Copy of a despatch from ... Sir John Franklin to Lord Glenelg, dated 7th October 1837, relative to the present system of convict discipline in Van Diemen's Land
- Bib ID:
- 1843846
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847
- Description:
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- Hobart Town : reprinted by William Gore Elliston, 1838
- 110, 20 pages ; 35 cm.
- Notes:
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- Originally published: London, "ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 26th April, 1838".
- "The extremely rare Hobart edition of the highly important Franklin paper published as a parliamentary Paper in London in April 1838. Ferguson remarks that this paper 'contains an enormous amount of detailed information with regard to convict discipline, prefaced by Franklin's views thereof' (Ferguson). Added to this dispatch is one of Maconochie's seminal papers, among his earliest published reflections on convict management. All copies of the Hobart edition of the Franklin dispatch recorded by Ferguson are associated with the Maconochie paper and, indeed, they were issued together in wrappers as one volume" - New Century Antiquarian Books Catalogue 12 (July 2002) item [19]
- Bound with: Report on the state of prison discipline in Van Diemen's Land, etc. / by Captain Maconochie. Hobart Town : reprinted by William Gore Elliston, 1838.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 2507
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- Also Titled:
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- Convict discipline, Van Diemen's Land
- Convict discipline in Van Diemen's Land
- Papers : convict discipline, Van Diemen's Land
- Communications relating to convict discipline in Van Diemen's Land
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- Since 1888 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Publication date:
- 1838
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