Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1814–1815 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 volume, measuring about 27 x 24 x 10 cm, containing two title-leaves, two indexes (one for each year), eight blank leaves (four after the tables of contents and four after the second title-page), and 228 letters and other papers pasted onto guards. One… read more
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Dawson Turner was born and spent much of his life at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. He was admitted as an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1793, but returned to Yarmouth before graduating, in order to take his place in the family banking… read more
Repository
Archival history
See the general note under O.13.1. The following letters were removed from the volume before it came to the Library. Their current locations, where known, are shown in brackets.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 25 Jan. 1814.
Letter from Joseph Hooker, 18 Feb.… read more
Content and structure area
Scope and content
On the spine is stamped ‘CORRESPONDENCE | JAN.–DEC. | 1814–1815’. Turner has marked some of the letters with the date of reply.
System of arrangement
The documents are numbered in the order in which they stand. In a few cases different numbers were mistakenly given to parts of the same document when the contents were originally numbered. These superfluous numbers (Nos. 7, 17, and 131) are now marked ‘Number not used’.
Conditions of access and use area
Language of material
- English
- French
- German
- Latin
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
One loose document (No. 47) has been removed from the volume for safe-keeping.
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Preferred form of reference
Dates of creation revision deletion
This description was created by A. C. Green in 2021.