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Thomas Livingstone Mitchell - Records

Title
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell - Records
Repository
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
Date Range
1811 - 1855
Description

Personal papers, correspondence and documents 1811-55; diaries 1814-27, 1839, 1841-47, 1850-55 (c27 volumes); memoranda 1826-29, (2 volumes); fieldbooks and sketchbooks 1828-35, 1832, 1840, 1846, 1852, 1854 (c12 volumes); journals of exploring expeditions 1831-32, 1835-36 (c4 volumes); meteorological journals 1836 (1 volume); astronomical observations of an expedition 1846 (1 volume); journal of an exploratory expedition to tropical Australia 1846 (1 volume); letters and notebooks 1822 (1 volume); art sketchbook 1822 (1 volume); unpublished typescript entitled 'Life of Sir Thomas Mitchell' by John Henry Macartney Abbott 1913. See also Mitchell's correspondence with William Buckland contained within the microfilmed papers and correspondence of J. Franklin.

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