Collection 03: Ralph Clark journal kept on the Friendship during a voyage to Botany Bay and Norfolk...
Collection 03: Ralph Clark journal kept on the Friendship during a voyage to Botany Bay and Norfolk...
Collection 03: Ralph Clark journal kept on the Friendship during a voyage to Botany Bay and Norfolk Island, and on the Gorgon returning to England, 9 March 1787 - 31 December 1787, 1 January 1788 - 10 March 1788, 15 February 1790 - 2 January 1791, 25 January 1791 - 17 June 1792
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1787-1788, 1790-1792
Call Numbers
Safe 1/27a
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts and Clippings
Physical Description
Contents
4 volumes of textual material (2 boxes) - manuscript
Clippings
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Digitised : This item has been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
Finding aids
Read the transcription here: http://archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00018/a262.html
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Volume 1: 9 March 1787 - 31 December 1787
Volume 2: 1 January 1788 - 10 March 1788
Volume 3: 15 February 1790 - 27 December 1790
Volume 4: 28 December 1790 - 17 June 1792
Includes newscutting from the Sydney Morning Herald, 26 September, 1891.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Collection 03: Ralph Clark journal kept on the Friendship during a voyage to Botany Bay and Norfolk Island, and on the Gorgon returning to England, 9 March 1787 - 31 December 1787, 1 January 1788 - 10 March 1788, 15 February 1790 - 2 January 1791, 25 January 1791 - 17 June 1792
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no: Album ID : 823869...
Published information
Published in transcription: Paul Fidlon and R.J. Ryan (eds), The journal and letters of Lt Ralph Clark, 1787-1792 (Sydney: Australian Documents Library, 1981).
Contextual Information
Source
Acquired by descent from the Trevan family, at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge auction, 1914.
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
Ralph Clark, 2nd Lieutenant of Marines (promoted First Lieutenant in February 1789 in New South Wales), had undertaken the voyage to New South Wales in the hope of gaining promotion.
The facts of Clark's life are few and elusive. We know his birthday - 30 March - because he mentions it in his diary, but we do not know the precise year of his b...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
Safe 1/27a
Record Identifier
YzOg8zD9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOg8zD9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
412905
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