Box FP-1-FP-3
Contains 4 Results:
Journal of voyage from Boston to Cronstadt and return, kept by John Heard when he was 14 years old, 1839
Diaries kept by John Heard, 1839-1866, describe voyages from Boston to Havana, Cuba and Cronstadt, Trinidad and Tobago, life in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and aboard a trading voyage up the Yangtze River. Also included is a typewritten copy of an autobiography written by John Heard in 1891.
Journal of voyage (his first) from Boston to Havana, 1839
Diaries kept by John Heard, 1839-1866, describe voyages from Boston to Havana, Cuba and Cronstadt, Trinidad and Tobago, life in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and aboard a trading voyage up the Yangtze River. Also included is a typewritten copy of an autobiography written by John Heard in 1891.
Left Hong Kong for Singapore, back to Hong Kong, traveled to Singapore, Calcutta, Galle, Arden, Red Sea, Suez, Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Liverpool, Ipswich, London, Paris, Lucern, Geneva, Frankfort, Leipzig, Vienna, Venice, Rome, Naples, Boston, Liverpool, Geneva, Paris, Ipswich, Fontainebleau, Paris, back to Hong Kong. Trip to Japan in July, 1859, description of the country, women's costumes, etc.; back in Shanghai in Sept., 1860; 1849-1860
Diaries kept by John Heard, 1839-1866, describe voyages from Boston to Havana, Cuba and Cronstadt, Trinidad and Tobago, life in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and aboard a trading voyage up the Yangtze River. Also included is a typewritten copy of an autobiography written by John Heard in 1891.
A trading trip up the Yangtze: Left Hong Kong in the Fire Dart to Shanghai and up Yangtze, fine description of the country; found City of Chin Kiangfoo utterly destroyed by the Rebels; Nanking deserted. He writes of trading: "the wretches won't buy;" hard to make sales because the people have not come back, for fear of the Rebels; they took goods in barter... Snowstorm at Shanghai on 30 Jan. 1862 (Chinese New Year) lasted 58 hours; snow 30 to 36 inches deep. Estimates of costs of steamers, 1861-1866
Diaries kept by John Heard, 1839-1866, describe voyages from Boston to Havana, Cuba and Cronstadt, Trinidad and Tobago, life in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and aboard a trading voyage up the Yangtze River. Also included is a typewritten copy of an autobiography written by John Heard in 1891.