Item 13.19 - Correspondence of Dawson Turner

Identity area

Reference code

O./13.19

Title

Correspondence of Dawson Turner

Date(s)

  • Jan.–June 1820 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

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

(1775-1858)

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 bankingread more

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 inread 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.

Notes area

Alternative identifier(s)

Preferred form of reference

O.13.19

Dates of creation revision deletion

This description was created by A. C. Green in 2021.