John Gould - Letterbook, 26 December 1840-14 December 1846, together with diary of Elizabeth Gould,...
John Gould - Letterbook, 26 December 1840-14 December 1846, together with diary of Elizabeth Gould, 20 August-29 September 1839
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Date
20 August 1839-14 December 1846
Call Numbers
SAFE/A 1763 (Safe 1/270)
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Physical Description
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0.03 metres of textual material (1 volume) - 33.5 x 30.0 cm - manuscript
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Out of copyright
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Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 473, frames 393-506 (A 1763, filed at Safe 1/270)
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Letterbook containing copies of letters in connection with the shipping and sale of Gould's 'Birds of Australia'. Not in Goulds handwriting, believed to have been copied by Gould's secretary, E.C. Prince. Correspondents include Rev. T.J. Ewing, John Fairfax, Hack, Watson & Co, George Bennett, J.Stokes and Robert C. Gunn. In his letters to George B...
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Full title
John Gould - Letterbook, 26 December 1840-14 December 1846, together with diary of Elizabeth Gould, 20 August-29 September 1839
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Notes
General note
Transcriptions of letters can be found in 'John Gould, the Bird Man: correspondence, with a chronology of his life and works', edited and compiled by Gordon C. Saur (held at N 598.092/2 SET).
Contextual Information
Source
Letterbook purchased from Sotheran in May 1931 ; diary purchased from Sotheran in August 1934.
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Administrative / Biographical history
John Gould, zoologist and ornithologist was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England in 1804. In 1829 he married talented artist Elizabeth Coxon who was born in 1804 at Ramsgate, England. They had four children when in 1838 he resolved to extend his ornithological studies by visiting Australia. It is during this time in Australia that the Goulds worked...
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SAFE/A 1763 (Safe 1/270)
Record Identifier
nGm4Xw0Y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGm4Xw0Y
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Reference code
457781
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