Name/Title
The Captain's Niece and the Sailor BoyEntry/Object ID
2018.232.001Scope and Content
Two journals of the third voyage of the tea-clipper Houqua to China, April to December 1846, Nathaniel B. Palmer, Master. The journal of Sarah Elizabeth Fanning of New York City and the journal of Thomas Benedict III of Norwalk, CT. Transcribed and annotated by Mary M. Thacher of Stonington.
Binder includes a DVD copy of Mary's talk on the Houqua for the Stonington Historical Society in 2005, slides of the people and places described in the journals, photographs and transcriptions. The table of contents reads as follows:
Route of the Houqua, ships seen, passengers and crew members
Personae: the extended family of Sarah Elizabeth Fanning, people met in the Far East and new York friends and acquaintances
Abstract of sights seen in China, described by Sarah Elizabeth Fanning
Illustrations
Reading list: books read on this voyage by Sarah Elizabeth Fanning
Foreward
The Houqua Journals, written in three notebooks, by Sarah Elizabeth Fanning
Postscript
Appendix: Letters about this trip (Sarah Fanning letter to Nancy Lord Palmer Stanton, Sarah Fanning letter to Joseph Warren Stanton, written at sea on return and Juliet P. Fanning letter to Mrs. Andrew E. Brown written in 1843 about Eliza Palmer's visit to China on the Paul Jones, Nathaniel B. Palmer, Master.Collection
Archives