[SHIPWRECK MANUSCRIPT]. JEWETT, Fayette. "Journal of a Voyage from Boston to Smyrna in Bark Edisto Capt. Kendrick." 21 March-29 April 1853.

101 pages (52 leaves), octavo. Written in black ink on blue sheets. (Pale spots to a few leaves). Bound in red flexible covers; cloth folding case.

Dr. Fayette Jewett was one of several missionaries who sailed on the bark Edisto with his wife Mary Ann Jewett, who both had plans to take residence at Tocat with connection to an Armenian mission. He earned an academic degree at University of Vermont and his medical degree at Bowdoin College. He describes his goal for his journal to be a "record of my & our outward life while sailing o'er the Ocean Atlantic & the Sea Mediterranean...a sort of jotting down of various odds & ends partly for my own gratification...[and] for that of my friends" (p. 1). Throughout, he describes sea-sickness, storms at sea, and the bark's arrival at Smyrna. Once there, he describes the sights and animals in the town: "By the way, the Donkeys here are not Donkeys--but Jackasses (pronounced as if written 'Shack Ass' with the accent as in all words here of two syllables on the last" (p. 94).

The bark Edisto was built by Hayden & Cudworth of Medford Massachusetts in 1851, and was owned by Lombard & Hall of Boston. It was registered in Boston on 1 March 1853, and Mr. Nathaniel Kendrick was master and part owner. It was ultimately abandoned in a sinking condition on 12 December 1863 while sailing from Cette France, over a decade after Dr. Jewett penned his journal.

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[SHIPWRECK MANUSCRIPT]. JEWETT, Fayette. "Journal of a Voyage from Boston to Smyrna in Bark Edisto Capt. Kendrick." 21 March-29 April 1853.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Beyond a Cincinnati Legacy: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fleischmann III, Part II

[SHIPWRECK MANUSCRIPT]. JEWETT, Fayette. "Journal of a Voyage from Boston to Smyrna in Bark Edisto Capt. Kendrick." 21 March-29 April 1853.

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