Ebbets), and Spanish and English versions of the diary of Pablo de la Portilla, a Mexican captain attached to Santa Barbara Presidio who led an unsuccessful 1824 expedition against a group of Chumash Indians who had rebelled against the San Buenaventura mission. The collection also originally included a photocopy of the Augustin W. Hale diary, the original of which the Huntington holds in the Hale papers. Hale also sailed to California on the Pacific in 1849, and he and Ebbets were apparently friendly. Details and references in the two collections overlap occasionally. The John Goodman papers at the Huntington also overlap with the Curletti papers, specifically in the folders discussing the ships Pacific and Tennessee. Rare book and print items donated along with the Curletti collection can be accessed by contacting the Rare Books Department.

70 pieces.2 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6812709

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Georgia (Steamer)

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Pacific (Ship : 1818-1855)

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Whaling vessel, out of Fairhaven, Mass., mastered by Rufus F. Pease, on voyage 17 Feb. 1851-17 May 1854 to the Western Islands, Middle Ground, Bering Sea, Arctic Ocean, Bay of Anadis, and Lawrence Bay whaling grounds; owner-agent: Reuben Fish; built at Scituate, Mass., 1818. From the description of Logbook, 1851 Feb. 17-1854 May 17. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70976209 Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Paul Chase. ...

Ebbets, Charlotte White Penniman, d. 1863.

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Oregon (Steamer.

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Putnam, Elizabeth Whitney, fl. 1853.

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Ebbets, A. M., (Arthur Mercein), 1830-1903.

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Rosario Andrea Curletti, in whose honor this collection was donated, was a respected Southern California anthropologist, genealogist, historian and book collector. Her main specialties were Santa Barbara history and the Chumash Indians. Miss Curletti began assembling this collection in the 1950s and died in 1986. Arthur Mercein Ebbets was born in New York on 18 January 1830 and came to San Francisco in 1849 at the age of 19, on the ship Pacific (built in 1843). While on ...

Curletti, Rosario Andrea, 1913-1986.

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Ebbets, Charlotte Penniman, fl. 1950.

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Tennessee (Steamer), 1848-1853.

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Hastings, K. V.

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Ebbets, Elizabeth Ann Stevenson, d. 1894.

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Portilla, Pablo de la, Captain, fl. 1819-1838.

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Tibbits, Hall J.

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Hale, Augustin W., 1814-1902.

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Augustin Ward Hale, born January 13, 1814, grew up in New Jersey and New York. In his early life Augustin worked with his father Elisha Hale, a businessman and inventor. In January 1849 Augustin left his wife Jennette, and daughter Agness, to sail for California on the brig Pacific. He was a member of a joint venture called the New England Mining and Trading Company (Mark Hopkins was also a member of the company, which was disbanded shortly after its arrival in California). The ship...