Letter from Johann Reinhold Forster to a publisher in Leipzig, 30 August 1781, with transcription, c...
Letter from Johann Reinhold Forster to a publisher in Leipzig, 30 August 1781, with transcription, ca. 1939?
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August 1781
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MLMSS 7910
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German
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0.01 metres of textual material
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The holograph letter written in German, with Kurrent or Zutterlin script (with English transcript translation) is written to a publisher and refers to his forthcoming publication of a German translation of Cook's 3rd voyage.
He states that the required title of the book `Result of a voyage of discovery in the South Sea which was carried out in t...
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Letter from Johann Reinhold Forster to a publisher in Leipzig, 30 August 1781, with transcription, ca. 1939?
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Transferred from the Manuscripts Collection Af 34/4, Sept. 2009
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Purchased from Maggs Bros, January 1939
Administrative / Biographical history
Johann Reinhold Forster, author and naturalist, was born on 22 October 1729 at Dirschau (Tschew), Polish Prussia. His writings on natural history made him known in scientific circles, where he won the acquaintanceship of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander and was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1772. When Banks refused to sail on James Co...
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MLMSS 7910
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94RxNqw1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/94RxNqw1
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873560
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