Identity area
Reference code
TURN III/A
Title
Correspondence of Dawson Turner
Date(s)
- 1811–51 (Creation)
Level of description
Class
Extent and medium
36 files
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
(1775-1864)
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
These letters were formerly in the volumes containing the main series of Dawson Turner’s correspondence (MSS O.13.1–32 and O.14.1–51 in this Library), from which they were removed in or about the year 1890 in the manner described in the general note on ‘Archival history’. The knife was wielded hastily, and often more or less was removed than intended. In some cases one or more adjacent sheets were cut through by mistake, these being either left loose in the volume or removed (cf. A1, A7, A17, A18, and A26), while sometimes strips of sheets were left in the gutter, the leaves of folded sheets often being thereby separated.