Correspondence re: launching of "Baltimore"
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:35:18 -0400
From: Owen Lourie
To: edp@maryland.gov
Subject: Re: 1826 newspaper articles; 1693 printed form research
The account of the ship launching from the Patriot has been scanned.
I've put it in msaref rather than emailing it to you, since it's a
large file. See msaref 5458-51-4178: http://msaref.net/description.aspx?item=4178&serno=51 for scans from the
Patriot and the American and my notes.
Owen
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:11:02 -0400
From: Owen Lourie
To: edp@maryland.gov
Subject: Re: 1826 newspaper articles; 1693 printed form research
A number of people watched from on board the Young Phonex of
Capt. Dunbar. A Col. Thomas and E. J. Cole are also mentioned. The
article compares the event to the arrival of Lafayette on his visit to
Baltimore several years earlier.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:33:28 -0400
From: Ed Papenfuse
To: Owen Lourie
Subject: Re: 1826 newspaper articles; 1693 printed form research
Fifth Regiment Band? I hope the Patriot has more. I guess I better
check Gary Browne's research.
Ed
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:52:59 -0400
From: Owen Lourie
To: edp@maryland.gov
Subject: Re: 1826 newspaper articles; 1693 printed form research
I'll have it scanned and get the images to you as soon as I can. This
volume of the American seems only to have half of each issue--the front
page is missing for most of the papers. In fact, I'm not even sure if
all the pages are in order...either way, there aren't any pages with a
mast head, and there are several places where the first column on the
page will begin mid-sentence, but the beginning is nowhere to be found.
The article on the ship-launching is all there, however.
The article notes that there was a large crowd. It doesn't give a
number but says that "the tide of population was seen moving
towards...Fell's Point, attracted by the promised spectacle of the
launch..." The 5th Regiment bad performed and there seem to have been
parties hosted by prominent people, including one held on board a
nearby ship.
Subject: Re: 1826 newspaper articles; 1693 printed form research
From: Ed Papenfuse
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:39:13 -0400
To: Owen Lourie
CC: Maria Day , Rachel Bartgis
I assume you are having the American article (full issue) scanned? If not, please do so. What details in the American are different/expanded? Does it note 40,000 people?
You seem to have done some good research for Rachel on the printed forms used in the binding of the PG Co. Vestry minutes, ca. 1693. While I suspect the forms were discarded when Mary died and
are of London origin, given Thomas Bray's et. al. efforts to establish Anglican Churches in Maryland (See Skirven), it is remotely possible that they were printed by Dinah Nuthead in St. Mary's City. The
recreation of the press in SMC entailed a lot of careful work with our records isolating what she and her husband may have printed. These forms should be compared to that work. In theory we have a
speccol of all that research and images of all the examples of printed forms that were found. These in this volume, of course, are customs forms, and this is a time when the Board of Trade was looking into
the enforcement of entrances and clearances (the LC has the entrances and clearances for this period for the Potomac, if I remember correctly, and there is a good article by V. Wickoff (of St. John's
College) on the subject).
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:57:04 -0400
From: Owen Lourie
To: Ed Papenfuse
CC: Jennifer Hafner , Emily Oland Squires
Subject: Re: 1826 newspaper articles
Ed,
I've had a chance to start looking into this. We only have two Baltimore papers from 1826, the American and the Patriot. The Patriot is at OR, so I've only been able to look at the American, which did
cover the launch of the ship. Its account isn't much different in content than what was in Niles, though it provides a few additional details.
Niles' Register, 13 May 1826
Splendid ships. The beautiful 64 gun ship, built by Mr. Beacham, for the "South American market," [supposed Brazil], was launched at Baltimore on Thursday last [May 11], without accident or
injury. She "sits like a duck" on the water, and is said to be as fine a vessel of her class ever floated. A 64 gun ship, built on the same model, at New York, and also a very superior vessel, has sailed for
Carthagena, and it may happen that these fine vessels shall be placed in opposition to one another.
The day was fine, and it is thought that nearly 40,000 people were present to witness the launch, which took place within 12 minutes of the time appointed.
Baltimore American and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 12 May 1826 [MSA SC3392-3-26, 3/48/1/28]
Includes account of the launch. Notes that the ship is called "Baltimore," 1800 tons. Ship will not be American. No information about captain or destination.
I will have the Patriot sent down to see what coverage it had.
This is in msaref as 5458-51-4178: http://msaref.net/description.aspx?item=4178&serno=51.
Owen.
Subject: 1826 newspaper articles
From: Jennifer Hafner
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:22:35 -0400
To: Owen Lourie
CC: Emily Oland Squires
Owen,
As I will be out of the office the next couple of days, can you start work on a request for Ed?
I have placed a copy of a Niles Register article from May 13, 1826, in your mailbox. Ed has circled an account of the launch of a ship in Baltimore which 40,000 people reportedly came for. He is
looking for any newspaper accounts of this event from both Baltimore newspapers and any Eastern Shore ones which may have covered the Lloyds.
He is interested in -
- any accounts of the launch of the ship
- any discussion of who the captain will be (the fist captain was Franklin Buchanan, who went on to become the first superintendent of the Naval Academy)
- any discussion of aiding and abedding Dom Pedro, the exiled emperor of Brazil
This should be put into msaref.
Thanks,
Jen
