Class A - Correspondence of Dawson Turner

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.