Reading list: Books aboard the Hopewell, 1849-1850
The Hopewell of Warren, R.I., was a ship on a Gold Rush voyage to San Francisco. George Littlefield, the ship-master, recorded what books he read on the journey. See a scan of his log from the Providence Public Library Special Collections: http://pplspc.org/nicholson/rj5_nicholson_333/html/rj5_nicholson_333r-0939.html