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The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
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The Captain's Best Mate : The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence On the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860
author
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Lawrence, Mary Chipman.; Garner, Stanton.
publisher
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University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin
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0874513669
print isbn13
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9780874513660
ebook isbn13
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9780585236599
language
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English
subject
Lawrence, Samuel, Whalers (Persons)--Massachusetts--Biography, Lawrence, Mary Chipman,--1827---Diaries, Whalers' spouses--Massachusetts--Diaries.
publication date
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1986
lcc
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SH20.L38L38 1986eb
ddc
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639/.28/0922
subject
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Lawrence, Samuel, Whalers (Persons)--Massachusetts--Biography, Lawrence, Mary Chipman,--1827---Diaries, Whalers' spouses--Massachusetts--Diaries.
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The Captain's Best Mate
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The Captain's Best Mate
The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence On The Whaler : Addision 18561860
Edited by Stanton Garner
University Press of New England Hanover and London
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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND publishes books under its own imprint and is the publisher for Brandeis University Press, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College Press, University of New Hampshire, Tufts University, and Wesleyan University Press.
University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
1966 by Brown University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5
Maps in this book were drawn by Sam H. Bryant, Marblehead, Massachusetts.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Lawrence, Mary Chipman, 1827 The captain's best mate. Includes index. 1. Lawrence, Samuel. 2. Whalers (Persons) MassachusettsBiography. 3. Lawrence, Mary Chipman, 1827 . 4. Whalers' wivesMassachusetts Biography. I. Garner, Stanton. II. Title. SH20.L38L38 1986 639'.28'0922 [B] 83-40018 ISBN 0-87451-366-9
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This edition is dedicated to FRANCIS FREEMAN JONES whose dignity, integrity, and irrepressible good humor keep alive the spirit of Mary Lawrence's New England
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Preface
Mary Chipman Lawrence wrote her journal during a three and one-half year whaling voyage, and it is in her narrative that this book's interest lies. However, in the Introduction, Epilogue, Appendixes, and Notes I have attempted to add as much circumstantial information about her experience as is practicable and relevant, for the purpose of placing this single whaling voyage in the larger context of the busy Pacific Ocean of the 1850's. For this information I am indebted to a number of sources besides such standard works as Alexander Starbuck's History of the American Whale Fishery.
The most remarkable and unexpected source is a rare tract by Mrs. Helen E. Brown, A Good Catch; or, Mrs. Emerson's Whaling-Cruise, published in Philadelphia in 1884 by the Presbyterian Board of Publication. This Christian tale was inspired by letters and a visit to Mrs. Lawrence from one of the Addison's crew many years after the Civil War, when the voyage itself was a dimming memory. The crewman was Edward Leighton, a runaway English boy from London, who had given his address in the Addison's shipping articles as St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Leighton credited the Lawrences with reconciling him with his family, claiming that the presence of the mother and daughter on the ship had set him once again to thinking of his loved ones at home. As a result, he had returned to England and made peace with his parents, and by the time of his visit to the Lawrences' Brooklyn home he had become a respected merchant ship officer. Mrs. Brown, a minor but prolific author of inspirational tracts with whom Mrs. Lawrence had become acquainted, was so captivated by the adventurous voyage and its evangelical outcome that, with some advice and guidance from Mrs. Lawrence, she constructed the plot of A Good Catch on the framework of the journal and the Leighton incident. It was perhaps inevitable that in the process the genuine, dependable Leighton, who had on more than one occasion during the voyage rendered indispensable
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services to Captain Lawrence, was transmuted into a ne'er-dowell lad named Aleck Fielding who, prior to his reclamation, was perpetually in trouble aboard ship and ashore. Many of the passages of the book are direct quotations from the journal; others seem to be based on Mary Lawrence's own recollections and are included in the Notes and Appendixes. A Good Catch was discovered almost by accident in the valuable Morse Whaling Collection of the Brown University Library.
A journal kept by George L. Bowman during the last cruise of the voyage has also been used to amplify Mrs. Lawrence's journal. Bowman, a native of Falmouth, had by coincidence sailed from Fairhaven as a boatsteerer aboard the Sharon on the day of the Addison's departure from New Bedford, across the Acushnet River. Captain Lawrence shipped him for a cruise and home during the Addison's last stop at the Sandwich Islands, promoting him to third mate in the process (apparently as a favor, since he could then sign on his next whaler as an officer). His journal (and another journal he kept aboard the Sharon) is now in the Nicholson Whaling Collection of the Providence (Rhode Island) Public Library.
Mrs. Lawrence's journal was written on the tall blue pages (8 by 13 5/16 inches) of two otherwise blank books of the sturdy type used for whaling logs. Writing in a neat but compact hand, with the elaborate capital letters of her era, she filled 160 pages of the first volume and 60 pages of the second. She was an educated, naturally gifted stylist. It has therefore seemed appropriate to normalize her few departures from modern usage in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation (but not in grammar) and to correct silently her rare slips of the pen. These principles have also been followed in transcribing all other manuscript materials which appear in the Appendixes and Notes. However, modern equivalents have not been substituted for archaic geographical terms. (See the Glossary of Obscure Geographical Terms, Appendix F.)
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