Milo Calkin papers
Contributors: Eckhart, George Boland, 1897-
Language: eng
Subjects: Commerce; Asthma; Description and travel; Voyages and travels; Independence (Whaling ship); Shipwrecks; Whaling
Description: 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).
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Huntington Library. San Marino, Calif.

California: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino

Gift, George B. Eckhart, 1977-1978.

Businessman, librarian, and shipwright.

Collection material in English.