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Date(s)
- Jan.–June 1820 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 volume, measuring about 27 x 24 x 8 cm, containing a title-leaf, an index, four blank leaves, and 121 letters and other papers pasted onto guards. There is a stiff fly-leaf at the front and another at the back. Half-bound in light-brown leather and marbled paper.
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. No. 1, written in 1830 but misdated 1820, was bound in this volume by mistake. The following documents were removed from the volume before it came to the Library. Their current locations, where known, are shown in… read more
Content and structure area
Scope and content
On the spine is stamped ‘CORRESPONDENCE | JAN.–JUNE | 1820’.
System of arrangement
The documents are numbered in the order in which they stand.
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Dates of creation revision deletion
This description was created by A. C. Green in 2021.