28. McKay, Donald McKay and His Famous Sailing Ships, 240.
Chapter 15: Hill and River
1. Nathaniel Parker Willis, quoted in Ward, Before the Trumpet (Kindle edition), location 939 of 7888.
2. Frederic A. Delano, Algonac, 1851–1931, Collection of the Historical Society of Newburgh and the Highlands.
3. Delano, Algonac, 5.
4. Kleeman, Gracious Lady, 38.
5. Ward, Before the Trumpet (1985), 63.
6. Anna Lyman to Edward N. R. Lyman, October 1843, quoted in Frederic A. Delano, Warren Delano (II) and Catherine Robbins (Lyman) Delano, 8.
7. Jan Potker, Sara and Eleanor: The Story of Sara Delano Roosevelt and Her Daughter-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014), 14.
8. Warren Delano II, quoted in Kleeman, Gracious Lady, 28.
9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, quoted in Jean Edward Smith, FDR (New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007), 4.
10. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Antislavery Writings, ed. Len Gougeton and Joel Myerson (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), 3.
11. Jim Nugent, “John Murray Forbes,” Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography, accessed June 3, 2016, http://uudb.org/articles/johnforbes.html.
12. Warren Delano II, quoted in Jan Potker, Sara Delano Roosevelt and Her Daughter-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014), 14.
13. William C. Hunter, quoted in Ward, Before the Trumpet (1986), 70.
14. John Murray Forbes to Warren Delano II, October 4, 1848, Delano Family Papers, II, Papers of Warren Delano II, 5, General Correspondence, 1843–1891, container 34, FDR Library.
15. John Murray Forbes, Letters and Recollections, vol. 1, 33.
16. Interview of Llewellyn Howland III, December 15, 2016.
17. “John Murray Forbes,” Spectator, October 28, 1899, 18, http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/28th-october-1899/18/john-murray-forbes.
18. Ward, Before the Trumpet (1985), 86–87.
19. Grant Jr., “Fair, Honorable, and Legitimate Trade.”
20. Dunbaugh and Thomas, William H. Webb, 65.
21. Ferreiro, “Biographical Sketch of John Willis Griffiths,” 223.
22. John Willis Griffiths, Monthly Nautical 4 (August 1855): Maritime History Virtual Archives, accessed July 13, 2016, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Lightning(1854).html.
23. Donald McKay to Lauchlan McKay, 1856, Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 59.
24. Ibid., 64, 68.
25. McKay, Donald McKay and His Famous Clipper Ships, 239.
26. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, vol. 1, 256.
27. Dunbaugh and Thomas, William H. Webb, 72.
28. Knoblock, American Clipper Ship, Kindle edition, location 1954 of 9960.
29. James Bradley, The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia (New York: Little, Brown, 2015), 29.
30. Forbes, Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, vol. 1, 28.
31. J. A. Spencer, History of the United States from the Earliest Period to the Administration of President Johnson, vol. 3, bk. 7 (New York: Johnson, Fry, 1866), 542.
32. Augur, Tall Ships to Cathay, 242.
33. Low, Some Recollections, 146.
34. Charles Porter Low, quoted in Augur, Tall Ships to Cathay, 245.
35. Low, Some Recollections, 148.
36. Wingrove Cooke, London Times, n.d., quoted in Maggie Keswick, ed., The Thistle and the Jade: A Celebration of 150 Years of Jardine, Matheson & Co. (London: Octopus Books, 1982), 35.
37. Robert Bennet Forbes to Rose Forbes, January 25, 1839, Phyllis Forbes Kerr, Letters from China: The Canton-Boston Correspondence of Robert Bennet Forbes, 1838-1840 (Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1996), 87–90.
38. “History of J. M. Forbes & Co.”
Chapter 16: Surprise and Danger
1. Smith, FDR.
2. Lars Bruzelius, “Flying Cloud,” Maritime History Virtual Archives, last modified December 14, 2003, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Flying_Cloud(1851).html.
3. James L. Huston, The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999), 30.
4. Warren Delano II, quoted in Kleeman, Gracious Lady, 35.
5. Ibid.
6. Commodore Matthew Perry, quoted in Peter Booth Wiley, Yankees in the Land of the Gods (New York: Penguin Books, 1991), 490.
7. Entertainment Given to Mr. A. A. Low by the Members of the Chamber of Commerce on his Return from a Voyage Round the World (New York: Abiel Abbot Low, 1867), 18.
8. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 292.
9. Ibid., 341–42.
10. “Loss of the Packet Ship Staffordshire, and One Hundred and Eighty Lives,” Boston Semi-Weekly Atlas, January 4, 1854, Maritime History Virtual Archives, accessed October 3, 2017, www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/News/BSWA/BSWA(1854-01-04).html.
11. Kleeman, Gracious Lady, 43.
12. Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne, December 13, 1860, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 4, Library of the University of Michigan, accessed July 5, 2016, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln4/1:234?rgn=div1;view=fulltext.
13. Abraham Lincoln to Henry L. Pierce, April 6, 1859, accessed July 5, 2016, www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/pierce.htm.
14. Henry Cleveland, Alexander H. Stephens, in Public and Private: With Letters and Speeches, Before, During, and Since the War (Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1886), 717–29, www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/stephens.html.
15. Warren Delano II, as quoted by Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, PBS, 2014.
16. US Department of the Navy to William Henry Aspinwall and John Murray Forbes, March 16, 1863, John Murray Forbes, Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, vol. 2, ed. Sarah Forbes Hughes (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), 41.
17. William Henry Aspinwall and John Murray Forbes to Salmon Chase, April 13, 1863, Forbes, Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, vol. 2, 41.
18. “The Nightingale of Boston and the Last Gasps of the American Slave Trade,” New England Historical Society, n.d., accessed July 12, 2016, www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/nightingale-boston-last-gasps-american-slave-trade.
19. Mark J. Sammons and Valerie Cunningham, Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African-American Heritage (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2004), 129.
20. “Rediscovering the Robert J. Walker,” National Marine Sanctuaries, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/maritime/walker/officers.html#no7, accessed October 26, 2017.
21. Donald McKay, “The British Navy: An Interesting Letter on Ironclad Ships by Donald McKay, New York Times online, December 23, 1861, www.nytimes.com/1861/12/23/news/the-british-navy-interesting-letter-on-ironclad-ships-by-donald-mckay.html?pagewanted=all.
22. Donald McKay to Lauchlan McKay, 1856, Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 33.
23. Kleeman, Gracious Lady, 41.
24. David Drury, “Quinine, Morphine, and Whiskey: Tools of the Civil War Battlefield Doctor, Hartford Courant online, December 29, 2012, http://articles.courant.com/2012-12-29/news/hc-civil-war-medicine-1216-20121223_1_surgeon-civil-war-medicine-doctors.
25. “Statistics on the Civil War and Medicine,” eHistory, The Ohio State University, https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/cwsurgeon/cwsurgeon/statistics, accessed October 26, 2017.
26. William L. White, Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America (Bloomington, IL: Chestnut Health Systems, 1998), 1, www.williamwhitepapers.com/pr/2014%20Opiate%20Addiction%20and%20the%20Civil%20War.pdf.
27. Albert Marrin, FDR and the American Crisis (New York: Penguin Random House, 2015), 10.
28. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 208.
29. R. J. C. Butow, “A Notable Passage to China: Myth and Memory in FDR’s Family History,” Prologue 31, no. 3 (Fall 1999): www.archives
.gov/publications/prologue/1999/fall/roosevelt-family-history-1.html.
30. Knapp, An Old Merchant’s House, 63.
31. Butow, “A Notable Passage to China.”
32. Knapp, An Old Merchant’s House, 61.
33. Butow, “A Notable Passage to China.”
34. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, 291.
35. Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, 7.
36. Kleeman, Gracious Lady, 51.
37. Ibid., 46.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., 49.
40. Ibid., 55.
41. Low, Some Recollections, 143.
42. Campbell, China Tea Clippers, 71.
43. Spears, Nathaniel Brown Palmer, 248.
44. Low, Some Recollections, 156.
45. Augur, Tall Ships to Cathay, 246.
46. Fan Shuh Ching, The Population of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Committee for International Coordination of National Research in Demography, 1974), 1.
47. Ibid.
Chapter 17: Glory of the Seas
1. Clark, Clipper Ship Era, 259.
2. Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 40.
