James Montagu Smith journals, ca. 1858-1868
James Montagu Smith journals, ca. 1858-1868
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Date
1851-1868
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7871
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0.05 metres of textual material (4 volumes) - manuscript
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Fonds
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Microfilm : CY 4916, frames 1-279
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Smith’s journals provide his first-hand account as a young sailor on a convict transport, the Sir Robert Seppings, to Hobart in 1852; imprisonment in Hobart for insubordination aboard ship; and a further voyage on the same vessel to transfer prisoners from Norfolk Island to Port Arthur. His desertion from the ship with six others while at anchor in...
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James Montagu Smith journals, ca. 1858-1868
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Published information
Published as Send the boy to sea : the memoirs of a sailor on the goldfields / by James Montagu Smith ; edited by Peter Cuffley. Noble Park, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2001
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Mrs Jean Truebridge, January 2009
Collection history
Smith’s four notebooks passed to his eldest daughter, Viola Smith, who bequeathed them to her niece, the granddaughter of James Montagu Smith, Jean Truebridge (née Smith). The volumes were in Jean Truebridge’s possession from 1940 until she presented them to the Mitchell Library in December 2008. During this time, the journals were transcribed by T...
Administrative / Biographical history
James Montagu Smith was born in London in 1836 and went to sea in 1851, at the age of fourteen. By his twenty-first birthday in August 1857, he had made three return journeys from England to Australia, including two via Cape Horn and one via Hong Kong. At some time between 1858 and 1868 Smith wrote his memoirs of the period 1851-1857 in four notebo...
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MLMSS 7871
Record Identifier
1LjR6Nb9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1LjR6Nb9
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Reference code
844228
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