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King Family - Records

Title
King Family - Records
Repository
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
Reference
ML MSS 3447
Date Range
1831 - 1903
Description

Philip Gidley King's journal kept while on the "Beagle" 1831-33 with later additions 1903; letters from C. Darwin 1854-69; reminiscences of C. Darwin 1831-6 written in 1892; autobiography 1894. Also Phillip Parker King's diary kept in New Zealand 1826; notes on natural history and surveying made on voyages of the "Adventure" and the "Beagle" 1826-30 and a letter from R. FitzRoy 1844.

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