3. New York Times, January 29, 1867, quoted in Dunbaugh and Thomas, William H. Webb, 117.
4. Michael Jay Mjelde, Glory of the Seas (Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press, 2000), 3.
5. Boston Evening Traveler, October 19–21, 1869, quoted in Mjelde, Glory of the Seas, 14.
6. Mjelde, Glory of the Seas, 25.
7. Ibid., 5.
8. Limited power of attorney executed by Houqua in favor of Warren Delano II, January 8, 1867.
9. Boston Post, December 5, 1868.
10. Roland, Bolster, and Keyssar, Way of the Ship, 197.
11. Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 40.
12. McKay, Donald McKay and His Famous Sailing Ships, 222.
13. Seth Low, quoted in Augur, Tall Ships to Cathay, 241–42.
14. Mjelde, Glory of the Seas, 5.
15. Ibid., 17, 19.
16. Ibid., 7.
17. San Francisco Bulletin, quoted in Mjelde, Glory of the Seas, 7.
18. Mjelde, Glory of the Seas, 23.
19. Ibid., 27–28.
20. Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 40.
21. Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships, vol. 1, 195.
22. Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 40.
23. Ibid., 41.
24. Ibid., 43.
25. Brooklyn Eagle, March 10, 1895, quoted in Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 116.
26. Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 43.
27. Brooklyn Eagle, March 10, 1895, quoted in Hamilton, Donald McKay’s Family, 116.
28. John M. Leighty, “The Yacht Thursday’s Child Sailed Under the Golden Gate …” UPI Archives, February 12, 1989, www.upi.com/Archives/1989/02/12/The-yacht-Thursdays-Child-sailed-under-the-Golden-Gate/4573603262800.
29. Jonathan M. Fisher, “Overtaking a Clipper Ship After 135 Years,” New York Times online, February 11, 1989, www.nytimes.com/1989/02/11/sports/overtaking-a-clipper-ship-after-135-years.html.
Chapter 18: Keeping It in the Family
1. Alden Whitman, “Adm. Morison, Historian, Is Dead,” New York Times online, May 16, 1976, www.nytimes.com/1976/05/16/archives/adm-morison-88-historian-is-dead-samuel-eliot-morison-historian-is.html.
2. Household receipt dated June 20, 1864, China Accounts, 1862–1866, Delano Family Papers, II, Papers of Warren Delano II, 5, General Correspondence, 1843–1891, container 32, FDR Library.
3. C. H. Odgen to Warren Delano II, June 30, 1866, Delano Family Papers, II, Papers of Warren Delano II, 5, General Correspondence, 1843–1891, container 32, FDR Library, Hyde Park.
4. Ward, Before the Trumpet (Kindle edition), location 1824 of 7888.
5. Letter Book of Charles A. Lovett, 1865–1870, Delano Family Papers, 43–150: 144, FDR Library.
6. Warren Delano, April 6, 1843, in Downs, Golden Ghetto (Kindle edition, 2015), location 3879 of 13153.
7. Statement to George Peabody, September 26, 1864, China Accounts, 1862–1866, Delano Family Papers, II, Papers of Warren Delano II, 5, General Correspondence, 1843–1891, container 32, FDR Library.
8. Limited power of attorney executed by Honqua in favor of Warren Delano II, January 8, 1867, Delano Family Papers II, General Correspondence, 1843–1891, container 34, FDR Library.
9. Baker Forbes, Subseries III: Forbes family trust and estate papers, 1834–1988, Boxes 16, f.10 Houqua, 1873–1879, March 17 1879, as quoted in John Wong, Global Positioning: Houqua and His China Trade Partners in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Harvard University, 2012), 119, http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9282867, accessed February 17, 2017.
10. Email between Frederic Delano Grant Jr. and Steven Ujifusa, November 16, 2017.
11. Warren Delano II to Edward Delano, quoted in Ward, Before the Trumpet (Kindle edition), location 1845 of 7888.
12. Frederic Adrian Delano, Algonac, 1851–1931 (printed privately, Collection of the Historical Society of Newburgh and the Highlands), 6–7.
13. Kleeman, Gracious Lady, 74.
14. Unpublished biographical sketch of Warren Delano by Frederic Adrian Delano, quoted in Ward, Before the Trumpet (Kindle edition), location 2118 of 7888.
15. Robert Bennet Forbes to Warren Delano II, February 26, 1879, quoted in Downs, Golden Ghetto (Kindle edition, 1997), location 8263 of 13153.
16. Ward, Before the Trumpet (Kindle edition), location 2016 of 7888.
17. Charles Alexander Tomes, Autobiography (unpublished), Charles Alexander Tomes Papers, N. 49.52, Massachusetts Historical Society.
