Series 12: Copies, extracts and summaries of letters written by James Cook, Charles Clerke and other...
Series 12: Copies, extracts and summaries of letters written by James Cook, Charles Clerke and others, concerning the third Pacific voyage in HM Ships Resolution and Discovery, 1779-1780
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1779-1780
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SAFE/Banks Papers/Series 12 (Safe 1/457)
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11 documents
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James Cook, commander of HMS Resolution, left England in July 1776 on his third and final Pacific voyage (1776-1780). His consort, HMS Discovery, under the command of Charles Clerke, set sail in August 1776. The two ships met at the Cape of Good Hope and continued the voyage together.
Cook and Clerke made passage to the north by way of Kergu...
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Series 12: Copies, extracts and summaries of letters written by James Cook, Charles Clerke and others, concerning the third Pacific voyage in HM Ships Resolution and Discovery, 1779-1780
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The documents in this series, previously located at ML A78-1, were purchased in 1884 from Lord Brabourne by Sir Saul Samuel, the Agent-General for New South Wales. They were transferred to the Mitchell Library in 1910 and were part of the accession which became known as the Brabourne collection.
Some of these documents include the original f...
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SAFE/Banks Papers/Series 12 (Safe 1/457)
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YezdZGp9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YezdZGp9
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1290495
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