p. 6: The Morgan sailed on her first voyage September 6, 1841, under command of Captain Norton, with twenty-six-year-old James C. Osborn, also of Edgartown, as second mate and keeper of a journal of the voyage. Osborn must have been literarily inclined for he took a library of over seventy volumes with him, including books on history, travel and memoirs as well as twenty-two volumes of Marryatt’s works.
Charles W. Morgan 1841 library
The Charles W. Morgan is the flagship of the Mystic Seaport Museum, the only extant whaling ship in the country, recently restored and sailing again.