Papers of John M. Cavarly, 1856-1960 (bulk 1856-1896).

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Papers of John M. Cavarly, 1856-1960 (bulk 1856-1896).

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The materials of the collection are arranged chronologically. There are ten pieces of correspondence, six of which relate to particular voyages and four are letters from John M. Cavalry to his daughter. The Scrapbook Pages are also filled with correspondence relating to Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The other scrapbooks contain clippings from newspapers regarding voyages, ships, and amusing anecdotes. The Bound Scrapbook used to be a ship's log and there are pages that are not covered in newspaper clippings. The photographs include one photograph of the John M. Cavarly, a photograph of the steamer "City of New York," and a photograph of her officers, including Captain Cavarly. The manuscript, Annie's captain, is a work of fiction about the lives of John M. Cavarly, his wife and their family based upon some of the materials in this collection and those held in the Kathryn Hulme Collection in Yale University Library. Subjects in the collection include: the CSA Florida; John Newland Maffitt; United States mail steamers; Pacific Mail Steamship Company; sailing anecdotes; ship captains and their spouses; steamboats and steamboat disasters; Steamboat lines to China; Steamboat lines of the Pacific Ocean; and United States Civil War naval operations.

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Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Pacific Mail Steamship Company

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The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was incorporated in 1848 to engage in the steamship business after receiving a contract from the U.S. government to provide mail service between Panama and the Oregon coast. The organizer and first president of the company was William H. Aspinwall. The company prospered, expanded its fleet, and began service to the Orient in 1867. By the mid-1880s they were sailing to 47 ports across the Pacific Ocean, including ports in Central America and Mexico. T...

Maffitt, John Newland, 1819-1886

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John Newland Maffitt (1819-1886) was a United States Navy officer, Confederate Navy officer, blockade runner, and author. Maffitt was born in Connecticut; grew up in Fayetteville, N.C.; and retired to Wilmington, N.C. From the description of John Newland Maffitt papers, 1833-1911, 1976. WorldCat record id: 24599972 John Newland Maffitt (1819-1886) was the son of Ann Carnic and the Reverend John Newland Maffitt, a Methodist minister. Young Maffitt lived in Connec...

Florida (Cruiser)

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The C.S.S. Florida was a Confederate steamer stationed near Mobile, Ala. From the guide to the Florida Log Book, ., 1862-1863, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Hulme, Kathryn, 1900-1981

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Kathryn Hulme (1900-1981) was the author of the bestseller The Nun's Story (1956) and seven other books, including The Wild Place (1952) and Undiscovered Country (1966), a memoir of her years as a pupil of Gurdjieff. From the description of Kathryn Hulme papers addition: correspondence with Brandt & Brandt, 1973-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702179148 From the description of Kathryn Hulme papers, 1846-1981 (bulk 1945-1981). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132854...

Cavarly, John M.

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John M. Cavarly was born in 1834, presumably in New London. His father had been crippled by a fall at sea, but that did not deter Cavarly from going to sea at the age of 14 on a packet ship bound for London in 1848. He made captain by 1859 and sailed clipper ships for private interests. On one such voyage in 1859 to Hawaii from New York, he met and married Annie Bolles, daughter of a well-to-do Hawaiian businessman. In 1863, he lost his ship, the Anglo Saxon, to the Confederate steamer, CSS Flor...