TY  - GEN
AU  - Calkin,Milo
AU  - Eckhart,George Boland
TI  - Milo Calkin papers,
KW  - Independence (Whaling ship)
KW  - Asthma
KW  - Shipwrecks
KW  - Kiribati
KW  - Starbuck Islands
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Whaling
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - South Pacific Ocean
KW  - Hawaii
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Nantucket (Mass.)
KW  - Rarotonga (Cook Islands)
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Librarians
KW  - Shipwrights
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm produced from originals in the Huntington Library; San Marino, Calif; California: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino
N2  - Photocopy and transcript of journal kept by Calkin as a carpenter aboard the whaling ship, Independence, on its voyage from Nantucket, Mass., to the South Pacific Ocean.  Calkin made the trip on the advice of his physician as a cure for asthma.  Includes description and sketches of whaling, shipwreck on Starbuck Island (Kirihati), subsequent boat trip to Rarotonga (Cook Islands) and Hawaii, Calkin's years in Hawaii as a clerk in a mercantile firm, and his return to the U.S. (1842).  Also includes an introduction to the journal written in 1953 by George Boland Eckhart, biographical information concerning Calkin, and a map (1952)
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