[SCRAPBOOK VOLUME OF NEWSPAPER AND PERIODICAL CLIPPINGS RELATED TO SAILORS' HOMES AND ASYLUMS, PASTED INTO The Sailors' Home Journal FOR 1854]

[Sailors' Homes]

Published by Publication Date: 1877

Approximately [140]pp. of pasted clippings, letters, tipped-in articles. Folio. Contemporary blue cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Contents mostly clean, though some scattered soiling; scattered chipping to edges of leaves. Many items laid in loosely. Overall, good. An interesting compilation of newspaper and periodical clippings, manuscripts, pamphlets, and ephemera relating to sailors' homes. A sailor's home was an establishment which catered specifically to seamen, providing them with an alternative to boarding houses or other lodgings. They were paid for by the donations and subscriptions of local civic- minded citizens, and provided not only a comfortable bed, but also medical care and religious and moral instruction. One pamphlet entitled "Opening of a Sailor's Home, in the Port of London," explains the need for these facilities: ".Sir William Hall made an address. He said that a long experience of sailors had made him familiar with the misery and wrongs they were compelled to endure when on shore, and after years of labour and agitation he at length induced the general public to consider sailors' claims and sailors' wants. The result was that at nearly all the principal ports of the kingdom.institutions had been opened where sailors' personal comforts, their money, and clothes were cared for by persons who had only the sailors' own interests in view, and where their moral character was strengthened by the practice of cleanly and temperate habits." The part of this volume that is the foundation for this volume is a periodical entitled THE SAILORS' HOME JOURNAL FOR 1854; A CHRONICLE OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND MERCANTILE MARINE, published in London; significant portions of this text have been cut from the volume. There is no record of this journal in OCLC, though it is listed in the British Library's catalogue. An interesting collection of maritime material. Seller Inventory # WRCAM40357

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Title: [SCRAPBOOK VOLUME OF NEWSPAPER AND ...
Publication Date: 1877