Alone at Sea : The Adventures of Joshua Slocum (9780385674072) (33 page)

“was jumping like …”

— Ibid., p. 146

“The great King Neptune …”

— Ibid., p. 147

“I was tired, tired …”

— Ibid., p. 127

“climax storm …”

— Ibid., p. 147

“hugged the rocks along …”

— Ibid., p. 150

“after the cruise …”

— Ibid., p. 150

“early yesterday morning …”

—
Newport Herald
, June 28, 1898, p.3

“The solitary occupant …”

— Ibid., p.3

“The first name …”

— SAAW, p. 150

“musical story”

— Letter from Mabel Stevenson (Secretary, The Wagnalls Memorial) to Walter Teller, October 31, 1953, TC

[Miserere “a musical story,” Mabel Wagnalls, Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1892, pp. PANS]

“A thousand thanks …”

— Ibid., TC

“Was the crew well …”

— SAAW, p. 150

“return to the very beginning”

— Ibid., p. 150

“I secured her …”

— Ibid., p. 150

“Occasionally lapsing …”

— Undated clipping, probably
Providence Journal

“I am longing …”

— JS in letter to the
Standard
, New Bedford, July 3, 1898. TC

“I want to give …”

— Ibid.

“But my heart is …”

— Ibid.

“the time to be spent …”

— JS in letter to the
Boston Sun
, October 31, 1898, TC

“to equip [his students] …”

— Ibid.

“induce people …”

— Ibid.

“In fact, just as …”

— Ibid.

“I am not ashamed …”

—
Morning Mercury
, July 4, 1898

“several tons of freight …”

—
New York Herald
, July, 1898

“Curiosities of all sorts …”

— Letter from JS to the
Times of London
, written
from St. Helena on April 31, 1898, mentioned in
New Bedford Standard
, Summer of 1898

“Captain Slocum is …”

—
New York Times
, August 5, 1898, p.12, col. 2

“It is not ‘the greatest …”

— Letter from JS to the
Times of London
written from St. Helena on April 31, 1898, mentioned in the
New Bedford Standard
, Summer 1898

“Press Comments …”

— Lecture publicity pamphlet, with quotes of reviews of lectures given by JS along his world voyage, 1897 and 1898, TC

“Talks — 100 slides”

— Ibid.

“The Captain has a droll …”

— Ibid., cited from
Natal Mercury
, November 24, 1897, TC

“called first class …”

— Letter from JS to Richard Gilder, July 1, 1898, TC

“The views were very …”

—
New Bedford Evening Standard
, July 3, 1898, TC

“I soon found that people …”

— Letter from JS to Richard Gilder, July 1, 1898
Pg. 194

“blow the hair …”

—
St. Helena Guardian
, April 3, 1898, p. 3, col. 1

“I left my hat there”

— Ibid.

“because ‘her’ …”

—
Cape Argus
, January 16, 1898, TC

“because he could not …”

— Ibid.

“I have a fund …”

— Letter from JS to editor,
Century
, TC

“Without say Slocum Slocum …”

— Ibid.

“one or two short letters”

— Letter from JS to Richard Gilder, July 1, 1898, TC

“These I discontinued …”

— Ibid.

“vessel has in a cargo …”

— Ibid.

“There were indeed features …”

— Ibid.

“My ‘type-writer’ and I …”

— Letter from JS to C.C. Buel, January 1899, TC

“Mr. Johnson …”

— Letter from JS to
Century
, TC

“make it not the worst …”

— Ibid.

“When you see an error …”

— Letter to Slocum from editors, TC

“a prominent part …”

— Letter to Walter Teller from Constance Buel Burnett, TC

“I write to assure you …”

— Letter from JS to editor, Johnson, August 12, 1899, TC

“I find it rather difficult …”

— Letter from JS to editor, Jo hnson, August 14, 1899, TC

[“Sailing Alone Around the World” was serialized in
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
between September 1899 and March 1900. On November 11, 1899, Slocum wrote to the editor of the
New York Times
regarding “a criticism from an old salt.” The disgruntled and thin-skinned captain of the
Spray
wrote this to the disbeliever: “This unpretentious sloop built by one pair of hands, after circumnavigating the globe is sound and snug and tight. She does not leak a drop. This would be called a great story by some; nevertheless it is a hard fact.” In defense of his story in the
Century
, Slocum continued: “The story of the voyage is contructed on the same seaworthy lines; that is, it remains waterproof, which your navigating officer will discover, I trust, if only he exercise to the end that patience necessary on a voyage around the world.”] “I congratulate the Century
…”

— Letter from JS to C.C. Buel, October 30, 1900, TC

“To the one who said …”

—
Sailing Alone Around the World
, The Century Company, 1900

“To Mabel Wagnalls …”

— Letter from Mabel Stevenson (Secretary, The Wagnalls Memorial) to Walter Teller, October 31, 1953, TC

[Mabel Wagnalls later wrote a short review of
Sailing Alone Around the World
, which the Century Company used for their advertising pamphlet. She wrote: “Round the World Alone” — a mighty motto this; and in all the world’s history it applies to only one man, Captain Joshua Slocum. Amid solitude and silence, with the keel of his little boat he has traced the great circle — the emblem of eternity.”]

