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This expedition has received almost not attention in our English
histories of Alaska, and so far I have not seen it mention The Story of Alaska) or [[Hulley]]
(Alaska, 1741-1953) mention it at all. [[Dall]] in Alaska and its
History devotes only 62 words to it, without documentation, in a
chronological listing of historical evernts (pp. 331, 332).
My first step in this search was to consult the Arctic Biblio-
graphy, which did not yield any results. My next step was to
consult [[Wickersham]]'s Bibliography of Alaskan Literature, 1724-
1924, where I found three items, Nos. 6287, 6291, and 6292 per-
taining to the journey. The first one is the long account that
I mentioned in my letter to [[Peter]]-- an account of the two-year voyage
of the Good Intent written by [[K. K. Hillsen]], who was under [[Shish-
marev]]. It contains valuable ethnographic and historic information
about Alaska, [[St. Lawrence (island)|St. Lawrence Island]] and [[Siberia]]. The second item
contains only progress reports in 1820 of a few pages. No. 6292,
I discovered, is a considerably shortened version of [[Hillsen]]'s
account written in German.
Of the above, we shall translate the [[Hillsen]] article and the progress
reports, but there are two other articles that I want to include ,
and which I found purely by accident. During my incarceration in the
Library of Congress last fall I checked the tables of contents of
all journals that I thought might contain articles about the expe-
ditions to [[Bering Strait]]: Morskoi Sbornik, Otechestvennye zapiski
(in which [[Hillsen]]'s three-part article appeared), Sievernyi arkhiv,
Syn otechestva, and Zapiski Gidrograficheskago Detartamenta, etc.,
and the more recent journals and state and national ethnographic
and historical series. In Zapiski Gidr. Dep. for 1851 I found the
article, "Svedeniia o Chukchakh, Capt. [[Shishmarev, Gleb Semyonovich, 1781-1835|Shishmarev]]." which contains
his observations of the [[Chukchi|Chukchi]] in his journey of 1821.
Then, by pure change, I discovered [[Berkh, Vasiliĭ Nikolaevich, 1781-1834|Vassili Berkh]]'s Khronologicheskaia
istoriia vseikh puteshestvii v sievernyia poliarnyia strany (Chono-
logical history of all voyages to the Arctic), volumes I and II, 1821,
1823, in an uncatalogued collection of books that had come to the
Smithsonian Libraries from [[William H. Dall]]'s estate. I had inquired
about [[Dall]]'s manuscript collection, now in the Smithsonian, and the
librarian Mr. [[Marquardt]] gave me permission to look through [[Dall]]'s
wonderful collection of books, which has now been broken up and is
in the process of being catalogued.
I had never heard of this publication before ([[Berkh, Vasiliĭ Nikolaevich, 1781-1834|Berkh]]'s history of the
discovery of the Aleutians in well known and has even been translated).
In volume two of the Chronological history of the voyages are good
summaries of various northern expenditions up to the date of publication,
including [[Vasiliev]]'s and [[Shishmarev, Gleb Semyonovich, 1781-1835|Shishmarev]]'s two-year voyage.
At that time I had not see [[Lada-Mocarski]]'s Bibliography of Books on2 This expedition has received almost not attention in our English My first step in this search was to consult the Arctic Biblio- Of the above, we shall translate the Hillsen article and the progress Then, by pure change, I discovered Vassili Berkh's Khronologicheskaia I had never heard of this publication before (Berkh's history of the At that time I had not see Lada-Mocarski's Bibliography of Books on mss142-vasilevShishmarev-i1-0062
This expedition has received almost not attention in our English
histories of Alaska, and so far I have not seen it mention The Story of Alaska) or [[Hulley]]
(Alaska, 1741-1953) mention it at all. [[Dall]] in Alaska and its
History devotes only 62 words to it, without documentation, in a
chronological listing of historical evernts (pp. 331, 332).
My first step in this search was to consult the Arctic Biblio-
graphy, which did not yield any results. My next step was to
consult [[Wickersham]]'s Bibliography of Alaskan Literature, 1724-
1924, where I found three items, Nos. 6287, 6291, and 6292 per-
taining to the journey. The first one is the long account that
I mentioned in my letter to [[Peter]]-- an account of the two-year voyage
of the Good Intent written by [[K. K. Hillsen]], who was under [[Shish-
marev]]. It contains valuable ethnographic and historic information
about Alaska, [[St. Lawrence (island)|St. Lawrence Island]] and [[Siberia]]. The second item
contains only progress reports in 1820 of a few pages. No. 6292,
I discovered, is a considerably shortened version of [[Hillsen]]'s
account written in German.
Of the above, we shall translate the [[Hillsen]] article and the progress
reports, but there are two other articles that I want to include ,
and which I found purely by accident. During my incarceration in the
Library of Congress last fall I checked the tables of contents of
all journals that I thought might contain articles about the expe-
ditions to [[Bering Strait]]: Morskoi Sbornik, Otechestvennye zapiski
(in which [[Hillsen]]'s three-part article appeared), Sievernyi arkhiv,
Syn otechestva, and Zapiski Gidrograficheskago Detartamenta, etc.,
and the more recent journals and state and national ethnographic
and historical series. In Zapiski Gidr. Dep. for 1851 I found the
article, "Svedeniia o Chukchakh, Capt. [[Shishmarev, Gleb Semyonovich, 1781-1835|Shishmarev]]." which contains
his observations of the [[Chukchi|Chukchi]] in his journey of 1821.
Then, by pure change, I discovered [[Berkh, Vasiliĭ Nikolaevich, 1781-1834|Vassili Berkh]]'s Khronologicheskaia
istoriia vseikh puteshestvii v sievernyia poliarnyia strany (Chono-
logical history of all voyages to the Arctic), volumes I and II, 1821,
1823, in an uncatalogued collection of books that had come to the
Smithsonian Libraries from [[William H. Dall]]'s estate. I had inquired
about [[Dall]]'s manuscript collection, now in the Smithsonian, and the
librarian Mr. [[Marquardt]] gave me permission to look through [[Dall]]'s
wonderful collection of books, which has now been broken up and is
in the process of being catalogued.
I had never heard of this publication before ([[Berkh, Vasiliĭ Nikolaevich, 1781-1834|Berkh]]'s history of the
discovery of the Aleutians in well known and has even been translated).
In volume two of the Chronological history of the voyages are good
summaries of various northern expenditions up to the date of publication,
including [[Vasiliev]]'s and [[Shishmarev, Gleb Semyonovich, 1781-1835|Shishmarev]]'s two-year voyage.
At that time I had not see [[Lada-Mocarski]]'s Bibliography of Books on2 This expedition has received almost not attention in our English My first step in this search was to consult the Arctic Biblio- Of the above, we shall translate the Hillsen article and the progress Then, by pure change, I discovered Vassili Berkh's Khronologicheskaia I had never heard of this publication before (Berkh's history of the At that time I had not see Lada-Mocarski's Bibliography of Books on |
