Unidad documental simple 13.6 - Correspondence of Dawson Turner

1 volume, measuring about 27 x 24 x 6 cm, containing a title-leaf, an index, two blank leaves, and 139 letters and other papers pasted onto guards. The volume also contains a number of botanical specimens (see Nos. 30, 62, 80a, and 96). 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.

Letter from W. J. Hooker, 23 Jan. 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 13 Feb. 1808.
Letter from James Turner, 1 Mar. 1808 (TURN II II1/1).
Letter from J. E. Smith, 19 Mar. 1808.
Copy of a letter from Hudson Gurney, 23 Mar. 1808 (TURN II K1/10).
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 13 Apr. 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 19 Apr. 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 24 Apr. 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 16 May 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 19 May 1808.
Letter from Maria Turner, 24 May 1808.
Letter from Mary Turner, 2 June 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 13 June 1808.
Letter from Samuel Goodenough, 21 June 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 3 July 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 17 July 1808.
Letter from William Borrer, 21 July 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 22 July 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 29 July 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 9 Aug. 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 4 Sept. 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 17 Sept. 1808.
Letter from Elizabeth Turner (Dawson Turner’s mother), 21 Nov. 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 13 Dec. 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 23 Dec. 1808.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 31 Dec. 1808.

The letter from William Borrer was probably removed by mistake along with the adjacent letters.

The volume Index also lists letters from the following:

Viscount Valentia, 25 Jan.
N. J. Winch, 18 Dec.

But it is uncertain whether these are references to letters which were formerly in the volume, since there is no indication that anything has been removed from the places where they would be expected to be. The first, in fact, almost certainly relates to O.13.5, No. 13, dated 25 Jan. 1807, which is not referred to in the Index to that volume.

In addition, the volume Index lists a letter of 19 May from Elizabeth Turner (Dawson Turner's daughter) and an undated letter from her and ‘H.T.’, while the General Index lists a letter of 1808 from Elizabeth and a letter of 19 May from Elizabeth and Harriet.