The accession contains index cards originally stored in 10 small plastic boxes and 1 long cardboard box. The cards were created by Trevor Bebb and contain entries from various shipping registers. The cards describe vessels, captains, and sailors. The accession also contains two oversized ledgers from the nineteenth century and several manuscript sheets of poetry. One plastic box was empty when it entered the archives.
Series contains Jill Grant's records from the Joint Review Panel for the Whites Point Quarry and Marine Terminal Project. Materials include the project's environmental impact statement, transcripts from scoping meetings and public hearings, records of the Joint Review Panel, reference and research materials, correspondence, maps and photographs, and other records. The series provides a comprehensive record of the activities of the Joint Review Panel, which was made up by Jill Grant, Robert Fournier and Gunter Muecke.
Item consists of typed research notes about the Mary Celeste and the Dewis family, written by Robert Dewis, transcribed in 1950 by R.L. Dewis, and collected by Irving Deale. Dewis was the son of Joshua Dewis, owner of the Mary Celeste.
Item consists of a facsimile of handwritten research notes drafted in 1953 by R.L. Dewis (and collected by Irving Deale), about the early history of the Mary Celeste (then known as the Amazon).
Item consists of typed research notes collected by Irving Deale, and written by unknown persons likely in the 1960s, giving a brief outline on the history of the Mary Celeste.
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