Identitet
Referenskod
Titel
Datum
- 1809 (Skapelse)
Beskrivningsnivå
Omfång och medium
1 volume, measuring 27 x 24 x 7 cm, containing a title-leaf, an index, two blank leaves, and 141 letters and other papers pasted onto guards. The volume also contains a number of botanical specimens (see No. 26). There is a stiff fly-leaf at the front and another at the back. Half-bound in light-brown leather and marbled paper.
Sammanhang
Arkivbildare
Biografiska anmärkningar
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 In later life he concentrated on antiquarian pursuits, amassing a valuable collection of historical documents and autographs, as well as a substantial library which was eventually dispersed in a series of sales.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.
Arkivinstitution
Arkivhistorik
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, 18 Jan. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 18 Feb. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 20 Mar. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 8 Apr. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 16 Apr. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 18 Apr. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 3 May 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 8 May 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 9 May 1809.
Letter from Maria Turner, 21 May 1809.
Letter from Mary Turner, 27 May 1809 (TURN II KK4/13).
Letter from Maria Turner, 29 May 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 1 June 1809.
Letter from Hudson Gurney, 22 June 1809 (TURN II K1/11).
Letter from James Turner, 17 July 1809 (TURN II II1/2).
Letter from James Turner, 22–23 July 1809 (TURN II II1/3).
Letter from Mary Anne Turner, July 1809 (TURN II LL1/1).
Letter from Harriet Turner, c. 26 July 1809 (TURN II I1/2).
Letter from Elizabeth Turner (Dawson Turner’s daughter), 26 July 1809 (TURN II S2/2).
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 1 Sept. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 21 Sept. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 9 Nov. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 22 Nov. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 4 Dec. 1809.
Letter from W. J. Hooker, 15 Dec. 1809.
The letter from Maria Turner dated 29 May is listed in the General Index (O.14.51) but not in the volume Index.
The reference in the volume Index to a letter from James Dalton dated 13 Jan. is apparently a mistaken reference to a sheet which forms part of No. 26. This error probably occurred because the inscription ‘No. 13’ at the head of the sheet was mistaken for ‘Jan. 13’ and the letters ‘T.O.’ (‘turn over’) at the foot were mistaken for ‘J. D.’
Förvärvsinformation
Innehåll och struktur
Omfattning och innehåll
On the spine is stamped ‘CORRESPONDENCE | JAN.–DEC. | 1809’. Turner has marked many of the letters with the date of reply.
Bevarande- och gallringsvärdering och schemaläggning
Periodiseringar
Uppordningssystem
The documents are numbered in the order in which they stand. Three documents (Nos. 114a, 115a, and 115b) were not given numbers when the contents were originally numbered.
Villkor för tillgång och användning
Villkor för åtkomst
Villkor för reproduktion
Materialspråk
- engelska
- tyska
- latin
Materialskript
Språk och skriptananmärkningar
Fysiska egenskaper och tekniska krav
Sökhjälpsmedel
Besläktat material
Existens och placering av original
Existensen och placering av kopior
Relaterade beskrivningsenheter
Anmärkningar
Alternativt/alternativa signum
Preferred form of reference
Sökingångar
Sökingångar på ämne
Sökingångar på plats
Sökingångar på namn
Sökingångar för handlingstyp
Beskrivningssignum
Institutionssignum
Regler och/eller standarder som används
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.
Status
Detaljnivå för beskrivning
Datum för tillkomst revision borttagande
This description was created by A. C. Green in 2021.