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Joseph Banks - Records

Title
Joseph Banks - Records
Repository
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
Reference
MS 989
Date Range
1745 - 1814
Description

Fourteen letters (1775-1814) mainly to Sir Joseph Banks, from the following correspondents: Count von Rumford, Dr. William Anderson, John Hawkesworth, W. Phipps, Dr. James Lind, Georg Forster, Capt. James King, J. R. Forster, Dr. Daniel Solander, Capt. Charles Clerke, Earl of Sandwich, Dr. Andrew Kippis and William Wales. Also documents, 1745 and 1759, appointing John Byron as lieutenant on H.M.S. St. George and captain on H.M.S. Fame.

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52 leaves
Access
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