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Title page includes the heading "Yourin's Journall [sic]" and describes the volume as "the [t]raverse [b]ook of some of the [o]fficers on board the Charles." Folder 1

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There is also a journal and log headed "Toward the Northwest, April 1631." These are the original autographed journal and log of the 1631 expedition in search of the Northwest Passage by Captain Luke Fox. An edited version of the works appeared as volumes eighty-eight and eighty-nine of the Hakluyt Society. Folder 2

Description Folder 358 Transcript (DCI) [first page of multi-page typed document on brittle yellowed paper] January 1, 1932 [last digit punched out through paper and handwritten as a ‘2’] Mr. Will Richard, Taxidermist, Cody, Wyoming Dear Richard: I am delighted at the idea of your going on a trip around the world. That will be a grand adventure, and a rare privilege. I see by the paper that Mr....

Description Folder 358 Transcript (DCI) Will Richard. New York Jan 1st 1932Dear Richard, I am delighted at the idea of your going on a trip around the world; that will be a grand adventure, and a rare privilege. I see by the paper that Mr Vladima, successor to Alexander Dowey and head of the Zionists cult, who declares that the earth is flat, and has four corners - because the bible says so - is going on a trip around the world also;...

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The sailing schedule has a handwritten note indicating that Olaf Seltzer and his mother sailed from Copenhagen to New York on the steamship Island on June 21, 1892. Folder 1

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Hand-bound document written in French, entitled "Relation du Voyage faict en l'annee 1645 au Nom du Roy au pays des Algoumequins dans la Nouvelle France ou Canada, et de la manière de vivre des Sauvages" (Narrative of the Voyage made in the year 1645 in the Name of the King to the country of the Algonquins in New France or Canada, and the manner of living of the savages). Thirty pages in length, signed G.H. at the end of the document. Illustrated with five pen and ink drawings.

Description The excerpt was written by Phineas U. Blunt, a member of the Knickerbocker Exploring Company en route to the gold fields in California. The author spends a great deal of time discussing the trials and obstacles faced on the trail—including quicksand, lack of clean drinking water, sand flees, hail, and loss of livestock. The author details the different people groups he encountered during his travels; a variety of individuals from various states such as Arkansas, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, and...