(MARITIME) Wiatt Samuel Diary of a young Englishman en route

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(MARITIME.) Wiatt, Samuel. Diary of a young Englishman en route to Bahia, Brazil. 27 manuscript pages in pencil, plus an additional 4 pages in ink laid in. 4to, original marbled wrappers, minor wear; some soiling to the first leaf, otherwise clean and legible. At sea, 29 May to 12 July 1862

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Samuel Wiatt (born circa 1844) was a passenger aboard the ship Margaret Deane, en route to Bahia to visit his merchant brother. This engaging account of his journey unfortunately stops short of his arrival in Brazil. Apparently the only other passengers on this vessel were three young sisters of the Nicolay family: Albinia, Elizabeth, and Mary Ann, whose father Charles was chaplain of the English church in Bahia. Mary Ann Nicolay (1850-1939), who Wiatt describes at length here, later became a protégé of Florence Nightingale and a noted nurse in Australia.