Collection 02: William Bradley journal titled `A Voyage to New South Wales', December 1786-May 1792,...
Collection 02: William Bradley journal titled `A Voyage to New South Wales', December 1786-May 1792,...
Collection 02: William Bradley journal titled `A Voyage to New South Wales', December 1786-May 1792, compiled ca. 1802
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Date
December 1786-May 1792, compiled ca. 1802
Call Numbers
Safe 1/14
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Physical Description
Contents
1 volume of textual material - manuscript
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Level of description
Sub-fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Digitised
Photocopy : A 3631
Finding aids
Read the transcription here: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D02131/a138.html
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Scope and Contents
Contents
MAPS
This collection includes 14 manuscript maps titled [Bradley's manuscript charts] [cartographic material] / By William Bradley located at SAFE/MT4 140/1792/1.
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Full title
Collection 02: William Bradley journal titled `A Voyage to New South Wales', December 1786-May 1792, compiled ca. 1802
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 823591...
Date note
This journal was probably compiled some years after the events it records. It seems to be a fair copy compiled after 1802. Page 48 bears a watermark for the year 1802.
Published information
This journal has been published in facsimile: William Bradley, A voyage to New South Wales (Sydney: Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, 1969).
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Francis Edwards, Antiquarian Booksellers, for 1,200 pounds, in August 1924.
The manuscript was first offered to the Mitchell Library for purchase in 1923. The offer was made by Sir Charles Russell (solicitor) acting on behalf of an unnamed client. At this time the manuscript was declined because the price (1,800 pounds) was co...
Exhibited in
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- Painting the Pacific
- Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection
- Artist colony: drawing Sydney’s nature
- UNESCO Six
State Library of New South Wales (1 June - 28 November, 1998)
State Library of New South Wales (January 2002 - April 2002)
Jan 2003 - Mar 2004
State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: `Entrance to Port Jackson 27 January 1788', drawing opp. p. 65 ; a3461010
State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - May, 2019)
Administrative / Biographical history
William Bradley served in the Royal Navy for 42 years. He sailed with the First Fleet in May 1787 following his appointment to First Lieutenant on board HMS Sirius in October 1786.
Bradley's journal records his impressions of the colony and reflects his particular interest in Aboriginal people and natural history.
After arriving at Port Jacks...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
Safe 1/14
Record Identifier
YEGmpNKn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YEGmpNKn
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Reference code
412904
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