Item 13.9 - Correspondence of Dawson Turner

Zona de identificação

Código de referência

O./13.9

Título

Correspondence of Dawson Turner

Data(s)

  • 1811 (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Item

Dimensão e suporte

1 volume, measuring about 27 x 24 x 6 cm, containing a title-leaf, an index, four blank leaves, and 107 letters and other papers pasted onto guards. The volume also contains a number of botanical specimens (see Nos. 35, 48a, 61, 83, and 85a). There is aread more

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Nome do produtor

(1775-1858)

História biográfica

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

História do arquivo

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, 10 Feb. 1811.
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Âmbito e conteúdo

On the spine is stamped ‘CORRESPONDENCE | JAN.–DEC. | 1811’. Turner has marked some of the letters with the date of reply. The contents include one letter (No. 52) written in 1810.

Sistema de arranjo

The documents are numbered in the order in which they stand.

Zona de condições de acesso e utilização

Idioma do material

  • inglês

Características físicas e requisitos técnicos

One loose document, No. 95, has been removed from the volume for safe-keeping, as has a small parchment bookmark found in it.

Zona das notas

Identificador(es) alternativo(s)

Preferred form of reference

O.13.9

Datas de criação, revisão, eliminação

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