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- 1807 (Produção)
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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.
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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 In later life he concentrated on antiquarian pursuits, amassing a valuable collection of historical documents and autographs, as well as a substantial library which was eventually dispersed in a series of sales.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 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. Dillwyn, 3 Feb. 1807.
Letter from L. W. Dillwyn, 7 Mar. 1807.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 11 Mar. 1807.
Letter from Edward Forster, 10 June 1807.
Letter from Augustus Maimburg, 23 June 1807.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 4 Sept. 1807.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 11 Oct. 1807.
Letter from James Dalton, 19 Dec. 1807.
Letter from Elizabeth Turner (Dawson Turner’s mother), 27 Dec. 1807.
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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.
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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’.
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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.