Selected records from Admiralty 1 and 7 relating to Matthew Flinders [microform] : [M444] 1801-1812
- Bib ID:
- 583711
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Great Britain. Admiralty
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference.
- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]
- 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Series:
- Papers of Matthew Flinders (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Summary:
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Selections from Admiralty 1 and 7 in the Public Record Office relating to Matthew Flinders (Adm. 1/177, 1200, 1800, 1803-4, 1806-9, 2020-1, 3762-3, 4379, 4382, 4689 and Adm. 7/707-8). Includes correspondence between Flinders and the Admiralty re the Investigator, his exploration of the coast of Australia and his time on Mauritius; correspondence between the Admiralty and the French Government concerning Flinders; despatches from Governor King; official correspondence re the release of Flinders from Mauritius and the recovery of his journal; and three letters written by Sir Joseph Banks 1806 re botanical and mineral specimens collected by Joseph Brown and the sketches of Ferdinand Bauer. Also included are two copies of Flinders unpublished manuscript "A narrative of the causes that prevented His Majesty's ship the Investigator from completing the examination and discovery of the Coasts of Australia..., July 1806", 332, lxxiv p.
- Notes:
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- Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
- National Library of Australia holds microfilm master.
- Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M444.
- Microfilm copy of originals held by the Public Record Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, England.
- Cited In:
- Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 62, p. 37.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1801-1812
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