Item 13.3 - Correspondence of Dawson Turner

1 volume, measuring about 27 x 24 x 10 cm, containing two title-leaves, an index, and 249 letters and other papers pasted onto guards, interspersed with blank leaves (four after the index and four after the second title page). One of the title-pages is at the beginning, followed by the index; the other is between Nos. 98 and 99. There is a stiff fly-leaf at the front and another at the back. Half-bound in light-brown leather and marbled paper.

See the general note under O.13.1. The following letters were removed from the volume before it came to the Library. Their current locations, where known, are shown in brackets (NRO = Norfolk Record Office).

Letter from J. S. Cotman, 9 May 1804.
Letter from J. S. Cotman, 18 Aug. 1804 (NRO, MC 2487/1).
Letter from Mary Turner, 18 Dec. 1804 (TURN II KK4/1).
Letter from Mary Turner, 19 and 24 Dec. 1804 (TURN II KK4/2).
Letter from William Palgrave, 22 Dec. 1804 (TURN II W1/1).
Letter from Francis Turner, 24 Feb. 1805 (TURN II GG1/1).
Letter from Mary Turner, 31 May 1805 (TURN II KK4/3).
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 29 June 1805 (TURN II K1/4).
Letter from Maria Turner, 1805 (TURN II L1/1).
Letter from Mary Turner, 23–24 Sept. 1805 (TURN II KK4/4).
Letter from Mary Turner, 24–25 Sept. 1805 (TURN II KK4/5).
Letter from Mary Turner, 26–27 Sept. 1805 (TURN II KK4/6).
Letter from Mary Turner, 19 Oct. 1805 (TURN II KK4/7).
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 20 Dec. 1805 (TURN II K1/5).
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 28 Dec. 1805.

The letter from Francis Turner was probably removed by mistake instead of the letter from Cotman which follows it (No. 125).

On the spine is stamped ‘CORRESPONDENCE | JAN.–DEC. | 1804–1805’. 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 volume contains one letter from 1802 (No. 113) and one from 1806 (No. 187).