Stuk 13.28 - Correspondence of Dawson Turner

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O./13.28

Titel

Correspondence of Dawson Turner

Datum(s)

  • July–Dec. 1824 (Vervaardig)

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Omvang en medium

1 volume, measuring about 27 x 24 x 8 cm, containing a title-leaf, four blank leaves, and 158 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

Naam van de archiefvormer

Turner, Dawson (1775–1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary
(1775–1858)

Biografie

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 In later life he concentrated on antiquarian pursuits, amassing a valuable collection of historical documents and autographs, as well as a substantial library which was eventually dispersed in a series of sales.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.

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Geschiedenis van het archief

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 Mary Turner, 2 July.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 11 July.
Letter from Mary Anne Turner 13 July.
Letter from Francis Palgrave, 15 July.
Letter from Elizabeth Palgrave, 22 July.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 23 July.
Letter from Francis Palgrave, 23 July.
Letter from Francis Palgrave, 5 Aug.
Letter from Elizabeth Palgrave, 20 Aug.
Letter from Francis Palgrave, 3 Sept.
Letter from Mary Turner, 22 Sept.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 26 Sept.
Letter from Duke of Sussex, 27 Sept.
Letter from M. E. Sherwill, 15 Oct.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 16 Oct.
Letter from W. H. Carr, 10 Nov.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 12 Nov.
Letter from Mary Turner, 12 Nov.
Letter from Mary Turner, 13 Nov.
Letter from Francis Palgrave, 15 Nov.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 28 Nov.
Letter from Elizabeth Palgrave, 28 Nov.
Letter from Maria Hooker, 1 Dec.
Letter from W. D. Hooker, 1 Dec.*
Letter from Harriet Turner, 15 Dec.
Letter from Francis Palgrave, 18 Dec.
Letter from Charles Lyell, 20 Dec.
Letter from Elizabeth Palgrave, 20 Dec.
Letter from Harriet Turner, 21 Dec.
Letter from Francis Palgrave, 20 Dec.
Letter from Mary Turner.

  • The general index contains a letter from W. D. Hooker with this date. The index for this volume states that the writer of this letter was a W. J. Hooker Junior, which appears to be incorrect.

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On the spine is stamped ‘CORRESPONDENCE | JUL.–DEC. | 1824’. See below for a description of the contents.

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Ordeningstelsel

The documents are numbered in the order in which they stand. Eight documents (Nos. 47a, 60a, 77a, 77b, 83a, 92a, 128a and 128b) were not given numbers when the contents were originally numbered.

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    Two loose documents (Nos. 18 and 98) have been removed from the volume for safe-keeping.

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    O.13.28

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    This description was created by Joanne Hill in 2026.

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