Smith, Cicely Fox, Writer and Poet, 1882-1954.
The collection consists of original manuscripts collected by C. Fox Smith, together with research material that she received from various correspondents, as well as a few articles and newspaper cuttings. It provides useful material for the study of sailing ships of the nineteenth century and includes some charts of eastern waters, published in the 1860s.
The original manuscripts include logs kept by Henry Ridley James as a midshipman with Green's Blackwall Line on the BLACKWALL, PRINCE OF WALES and MONARCH, 1851-1854. There are remark books and abstract logbooks kept by Frederick William Corner as mate and then master during voyages to Australia on the RODNEY and HESPERUS, 1887-1896. There are also logs kept by different mates on the CITY OF ADELAIDE during voyages across the Pacific, 1891-1901.
The autobiographical material provided by George Sorrell and Thomas Young provides a good general picture of life at sea towards the end of the nineteenth century. This is augmented by information given to C. Fox Smith by correspondents who often lent her copies of their logs and photographs. There are also letters relating to the restoration of HMS VICTORY, 1920 to 1929.
The original manuscripts include logs kept by Henry Ridley James as a midshipman with Green's Blackwall Line on the BLACKWALL, PRINCE OF WALES and MONARCH, 1851-1854. There are remark books and abstract logbooks kept by Frederick William Corner as mate and then master during voyages to Australia on the RODNEY and HESPERUS, 1887-1896. There are also logs kept by different mates on the CITY OF ADELAIDE during voyages across the Pacific, 1891-1901.
The autobiographical material provided by George Sorrell and Thomas Young provides a good general picture of life at sea towards the end of the nineteenth century. This is augmented by information given to C. Fox Smith by correspondents who often lent her copies of their logs and photographs. There are also letters relating to the restoration of HMS VICTORY, 1920 to 1929.