Robert Edward Buffett - Journal, 1881-1887
Robert Edward Buffett - Journal, 1881-1887
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]
Call Numbers
PMB 426
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
microfilm reel 35 mm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Microfilm : PMB 426
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The journal gives an account of a whaling voyage in the New Bedford bark Canton from 1881 to 1885 and in the bark Petrel in 1887. Buffett signed on the Canton at Norfolk Island. The bark subsequently visited many islands in the Pacific
Alternative Titles
Full title
Robert Edward Buffett - Journal, 1881-1887
Authors, Artists and Contributors
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Author / Artists
Notes
General note
PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 426
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Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
Robert Edward Buffett was a Norfolk Islanders, who died on Norfolk Island in 1953 at the age of 90. The book in which by a Portuguese or Brazilian seaman, Manuel Jose. Some pages in Portuguese are in his hand at the beginning of the book, which he presented to Buffett
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PMB 426
Record Identifier
92eVNwPY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVNwPY
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Reference code
440668
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