Charles Grimes letter received from Matthew Flinders, March 1807
Charles Grimes letter received from Matthew Flinders, March 1807
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Full title
Date
March 1807
Call Numbers
SAFE/MLMSS 7608 (Safe 1/248)
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Reference Code
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Physical Description
Contents
Textual Records (1 folder) - manuscript
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Microfilm : filed at Safe 1/248)
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Full title
Charles Grimes letter received from Matthew Flinders, March 1807
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Author / Artists
Notes
General note
A copy of this letter is included in Matthew Flinders' private letterbook, volume 2, 1806-1810: letter number 24, dated 24 March 1807 (ML Safe 1/56 ; CY 1090). See The James Fairfax Matthew Flinders Electronic Archive.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Mrs Elizabeth Prosser, 1993
Administrative / Biographical history
Charles Grimes (1772-1858), Deputy Surveyor-General of New South Wales, arrived in Sydney in 1791 and proceeded to Norfolk Island. Recalled to Sydney in 1794, he eventually replaced August Alt as Surveyor-General in 1803.
In 1803 as a member of the Cumberland expedition to Port Phillip under Lieutenant Charles Robbins, he led the first party of...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/MLMSS 7608 (Safe 1/248)
Record Identifier
94R7Eq61
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/94R7Eq61
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Reference code
447135
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