Charles Hook Letterbook, 1810 May 14 - 1815 Mar. 14
Charles Hook Letterbook, 1810 May 14 - 1815 Mar. 14
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 109
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Reference Code
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Physical Description
Contents
1 volume of textual material - photocopies
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Microfilm : MAV/FM3/64
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Letters from Charles Hook to Robert and John Campbell and other Sydney business men giving details of Hook's trusteeship of the firm of Campbell and Co., including i.a., references to various business transactions, shipping and ship building activities, Whaling and sealing industries particularly concerning Macquarie Island, difficulties encountere...
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Full title
Charles Hook Letterbook, 1810 May 14 - 1815 Mar. 14
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Photocopies of copies of letters
Originals held in private ownership
Keyword subject:
Liquidation--New South Wales
Description source
Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (4-184C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
Charles Hook, 1762?-1826, merchant, arrived in New South Wales on 25 June 1808 as a partner with Robert Campbell in a distillery firm. Between 1810 and 1815, while Robert Campbell was in England, Hook was in sole charge of the Sydney company which was dissolved in 1816 due to its outstanding debts. Hook retired to his land grant, Denbeigh, in the d...
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 109
Record Identifier
9arp6D2n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9arp6D2n
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Reference code
422609
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