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Macedonian logbooks

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Request in advance	MssCol 3063	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Description

.29 linear foot (1 volume)

Summary

These three logbooks were kept on board the U.S.S. Macedonian during a trip from New York to Japan between February 1853 and May 1855. Two were kept by John R. C. Lewis and the third was kept by Lawrence F. Lewis. The Macedonian was one of the ships which joined Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition and accompanied him on his second visit to Japan. John R. C. Lewis' volumes include journal entries which describe numerous places passed on the voyage including the Azores, Canary Islands, Island of St. Helena, Hong Kong, Canton, Formosa, Bonin Islands, Japan, Samoda, Whampoa, and Manila. Lewis also provides an account of Commodore Perry's landing in Japan and of the Japanese Head Commissioner's visit to Perry, as well as a fight between the Rebel party and Mandarin party of China in Whampoa Reach. His logbooks also include a few sketches of some of the ships in the expedition and some of the harbors, as well as a sketch of Perry's landing.
Lawrence F. Lewis' logbook was kept on board the same ship, during the same voyage.

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Genre/Form

Ships' logs.

Call Number

MssCol 3063

OCLC

733074072

Author

Macedonian (Sloop of war : 1852-1875)

Title

Macedonian logbooks, 1853-1855.

Added Author

Lewis, John Redman Coxe, 1834-1898.

Lewis, Lawrence F.

Research Call Number

MssCol 3063