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The voyage of the Jamestown on her errand of mercy .
Title
The voyage of the Jamestown on her errand of mercy .
Publication
Boston : Eastburn's Press, 1847.
Physical Description
ix, [2], 8-27, [3], cliv pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original printed paper wrappers.
Notes
Note to introduction signed: R.B. Forbes.
Miss Edgeworth's note: p. [viii]-ix, first sequence.
With errata slip.
Summary
An account of the preparations for and the actual voyage of the U.S.S. Jamestown in March, 1847, that was carrying relief provisions collected from Boston and other New England merchants for the famine-stricken residents of Ireland. Robert Bennet Forbes was appointed by the New England Committee for the Relief of Ireland and Scotland to command this relief mission, and he lent the U.S.S. Jamestown for that purpose.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Lithographs - Hand-colored - 1847.
Also listed under
Eastburn's Press, publisher.
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