Fictional stories collection, 1827-1966.

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Fictional stories collection, 1827-1966.

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Short stories (some published), many written by residents of Nantucket, Mass., chiefly relating to whaling and Nantucket; together with press releases, invitations, and accompanying materials. Also includes two typed copies of Obed Gardner's Will (by Underhill), with TLS (1936 Apr. 11) from William Hubbell to Charles E. Congdon, president of Nantucket Historical Association; Uncle Sim's Clairvoyance (photocopied from The Youth's Companion, 1893 Dec. 21), by Sarah Winter Kellogg; Nantucket Jack (New Haven Union, n.y., Jan. 5), by an anonymous author; A "Foggy Yarn" About a Nantucket Whaleship (photocopied from the Hampton Chronicle, 1968 Nov. 21), by Toni Stevens; The Letters from the Captain's Wife, facsimiles (1966 June), created by the U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries; and The Blubber Hunters (Harpers Monthly, 1906 Apr. and May), by Clifford Warren Ashley.

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Rickert, Edith, 1871-1938

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Writer. Professor of English, University of Chicago, 1924-1935. From the description of Papers, 1896-1921. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247685 Epithet: Dr Chaucerian scholar at Chicago University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000166 Edith Rickert was born in Canal Dover, Ohio, in 1871. She received an A.B. from Vassar College in 1891 and a P...

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Whitten, Paul F.

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Kellogg, Sarah Winter

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Brooks, Josephine Smith

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Congdon, Charles E.

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Sharp, Benjamin, 1858-1915

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Benjamin Sharp, Jr., zoologist and explorer. Received his A.B., 1878 from Swarthmore College, M.D., 1879 and Ph.D., 1880 from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D., 1883 from the University of Wurtzburg, Bavaria. Professor of Invertebrate Zoology at the Academy of Natural Science, 1883-1915 and at the University of Pennsylvania, 1884-1888. Expeditions to: Caribbee Islands, 1888-1889; Hawaiian Islands, 1893; Arctic, 1895; Alaska, Siberia, and Arctic, 1895. Representative for Nantucket to the ...

Phillips, Barnet, 1876-1942

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Merrifield, Richard.

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Stevens, Toni

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United States. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries

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Gardner, Obed.

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Earle, James A. M.

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Hubbell, William Wheeler, 1821-1902

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