18. Grant Jr., “Fair, Honorable, and Legitimate Trade.”
19. Frederic Adrian Delano, Algonac.
20. Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 29.
21. Low, Some Recollections, 179.
22. Augur, Tall Ships to Cathay, 249.
23. Laura Carter Holloway, Famous American Fortunes and the Men Who Have Made Them. A Series of Sketches of Many Notable Merchants, Capitalists, Railroad Presidents, Bonanza and Cattle Kings of the Country (Philadelphia: Garrettson & Company, 1883), 419.
24. “Mr. Aspinwall’s Gallery,” Harper’s Weekly, February 26, 1859, quoted in Colonel Duncan S. Somerville, The Aspinwall Empire (Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum), 107.
25. Shaw, Flying Cloud, 265.
26. Low, Some Recollections, 178.
INDEX
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A. A. Low & Brother, 72, 79, 84, 88, 99, 107, 110, 116, 158, 162, 177, 195, 219, 239, 243, 253, 254, 280, 285, 303, 315, 324, 331
abolitionists, 276, 286, 287, 309
Adams, Abigail, 203
Adams, Charles Francis, 22–23, 310
Adams, John, 22, 203
Adams, John Quincy, 22, 62, 203
addiction, opiates and, 46, 47–49
Admiralty, British, 160
Africa, 17, 19, 21n, 209, 225, 331
Agamemnon, SS, 297
Akbar (trading ship), 57, 59
Alabama, CSS, 317–18
Albany, N.Y., 66, 184, 193, 285
Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 132
alcohol, 48, 170
Alfred Holt & Company, 297
Algonac (Delano estate), 1, 3–4, 5, 157, 283–87, 289, 290, 307, 309, 316–17, 318, 321, 324, 339, 343–44, 345
“Algonac Diaries” (Delanos), 3, 285, 343–44
Alvares, Jorge, 20
America, 241–42
American Institute of the City of New York, 109–10
American Navigation Society, 241, 242
American Revolution, 18, 20, 21, 167, 180
Americ
an Scenery (Willis), 283
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 348
Anglicans, 26, 284
Anglo-American, 168
Anglo-Saxon, 168
Angola, 86, 88
Anjer, Dutch East Indies, 117, 243, 323
Ann McKim, 87–88, 110, 125
Antarctica, 105–6, 151, 216
Antelope, 86, 88, 255
Anthony, Joseph, 182, 183
Antietam, Battle of (1862), 314
Architecture of Country Houses, The (Downing), 3
Arctic, SS, 267
Argentina, 216
Ariel, 86, 88
Arkansas, 68
Arrowdale (Delano mansion), 81
Aspinwall, William Henry, 71, 87, 91, 180, 286, 302
art collection and, 349
Civil War and, 310–11, 318
clipper ships and, 108, 109–10, 124–25, 129–30, 132, 134, 156, 161, 163, 178, 180, 194, 349
death of, 349
Pacific coast shipping and, 134–35, 156–57, 294, 349
Astor, John Jacob, 67, 84, 128, 176
Astor, William, 75
Astor Place Opera House, 74
Augur, Helen, 187n
Aurora, 242
Australia, 261, 262–63, 268, 280, 291, 331n
gold rush in, 269, 277
Babcock, David S., 231
Baines, James, 263, 268, 280, 291
Baltimore, Md., 22, 87, 294
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 294–95
Baltimore clippers, 86–88, 100, 218
Bank of the United States, Second, 68, 153
Baring Brothers & Co., 25, 28, 115, 118, 153, 184, 241, 242, 254, 299–300, 311
barnacles, 115
Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 276
Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 252
Beach, Moses, 76
Bedell, Ann, 61
Bell’s Life in London, 242
Bennett, James Gordon, 196
bills of exchange, 24–25
Birkenshaw, Fred, 225, 232
Black Ball Line, 67, 72, 130, 262
Black Horse Line, 175
Black Star Line, 207
Bliss, Mary, 337
Blue Funnel Line, 297
Bohemian Girl, The (Balfe), 318
Boise, Reuben Patrick, 205, 229, 230
Bolívar, Simon, 106
Bolster, W., 177
Boston, Mass., 66, 196, 237, 252
China trade and, 14, 17, 22, 24, 126, 177, 341
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