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- Jan.–June 1820 (Production)
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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.
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Notice biographique
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 business.
For some years Turner's chief interest was botany, particularly mosses, and he published several works on the subject and corresponded with many of the notable botanists of his day. In later life he concentrated on antiquarian pursuits, amassing a valuable collection of historical documents and autographs, as well as a substantial library which was eventually dispersed in a series of sales. He was a Fellow of various learned bodies, including the Royal Society, the Linnaean Society, and the Society of Antiquaries.
In 1796 Turner married Mary Palgrave, by whom he had eight surviving children. Mary Turner and her daughters were talented amateur artists; they were tutored in drawing by John Sell Cotman and also mastered the arts of etching and lithography. Between them they produced a significant number of sketches and prints, especially portraits and architectural studies, examples of which were often used by their father to embellish his books.
Histoire archivistique
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 are listed in the index, but are not in the volume, having probably been removed from it before it came to the Library. Their current locations, where known, are shown in brackets.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 1 Jan. (TURN II K1/27)
Letter from Francis Cohen, 4 Jan.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 10 Jan.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 26 Jan.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 31 Jan.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 1 Feb.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 2 Feb.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 8 Feb.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 9 Feb.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 11 Feb. (TURN II K1/28)
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 15 Feb. (TURN II K1/29)
Letter from Francis Cohen, 18 Feb.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 28 Feb.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 3 Mar.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 8 Mar.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 22 Mar. (TURN II K1/30)
Letter from Francis Cohen, 24 Mar.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 27 Mar.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 29 Mar.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 30 Mar.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 1 Apr.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 4 Apr.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 6 Apr.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 11 Apr.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 15 Apr.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 18 Apr.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 20 Apr. (TURN II K1/31)
Letter from Elizabeth Turner, 20 Apr. (TURN III A21/10)
Letter from Francis Cohen, 24 Apr.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 28 Apr.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 31 May
Letter from Francis Cohen, 2 May
Letter from Elizabeth Turner, 3 May (TURN III A21/11)
Letter from Francis Cohen, 8 May
Letter from Francis Cohen, 17 May
Letter from Francis Cohen, 17 May (sic)
Letter from Francis Cohen, 26 May
Letter from Francis Cohen, 30 May
Letter from Francis Cohen, 5 June
Letter from Elizabeth Turner, 5 June (TURN III A21/12)
Letter from Francis Cohen, 12 June
Letter from Francis Cohen, 18 June
Letter from Francis Cohen, 26 June
Letter from Francis Cohen, 30 June
Twelve of the letters in the volume (Nos. 5, 17, 26, 33, 37, 66, 68, 79, 82, 86, 96, and 116) and four of the enclosures, etc. (Nos. 7a, 50, 67a, and 109), are not mentioned in the index. One of the letters (No. 26) does not appear to belong in this volume.
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On the spine is stamped ‘CORRESPONDENCE | JAN.–JUNE | 1820’. The contents are described individually.
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The documents are numbered in the order in which they stand. Four documents (Nos. 7a, 19a, 60a, and 67a) were not given numbers when the contents were originally numbered. Three documents (Nos. 15, 86, and 93) are out of chronological order, for reasons noted in their descriptions.
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One loose document (No. 4) and the first leaf of the index, which is also loose, have been removed from the volume for safe-keeping.
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In descriptions of ‘Extent and medium’ a ‘single sheet’ is a single unfolded leaf of paper comprising two pages; a ‘folded sheet’ is a sheet of paper folded in half, comprising two leaves and four pages. Folded sheets have been described as such even in cases where most of one leaf has been cut off.
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2021.