Item 13.5 - Correspondence of Dawson Turner

Identity area

Reference code

O./13.5

Title

Correspondence of Dawson Turner

Date(s)

  • 1807 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 volume, measuring about 27 x 24 x 6 cm, containing a title-leaf, an index, four blank leaves, and 135 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 area

Name of creator

(1775-1858)

Biographical history

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 bankingread more

Archival history

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 are unknown.

Letter from L. W. Dillwyn, 25 Jan. 1807.
Letter from L. W. Dillwyn, 28 Jan. 1807.
Letter from L. W.read more

Content and structure area

Scope and content

On the spine is stamped ‘CORRESPONDENCE | JAN.–DEC. | 1807’. Turner has marked many of the letters with the date of his reply. The volume contains one letter (No. 119) which is probably from 1801.

System of arrangement

The documents are numbered in the order in which they stand. In one case different numbers were mistakenly given to parts of the same document when the contents were originally numbered. The superfluous number (No. 26) is now marked ‘Number not used’.

Conditions of access and use area

Language of material

  • English
  • German
  • Latin

Notes area

Alternative identifier(s)

Preferred form of reference

O.13.5

Rules and/or conventions used

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.

Dates of creation revision deletion

This description was created by A. C. Green in 2021.