“one of the most …”

—
The
Bookseller
, New York

“a nautical equivalent …”

— Van Wyck Brooks

“The tale is true …”

— Sir Edwin Arnold

“Absence of literary …”

—
New York Evening Post

“There is no question …”

—
The Nautical Gazette
, April 20, 1900

[Dr. Edward R. Shaw, School of Pedagogy, New York, edited
Sailing Alone Around the World
for schools. In his foreword to
Around the World in the Sloop Spray
, (Scribner, N.Y., 1903), Shaw declared the captain’s story to be “a story of adventure and a lesson in geography all in one.” Copies of the old reader are in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, N.S., and the Old Dartmouth Historical Society Whaling Museum, New Bedford,
Mass.]

“You see I had …”

— Letter from JS to Joel Slocum, May 4, 1899, TC

“I hope that the
Century
…”

— Letter from JS to C.C. Buel, The Century Co., March 30, 1899, TC

“I am not the old fossil …”

— Letter from JS to Professor Otis Tufton Mason, February 27, 1901, TC

“I consider the human …”

— Ibid. TC

“I assume that he …”

— Garfield Slocum’s correspondence with Walter Teller, TC

“The cabins of the Spray …”

—
New York Post
, undated clipping, TC

“a hold full of curiosities …”

—
Morning Mercury
, July 4, 1898,TC

“A Daring New England Yankee …”

—
Bennett Illustrated Souvenir Guide
, Pan-American Exposition, 1901 (edited and compiled by Mark Bennett, United News Edition, The Goff Co. Buffalo, N.Y.), TC

“The captain made ports …”

— Ibid.

“A piece of her original mainsail …”

— Sloop Spray Souvenir, booklet by Henrietta M. Slocum, The Gillis Press, Copyright 1901 by Joshua Slocum

“an old work horse …”

— 1901 story, Buffalo newspaper

“The horse that furnished …”

Ibid.

“But he was one …”

— excerpt from H.S. Smith,
Quite Another Matter
, in
The Skipper
, March 1968
Pg. 206

“Ports are no good …”

—
The Mirror of the Sea
,
Joseph Conrad, Chapter XXXIV, p. 115

[H.S. Smith sent his thoughts on this quote to Walter Teller and made this comparison to Slocum’s situation: “I do not think that ‘Spray’ was benefited [sic] by her long lay-up, or her owner either.”]

“Capt. and Mrs. Slocum …”

—
Vineyard Gazette
, November 13, 1902

“Of late the captain …”

— Clifton Johnson,
Outing
, October 1902, Vol. 41, p.35

“it was his own taste …”

— Undated clipping from the
New Bedford Standard
, TC

“marine flavor”

— Walter Teller’s notes of a visit with Percy Chase Miller, July 8, 1953, TC

“Rudder Ranch”

— Letter from JS to Clifton Johnson, September 21, 1902

“In a single season …”

— Clifton Johnson,
Outing
, October 1902, Vol. 41, p. 35, TC

“has a temper …”

— Walter Teller,
Joshua Slocum
, p. 209, Rutgers University Press, 1956, 1971

“capable of letting …”

— Grace Murray Brown, correspondence with Walter Teller, TC

“be as independent …”

— Ibid.

“I can not be …”

— Ibid.

“a terrible row …”

— Ibid.

“very quick in his movements …”

— Teller’s notes on an interview with Joseph Chase Allen, summer 1953, TC

“I was on the front …”

— Ibid.

Shouting poetry by Robbie Burns

— Grace Murray Brown in letter to Walter Teller, TC

“he burst upon …”

— Ibid.

“an account of his voyage …”

—
West Tisbury News
, PANS

“a little alienated …”

— unidentified notes in TC

“It did not hurt …”

— Teller’s recollections of visits with Hettie Slocum, July 9, 1952, TC

“Josh, Joshua, or …”

— Ibid.

“A winter would be …”

— Letter from Grace Murray Brown to Walter Teller, TC

“Father was a changed …”

— Letter from Garfield Slocum to Walter Teller, TC

“carried a small round …”

— Teller’s notes from an interview with Joseph Chase Allen, summer 1953, TC

“hustling a dollar”

— Letter from JS to Victor, with September 1909 date, not in TC

[Teller notes that the letter is in the possession of B. Aymar Slocum, but B. Aymar’s granddaughters, Carol Slocum Jimerson and Gale Slocum Hermanet, told me they have not seen the letter and have no recollection of it.]

“lectured to a small …”

—
The Gleaner
, January 22, 1906

“the audience was …”

—
Daily Telegraph
, January 9, 1906
Pg. 215

“Had all this occurred …”

— Major James Pond,
Eccentricities of Genius
, New York, 1900.

“absolutely charms …”

— Ibid.

Information about JS’s storytelling

— Carol W. Saley’s correspondence with Teller, August 10, 1953, TC

“how to blow the …”

— Ibid., TC

“I became so …”

— Letter from JS to William Tripp,
March 18, 1904, West Tisbury, TC

“He is now on …”

— Unidentified clipping, TC

“was bound west to pick up …”

—
Providence Journal
, October 15, 1906

“Capt. Slocum in Trouble …”

—
Boston Herald
(Special Dispatch to the
Sunday
Herald)
, May 27, 1906.

[The account of Slocum’s arrest appeared in a number of papers, but not in the Vineyard
Gazette.]

“lean and hungry looking …”

— Percy Chase Miller in letter to Walter Teller, TC