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  1. Rich - your fear of not finding enough info is exactly why my dad has the massive stash of info on Glory and keeps writing about her. It’s a dark rabbit hole one jumps down! Over the years people have literally come out of the wood work with never before seen letters or photos, etc. and it takes him to another project. He has filing cabinets crammed with photos, journals and history for quite a few ships and has written and had published a number of articles but Glory still pulls him to write more. Sadly one book that never saw the light of day due to circumstances beyond his control was on the San Francisco waterfront. Before computers and word processors were ever available I used to assist him in typing and rough editing as he used to hand write and then type everything on an old 1952 Underwood typewriter! It has been fascinating to see the progression of the collective project that’s being undertaken here by your group. Arina
  2. Shared your latest photos with my dad, he said “very impressed” with your progress and the fine attention to detail. He truly respects the time and effort you and the others are putting into getting this as accurate as possible 😁
  3. My dad is just a member of the Nautical Research Society (since the early 70’s) and has written articles for their journal. He was at one time the editor and has been a longtime member of the editorial board for Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society and their journal The Sea Chest.
  4. Here are a few photos (sorry for the glare) of my dads collection. His new book should hopefully be published later this year or early 2022. Down East Captain will cover Captain Henry Gillespie (he was captain from 1906-1909). The last photo will be the cover as artist Mark Meyers granted my dad permission to use. The jar with the copper sheathing is from the exploratory dig they originally did when they discovered her exact location in West Seattle. So gracious of the property owner to allow the group to traipse around her property. The scaled down name board my late brother did while in wood shop (when they still offered those types of classes!!) He actually had done another one that is unfinished. Next is a door off Glory. The spike was given to him by I believe someone involved in the burning of Glory and the balsa wood hull is the sister to the one we brought over to Robs. He of course has many more things pertaining to Glory (and quite a few other ships including full size plans, photos, books and data in genera). He has a number of prints/paintings as well.
  5. One of the name plates is should still be on display at the Research library situated on the third floor of Building E of the National Park Service complex at San Francisco. They started exhibiting it in conjunction with publication of Clipper Ship Captain in 1997. I went to see it when I was a teenager and going in a trip to Disneyland. My brother also did a scaled down replica up that is hanging in my folks living room above one of the paintings of Glory.
  6. Hey all - We’ve set up a new email address for my father - easier to keep everything in the proper compartments for his various projects, etc. As my folks own the rights to numerous articles, photos and his books this is just a natural progression - Pacific Maritime Publishing Foundation. In my spare time I’ll eventually do more with a website I’m sure (you can’t see me but I’m laughing hysterically becasue I don’t have any spare time!!) PacMaritimePubFdn@gmail.com
  7. He could’ve probably answered that for you as well - he’s part of the editorial board (or at least I think he still is LoL)
  8. My father said he’d be happy to answer that and explain to you the ins and outs of said issue - feel free to email him. He is pretty good about answering emails. He generally checks them at least twice a day and it’s a great way to communicate with him (he and I email back and forth as it’s also an efficient way sometimes to communicate LOL)! mjmjelde38@cs.com
  9. If you have the second book written by my father you will find much of the above book referenced, the family gave my father an original typed copy of it and their permission and blessing to expound further on his journeys aboard Glory along with far more information than could be put into one book. He has been collecting/compiling information for years and I’m hoping he’s been spurred to finish getting everything catalogued - his index between books, various ship plans, charts and photos is getting close to 400 pages and covers an extremely wide variety of maritime history (and is not just on Glory). He’s also assisted other writers with their endeavors usually as he as information due to a parallel project that necessitated research. Occasionally new data shows up that corroborates a sliver of data he had but couldn’t verify so a new file gets started for possible future use. The Glory hull is one of those items however that has been a challenge!!
  10. Dad actually has two books that have been submitted for publishing (not approved yet and a daunting process unless someone has a benefactor). They’re both on different time periods of Glory and more on particular voyage or people vs the vessel itself. He has enough file folders of photos and data on her (a few file cabinet drawers) for a few books! Over the years he’s become more of a generalist in maritime matters (not solely focused on clipper ships) so Glory hasn’t been only focus but fortunately with time more info has come forward and more of her history has been unearthed. Sadly the most important and pertinent was destroyed by fire back East or hasn’t come to light.
  11. He doesn’t appear to have any more photos of her however he did send off an email to India House and we will have to wait and see if they respond. The published photos of her are few and far between and all seem to be the same angle or too grainy when enlarged!
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