Letter from Capt. Crary B. Waite on Bark "Brewster"
Name/Title
Letter
Entry/Object ID
0000.8.27
Scope and Content
Letter to Messrs. Holmes (owner-agent) from Crary B. Waite (Captain of "Brewster", of Mattapoisett, Mass)
Collection
Mendell Research
Acquisition
Accession
0000.8
Acquisition Method
Gift
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Letter
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Correspondence
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
Bark "Brewster"
Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
Aug 30, 1857
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Holmes
Person or Organization
Waite
General Notes
Note
Notes: August 30, 1857
Mers j "Holmes" jr. & Bro. i am now at fi all [Fayal] i spose you wud like to have frome me on sum oil i am sorrey to rite you that i have not got no more to send home then i have if i had the same gou that i had last voige i thinke i shod had 30 bbls i had sum mist and sum kot of and sum run a way with thame that struck a large whale and wos was fast 7 ours and kot of at 9 oclock at nite and got a long side at 4 in the morning i worket the docke ol nite in a de cam thinking to se the whale him by byt no whale i have sene whales 8 times and lard 6 times and strucks and got 6 little wales it send that if it was not wane thig it was a nother but i am in hope to du better i have ship a new boat sten hear an sum men i have sent home draft frome florres the a mount $89.00 for fro vision ye have had a havy gale a round the ilens i was a 120 miles NNW i did me to crues but the blow was so harde i thote it no in thane has hen most all the ships ract more or les some lost thane mast most all lost those sales more or les i lost nothing lorn out all nite but it was harde gale tha say for the last 50 years i ex spect a letter frome you heare but non i shal be short of bread i ex spect a muy to make up 5 1/2 bbls a month i am wel an all the rest i belen i want one 16 teenth of the ship an no more i am not able to kake no more pleas rite i have fot an shone at fial 2106 gallons of sperme oil marke is B. brewster i don't no as yo kan read this. C. B. Waite
Status: OK
Status Date: 2015-07-07
