Quote of the day, 3 June: Mother Clare Joseph, OCD

wind Still very favourable make a deal of advancement. from yesterday 12 till to day 12 made 172 mile. all pretty well. th[i]s Evening the wind Seems to have fallen a little. but hope it will Soon rise again.

Mrs Ramsen call’d in our room to See us & after Looking about her for a while, seeing us at work Said, this Looks like a Sowing School. She brought her work basket, & ask’d us leave to come & Sit with us but we told her the Steward was coming to Sweep She took the hint & away She walk’d.

Mother Clare Joseph of the Sacred Heart, O.C.D.

(Frances Dickinson, 1755-1830)
Journal of a Trip to America, 2 June 1790

Note: Mother Clare Joseph of the Sacred Heart, O.C.D. was one of four foundresses of the Teresian Carmel in the United States of America in the summer of 1790. She was entrusted with keeping the daily journal of their ocean voyage aboard the Brothers, a three-masted, square-rigged merchant frigate sailing from Texel, Netherlands to New York. The nuns departed on 25 April and arrived in New York on “friday Morning the 2d of July.” Although Mother Clare Joseph makes no mention of it in her diary entry for 3 June, that day marked the anniversary of her profession in the Carmel of Antwerp on 3 June 1773.

Dickinson, CJ & FitzGerald, C 1990, The Carmelite adventure: Clare Joseph Dickinson’s journal of a trip to America, and other documents, Carmelite Sisters, Baltimore MD.

Featured image: Nicholas Pocock (British, 1740–1821), The Frigate “Triton” is an oil on canvas painted in 1797. It comes from the collections of the National Maritime Museum, London. Photo credit: National Maritime Museum / ArtUK.

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