By RBML Staff and Meg Hixon
Title: Ford, William. Travel diary, 1837-1841
ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0050
Creator: Ford, W. (1816-)
Extent: 1.0 Volumes
Date Acquired: 11/26/1958
Languages: English [eng]
This collection consists of a diary (104 pages) by William Ford (fl. 1809-1862), an English mariner who recounted travels to the Caribbean Sea, Canada, and the Iberian Peninsula between December 21, 1837, and September 10, 1841. Ford was a crewman on the HMS Racehorse and often wrote in detail about the ports and cities he visited, as well as other aspects of his life at sea.
The diary includes pencil drawings of Tenerife and Porto Santo Island, both in profile (p. 227), and an unattributed, untitled poem (p. 228). The poem, previously published elsewhere, begins with the line "Let not false mercy aid sedition's cause" and includes an anti-Catholic acrostic message. The volume's inscriptions indicate ownership by W. Ford and Arabella Taylor, High Cross House, Sampford Peverell, Devon.
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Access Restrictions: The collection is open for research.
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Acquisition Source: A. L. Rowse
Finding Aid Revision History: Revised by Meg Hixon (December 2016) and Dana Miller (December 2023).
Other Note: Formerly cataloged as Manuscript diary of early 19th-century sea captain who sailed in the 1830s for the West Indies...
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