50 leaves, folio (325 x 210 mm). Written in cursive in black ink in possibly two hands. Several ink diagrams. (Some staining and show-through.) 24pp. sewn into wrappers (staining and tears with losses); with additional 26pp. stab-sewn and laid in (several leaves becoming disbound). Provenance: Horatio N. Fish Jr. (inscription on cover). 

 

Horatio Nelson Fish Jr. (1843-1864), was raised in Mystic, Connecticut, and was a member of one of Mystic’s founding families.  He enlisted in the Connecticut Volunteer infantry in 1862, and died in Virginia in 1864 as a result of wounds he received.  His manuscript, surveying the Mystic River on 12 January 1860, also includes notes and exercises relating to simple and quadratic equations, algebra, Mercator’s sailing, and plain and traverse sailing.