Volume 1
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Joseph Wilson diary
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/064
Scope and Contents
Volume documenting Joseph Wilson’s voyage on U.S.S. Vandalia from Portsmouth, N.H., to Marquesas
with abstract of log of entire voyage, 18571859;
includes manuscript on naval hygiene, 1860; and
fragmentary diary of voyage on U.S.S. Powhatan from Philadelphia to Mobile, Ala., 18601861.
Diary from
Vandalia (pp. 195)
describes Wilson’s arrival in Portsmouth, N.H., on 2 Nov. 1857, embarkation on 1
Dec., then voyage south to Rio de Janeiro, through Straits of Magellan, north to Lima and Panama,...
Dates:
1857 - 1861