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- 1802-1803 (Produção)
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1 volume, measuring about 27 x 24 x 9 cm, containing two title-leaves, an index, and 238 letters and other papers pasted onto guards, interspersed with blank leaves (four after the index and four after the second title-leaf). One of the title-leaves is at the beginning, followed by the index; the other is between Nos. 112 and 113. 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 In later life he concentrated on antiquarian pursuits, amassing a valuable collection of historical documents and autographs, as well as a substantial library which was eventually dispersed in a series of sales.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.
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See the general note under O.13.1. The following document was removed from the volume before it came to the Library. Its current location is shown in brackets.
Copy of a letter from Hudson Gurney, 7 Dec. 1803 (TURN II K1/3).
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On the spine is stamped ‘JAN.–DEC. | 1802–1803’. There are two title-leaves, one for each year, but only one index. Turner has marked many of the letters with the date of his reply, and added pencil dates at the head of most of the letters which are either undated or dated at the end. The book contains one letter from 1801 (No. 50).
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The documents are numbered in the order in which they stand. Nos. 50, 114, 161, and 200 have each been placed among letters of the wrong year.
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- inglês
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Nine loose documents (Nos. 6, 25, 31, 117, 135, 149, 165, 193, and 199) 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 2 pages; a ‘folded sheet’ is a sheet of paper folded once, comprising 2 leaves and 4 pages.
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2021.