Folder MS0247.01.05

1980 May 6 Sailing Ship Histories (photocopy of letter and attachments) Reports that voyage logs usually belong to the ships’ captains mentions a Mrs. Gorham Brooks (Rosalind Sturgis Dixey), Capt. Richard Dixey and the R.H. Dixey. Attachment: The Gale at Mobile – Fearful Loss of Life, loss of ship Dixey. (Gleason is a ship history researcher)

1980 May 14 Win says to Bob that investment in Sailing Ship Histories and working with Gleason will pay off, Lewis Girdler’s last voyage was on the Acasta to Manila, Richard Evans voyage on the Archer and Dashing Wave and Hannah Girdler LeCraw. Proposes paying Gleason to do the additional research.

1980 May 26 thanks for the check – its funds are being ploughed into the “project” searching for Dixey descendants: Sheperd Brooks, Graham Brooks who married Rosalind Sturgis Dixey, Emma Knight (see SC MS 0247.01.05.17) seems to have solved the puzzle of Ama and Emma.

1980 November 16 says with some certainty that Lewis Girdler after taken from Hano, Sweden must have been interned at Ashburton, England 1812 (proof attached Prisoners’ Memoirs, Dartmoor Prison photocopy of some pages) remarks hiring a lady that specialized in tracing sailing ships to work on R.H. Dixey, Richard Dixey, going to Riverside to spend a day with Reynolds and seeing Girdler relics.

1980 December 21 (handwritten Christmas note saying she was so glad to have met Bob.

1981 January 12 “Tel. operator said Girdler in Salisbury (NC)” ?? “Gerold Girdler 57-’65 1322 Head St. Columbia S.C. 786-5839 Robt Civil eng. Bloomington Ill – Army ?? “nurse at St Joseph Katlyn Girdler Kathleen – father George Birch Girdler Fort Wayne 733-1591 2302 Central Ave. 30904.

“Senior art show planned at college” (features a newspaper photograph of three young women: Mary Wright, Kathy (Kathleen) Girdler, Judith King.)