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Title: Thomas Stephens Collier Diary,
Date (inclusive): 1868-1869
Collection Number: Wyles SC 58
Creator:
Collier, Thomas Stephens
Extent:
.1 linear feet
(1 folder)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Thomas Stephens Collier Diary. Wyles SC 58. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 1973.
Scope and Content of Collection
Shipboard diary, 1868-1869, of Thomas Stephens Collier (1842-1893), boatswain on the 'Shenandoah' from July 1868 to April
1869, and previously on the 'U.S.S. Oneida,' May 1867-July 1868. Photograph of Collier glued in the diary, with caption "[U.]
S.S. Monocacy, Yokohama, Japan, Feb. 2, 1868." Contains a blend of poems, philosophical ruminations, and diary entries re
conditions on board the Shenandoah and of places visited . Most of the diary describes the trip back from the Pacific, the
ports visited including Yokohama, Nagasaki, Hong Kong, Batavia (Java), Cape Town, and Jamestown (St. Helena). One of the last
entries, after having been at sea some time, is "An Ode to Cockroaches."