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Journal of Nicolas Servant, Chevalier de Romainval.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.1
Scope and Contents
The author was serving as a lieutenant on board the `Pontchartrain`, a 56-gun vessel of the Compagnie Royale des Indes Orientales, bound from Lorient to Surat in Bombay, and on board the `Aurore` on his return to France. He kept the journal for the entertainment of an unnamed French lady, and although he recorded the distances covered, wind directions, etc., most of the journal concerns life on board, with lively descriptions of the passengers and of local customs in Africa and especially in...
Dates:
1698-1700.
Two journal-letters, of Robert Michael Ballantyne from the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11962
Scope and Contents
Includes two watercolour paintings of the lighthouse, one showing the building from the reef, the other being an interior view; with two other letters of Ballantyne concerning lifeboats, and many later letters of R M Ballantyne, his family and friends.
Dates:
circa 1864-1865.