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Gleb Semyonovich Shishmarev (1781-1835) and Mikhail Nikolayevich Vasil'ev (1770-1847) were officers in the Imperial Russian Navy. Their expedition of 1819-1822 explored the western coast of Alaska. These papers, from the Vilhjalmur Stefansson Collection, include correspondence from anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray regarding her scholarship about early accounts of the expedition, a summary of the voyage by Vasilii N Berkh (from the Chronological History of all the Voyages to the Arctic, 1970 - 1972, translated from the Russian by Rhea Josephson), Karl K. Hillsen’s journal (translated from the Russian by Rhea Josephson), and Captain Shishmarev's article about Chukchi (translated from the Russian by Rhea Josephson).
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Works
Capt. Shishmarev's information about the Chukchi
Typescript of Chapter Six for a book Dorothy Jean Ray planned to write about the Vasilev-Shishmarev Expedition of 1819-1822. Contains the translation from the Russian by Rhea Josephson of Capt. Shishmarev's information about the Chukchi (Svedeni︠ia︡ o Chukchakh, Capt. Shishmarev) by Shishmarev.
Dorothy Jean Ray, letter, to Edward Connery Lathem, 1970 July 9
Dorothy Jean Ray, letter, to Peter B. Dirlam, 1970 June 28
Edward Connery Lathem, memorandum, to Erika Schinn Parmi, 1972 March 7
Journey of the sloop Good Intent to explore the Asiatic and American shores of Bering Strait, 1819 to 1822. Part one
Typescript of Chapter Three for a book Dorothy Jean Ray planned to write about the Vasilev-Shishmarev Expedition of 1819-1822. Contains the translation from the Russian by Rhea Josephson of part one of Karl K. Hillsen's journal, Journey of the sloop "Good Intent" to explore the Asiatic and...
Journey of the sloop Good Intent to explore the Asiatic and American shores of Bering Strait, 1819 to 1822. Part three
Typescript of Chapter Five for a book Dorothy Jean Ray planned to write about the Vasilev-Shishmarev Expedition of 1819-1822. Contains the translation from the Russian by Rhea Josephson of part three of Karl K. Hillsen's journal, Journey of the sloop "Good Intent" to explore the Asiatic and...
Journey of the sloop Good Intent to explore the Asiatic and American shores of Bering Strait, 1819 to 1822. Part two
Typescript of Chapter Four for a book Dorothy Jean Ray planned to write about the Vasilev-Shishmarev Expedition of 1819-1822. Contains the translation from the Russian by Rhea Josephson of part two of Karl K. Hillsen's journal, Journey of the sloop "Good Intent" to explore the Asiatic and...
The Chronological History of all the Voyages to the Arctic
Typescript of Chapter Two for a book Dorothy Jean Ray planned to write about the Vasilev-Shishmarev Expedition of 1819-1822. Contains the translation from the Russian by Rhea Josephson of part of The chronological history of all the voyages to the Arctic (Khronologicheska︠i︡a istor︠i︡a vs︠i︡ekh...