Eight journals made by Green during voyages overseas on passenger liners, and sailing expeditions around the British coast, 1871-1878. The passenger vessels featured in the collection include the CHILDERS, CARLISLE CASTLE, VICEROY, CASPIAN, SALMATIAN and GERMANIC. The journals include illustrations of scenes on board vessels and notes on sea birds. One of them records his marriage to Ellen Penn and honeymoon to Paris and the Alps in 1877. There are two printed items: A copy of Green's book 'Ocean Birds', published by R.H. Porter, London, 1887. An annotated copy of 'Chronicles of Blackwall Yard Part 1' by Henry Green and Robert Wigram, published by Whitehead, Morris and Lowe, London, 1881. Please contact archive staff for more information about ordering from this collection.

Administrative / biographical background
Joseph Fletcher Green was the second son of Frederick Green (1814-1876) of the Blackwall shipbuilding family and his wife Elizabeth (nee Fletcher) of Stepney (1813-1870). He was educated at Rugby School and during his youth excelled in sports, being selected to play rugby for England and cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club. He married Ellen, daughter of the marine engine engineer John Penn (1805-1878) of Blackheath, at St Margaret's church at Lee, on 1 August 1877. At the same service, Frederick Stokes, the solicitor and former England rugby captain, married Ellen's sister Isabella. It is presumed that Joseph Fletcher Green and his elder brother Sir Frederick Green were both involved in F. Green & Co., the passenger and cargo-managing arm of the Green family enterprise, later subsumed in the Orient Steam Navigation Co.