Does the Nantucket Historical Association have any materials relating to the whaleship Essex?

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex won the National Book Award for nonfiction and was a bestseller for much the year 2000. Its author, Nathaniel Philbrick, Director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and Research Fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association, did a remarkable job of telling one of the most riveting chapters in Nantucket’s whaling history. The horrifying true story of an enraged eighty-ton sperm whale that sunk the Nantucket ship Essex in 1820 was an inspiration for the climax of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. The Nantucket Historical Association owns a number of maps, charts, manuscripts, and artifacts that relate to the Essex, including: drawings and excerpts from the papers of Thomas Nickerson, the cabin boy of the Essex; eyeglasses belonging to Owen Chase, the first mate; a piece of twine made by one of the survivors during the ordeal; as well as a chest that was salvaged from the wreck.