Whaling Letter from Henry White to Parents, dated November 3, 1861
date: label: Date made
content: 1861
notes: label: Description
content: Letter 7, dated November 3, 1861, Honolulu
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content: Brief, oblique ref. to Civil War. W.G.E Pope, the ship's principal owner, failed. This voyage=2600 bbl whale oil, 200 bbl sperm. Calculates his net lay (share) for 19 months is $100. "When I come to take a retrospective view and think that I have been working like a dog and poorly clad for 19 months I do feel a little down hearted." Capt a Portugee and a liar. Personal philosophy on why war is being fought. "if they would just investigate affairs aboard of whale ships they (the Northerners) would go in for slavery as stout as the southerners. The whole fact of the matter is that a negro is no man and slavery is to good for them. Out here I can see what a free negro is." News of home.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Whalers
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Family & Social Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hazel H. and Kathryn J. White
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0102.07
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content: 2005.0102.07
label: accession number
content: 2005.0102
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letter
label: Object Name
content: whaling letter