The second Library Jewel for May is a collection of correspondence, records and a journal of one of Seattle’s first settlers.

On Nov. 13, 1851, Captain Robert Colburn Fay was among the first settlers to land at Alki Point in what is now West Seattle. Fay remained in the Puget Sound area for another two decades, meeting with chiefs of various tribes to discuss treaties. Fay spent his last few years living in Coupeville before he died in 1872.

The library’s collection of Fay’s items ranges from 1845 to 1861.