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    Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family...
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  • Dana Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815–1882), American lawyer and author, son of Dana Sr. Richard Henry Dana III (1851–1931), American lawyer, son of Dana...
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    Richard Henry Dana Sr. (November 15, 1787 – February 2, 1879) was an American poet, critic and lawyer. His son, Richard Henry Dana Jr., also became a...
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    Dana Point, which was in turn named after Richard Henry Dana Jr., author of Two Years Before the Mast, which included a description of the area. Dana...
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  • Schools named for Richard Henry Dana Jr. include: Richard Henry Dana Middle School (Arcadia), Arcadia, California Dana Middle School (San Diego), San Diego...
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    politician Richard Henry Dana Jr. and Sarah (née Watson) Dana (1814–1907). His paternal grandfather was poet and critic Richard Henry Dana Sr. Dana graduated...
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    Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage...
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    lightning. — Charles Darwin, 1832 In Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana Jr., (1815–1882) describes seeing a corposant in the horse latitudes...
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    American sailing brig. She was immortalized by one of her sailors Richard Henry Dana Jr., who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about...
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  • Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, and Barry Fitzgerald. It is based on Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s travel book of the same name and was produced and distributed...
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    Richard Henry Dana Branch, named after Richard Henry Dana Jr. and later known as the Cypress Park Branch, is a former branch library of the Los Angeles...
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    Inspired by contemporaneous popular cultural reading, including Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s new book Two Years Before the Mast and Jeremiah N. Reynolds's...
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  • by Richard Henry Dana Jr. gives a good first-hand account of a two-year sailing ship sea trading voyage to California which he took in 1834–35. Dana mentions...
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    The first appearance of the word "beachcombers" in print was in Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s Two Years Before the Mast (1840) and later referenced in Herman...
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    University. His son, Richard Henry Dana Sr., was an important poet and literary critic as well as a lawyer. His grandson, Richard Henry Dana Jr., was a noted...
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    animals called elks, from which they make elk leather jackets." When Richard Henry Dana Jr. visited San Francisco Bay in 1835, he wrote about vast elk herds...
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    He was the younger sibling of Ruth Dana, known as "Charlotte" to her family (1814-1901) and Richard Henry Dana Jr., and a nephew of Judge Edmund Trowbridge...
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    hitch" referred to two round turns and two half-hitches. In 1841 Richard Henry Dana Jr. used the present-day names in his work The Seaman's Friend, and...
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    Miller, Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, James T. Fields, Charles Norton, John Lothrop Motley, and Richard Henry Dana Jr." Trollope wrote a...
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    it seems most like the visit was by Richard Henry Dana Jr., it may also have been his father Richard Henry Dana Sr. Weber, Sandra (2016-03-26). "Mary...
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  • mate in the Union-Castle Line Joseph Curran, American labor leader Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815–1882), wrote Two Years Before the Mast Andrew Furuseth (1854–1938)...
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    scattered here and there were the antlers of large elk." Also, when Richard Henry Dana Jr. visited San Francisco Bay in 1835, he wrote about vast elk herds...
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  • politician, a founder of the Sons of Liberty Richard Henry Dana Sr. (1787–1879): lawyer, poet, critic Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815–1882): lawyer, politician, author...
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    Their second-youngest daughter was Edith who married Richard Henry Dana III, son of Richard Henry Dana Jr. who wrote Two Years Before the Mast. Their daughter...
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  • Crevecoeur, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. Edmund Wilson described Studies...
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    county's beaches were listed as the cleanest in the state. When Richard Henry Dana Jr. visited San Francisco Bay in 1835, he wrote about vast tule elk...
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    stanza 105. In Chapter XVII of "Two Years Before the Mast" (1840), Richard Henry Dana Jr. relates an anecdote of the ship's cook, who had so bonded with...
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    working ship in the age of sail is Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana Jr., in which the author describes an arduous trip from Boston to California...
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    Harvard University in 1856 and then studied law in the office of Richard Henry Dana Jr. and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In 1895, he received an LL...
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    mention of what became Moby-Dick is a letter Melville wrote to Richard Henry Dana Jr. on May 1, 1850: About the "whaling voyage"—I am half way in the...
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