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Title: Hiller Family Papers
Dates: 1851-1960s
Collection number: Mss 273
Collection Size:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Typescript carbon of “A Leaf from My Experiences in Siberia – and How I Got There,” by Henry W. Hiller, describing his life
1851-1861 as cabin boy aboard the whaler “Maria Theresa,” the Crimean War, and trip to Siberia and back. Also, typescript
translation of his wife’s “Letters of Liuboff M. Hiller: Translated from Russian to English,” mainly letters to her from family
and friends, most from Russia, 1861-1914. Both volumes apparently transcribed, typed, and some footnotes added by unknown
party in the 1960s.
Physical location: Vault.
Languages:
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.
Hiller Family Papers. Mss 273. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of Margaret Mallory, 1984.
Scope and Content of Collection
Typescript carbon of “A Leaf from My Experiences in Siberia – and How I Got There,” by Henry W. Hiller, describing his life
1851-1861 as cabin boy aboard the whaler “Maria Theresa,” the Crimean War, and trip to Siberia and back. Also, typescript
translation of his wife’s “Letters of Liuboff M. Hiller: Translated from Russian to English,” mainly letters to her from family
and friends, most from Russia, 1861-1914. Both volumes apparently transcribed, typed, and some footnotes added by unknown
party in the 1960s.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Siberia--Description and travel.
Crimean War, 1853-1856.
Mystic Seaport has the Henry W. Hiller Collection (Coll.77).