Letterpress copybook, 1887-1904 (bulk 1902-1904).

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Bartlett, W. H. Letterpress copybook, 1887-1904 (bulk 1902-1904).

Letterpress copybook, 1887-1904 (bulk 1902-1904).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22540398

Outgoing letters and accounts primarily for voyages between mid-Atlantic ports of the United States and the West Indies. Addressees were mostly E.C. Thin, the Earn Line Steamship Company of Philadelphia, Pa., and also various companies and persons involved in trade and its support. Topics include cargoes (especially coal, sugar, and logwood), crews and their health and wages, supplies, ports of call, the coal supply in ports, equipment and maintenance, and statistics on the voyages. Ports of call included New York City, Philadelphia, Chester, Baltimore, Norfolk, and ports in Cuba, Panama, Martinique, St. Lucia, Bermuda, St. Thomas, Haiti, and Curaçao. Also includes limited correspondence, 1887-1893, of Capt. William G. Browne on the steamships Cairngorm and Tresco trading in Italy, Algeria, Turkey, Britain, and Texas.

1 v. (420 p.)

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