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- July–Dec. 1820 (Production)
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1 volume, measuring about 27 x 24 x 8 cm, containing a title-leaf, four blank leaves, and 130 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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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 In later life he concentrated on antiquarian pursuits, amassing a valuable collection of historical documents and autographs, as well as a substantial library which was eventually dispersed in a series of sales.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. The following documents were removed from the volume before it came to the Library. Their current locations, where known, are shown in brackets.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 10 July.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 13 July.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 17 July.
Letter from Elizabeth Turner, 17 July (TURN III A21/13).
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 19 July.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 20 July.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 22 July.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 24 July.
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 24 July.
Letter from Elizabeth Turner, 25 July (TURN III A21/15).
Letter from Elizabeth Turner and W. J. Hooker, 29 July (TURN III A21/16).
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 31 July.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 3 Aug.
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 6 Aug.
Letter from Mary Turner, 6 Aug. (TURN II KK4/27).
Letter from Elizabeth and Mary Turner, 7 Aug. (TURN III A21/17).
Letter from Francis Cohen, 9 Aug.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 12 Aug.
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 15 Aug.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 17 Aug.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 23 Aug.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 25 Aug.
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 26 Aug.
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 2 Sept.
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 8 Sept.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 10 Sept. (TURN II K1/32).
Letter from Francis Cohen, 12 Sept.
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 17 Sept.
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 23 Sept.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 1 Oct. (TURN II K1/33).
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 7 Oct.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 10 Oct. (TURN II K1/34?).
Letter from Francis Cohen, 18 Oct.
Letter from Francis Cohen, 23 Oct.
Letter from Mary Turner, 23 Oct. (TURN II KK4/28).
Letter from Francis Cohen, Oct.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 13 Nov. (TURN II K1/35).
Letter from Charlotte Turner, 19 Nov. (TURN II BB1/1).
Letter from T. F. Dibdin, 25 Nov.
Portrait of Edward Rigby, by Mary Turner.
Letter from the Earl of Gosford, 30 Nov.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 30 Nov. (TURN II K1/36).
Letter from Francis Cohen, 2 Dec.
Letter from Charlotte Turner, 2 Dec. (TURN II BB1/2).
Letter from Francis Cohen, 23 Dec.
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On the spine is stamped ‘CORRESPONDENCE | JUL.–DEC. | 1820’.
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The documents are numbered in the order in which they stand. In two cases different numbers were mistakenly given to parts of the same document when the contents were originally numbered. The superfluous numbers (Nos. 74 and 93) are now marked ‘Number not used.’
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2021.