Box 1
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Cecil Northrop Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AP-0024
Content Description
This collection provides an intimate picture of Cecil Northrop's life at sea in the 1920s as a cadet in traning and merchant mariner. Northrop kept extensive diaries (handwritten and typed) where he recorded his impressions of life aboard the ship, foreign ports visited, people he met on his travels, and relationships with friends, family, and love interests. It appears Northrop was compiling some of the manuscripts into essays, and viewed his writing as part of the great sea narrative...
Dates:
1919 - 1941
Found in:
Stephen B. Luce Library
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Cecil Northrop Papers
Typed Diary , 1924
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Entries start "At Sea New Years Eve" 1924 Lat. 34-00 N, 71-30 W. Last Entry is "At Sea Dec 30th 1924 Off San Salvador." 44 pages.
Dates:
1924
Handwritten Diary "Me: With Apologies to R. Haggard", 1923 - 1924
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Bound volume. Titled "Me: With Apologies to R. Haggard." Handwritten entries, some drawings and poems. Inside back cover has 31 postage stamps from nations around the world (including Argentina, Brasil, Hong Kong, and Finland).
Dates:
1923 - 1924