Thus was my introduction as a young girl to the world of whaling and the adventurous life of Marian Shaw Smith. Kathleen Lafferty: My Cousin Marian A pair of tall vases. A ruby ring. Huge whale teeth. A carved walrus tusk. An umbrella swift made of whalebone used to wind yarn. Old photographs of whaling ships. Letters written on thin vellum, with fading ink, signed by a woman named Marian.
Kathleen Lafferty: Letter to an Ancestor I Lafferty writes to her ancestor Marian Smith, navigator, photographer, and correspondent, who sailed throughout the world at the turn of the 20th century with her whaling captain husband.
Kathleen Lafferty: Letter to an Ancestor II Second in a series of letters to her ancestor Marian Smith.
