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The only port of call on the voyage was Bahia. Day to day occurrences on the ship are described. The illustrations include a watercolour drawing of the Eden as she lay at Gravesend 13 June 1842. Maps showing the route taken, a plan of Port Jackson and prospectus for the ship Eden, showing a plan of the ship and giving details of accommodation, etc. are inserted

Journal of a voyage from London to Sydney, on the ship Eden 13 June-4 November 1842 by Edmund Blacket

Logbook of H.M.S. Victory, Warrior, Endymion, Duke of Wellington and Northumberland, with lists of ships, maps and watercolour sketches included. The voyages concerned are: H.M.S. Victory - Portsmouth, 1-12 Aug. 1867. H.M.S. Warrior - home waters, Lisbon, Dublin, 13 Aug. 1867 - 21 May 1869. H.M.S. Endymion - Madeira, Bahia, Rio, Montevideo, Cape, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Lyttelton, Wellington, Auckland, Yokohama, Vancouver's Is., Honolulu, Valparaiso, Bahia and home, 23 May 1869 - 30 Nov. 1870. H.M.S. Duke of Wellington - Portsmouth, 1 Dec. 1870 - 24 Mar. 1871. H.M.S. Northumberland - Keyham to Madeira, Gibraltar, Vigo, Lisbon and return, Ireland, Clyde Moville, and Bearhaven, 25 Mar. 1871 - 28 July 1872

P. J. D. Hawker logbooks, 1 August 1867-2 July 1872

1. Bahia  Augt. 9. 1842 / The Convent of Santa Theresa
2. Bahia. Augt. 12th. 1842 / The Door of the Church of Corpo Santo ;  Slave girls with water &c
3. Sydney  Nov 9. 1842 / Military Hospital
4. Sydney. Nov 26. 1842 / The Government House from the Gardens
5. Sydney. Nov 18- 1842 / Scotch Church 
6. Paramatta. [i.e. Parramatta] Nov. 29. 1842 / St. John's Church
7. Sydney  Nov 1842 / Roman Catholic Cathedral. St. Mary's.
8. [Partial pencil sketch of St James Church, Sydney] / Dec 3
9. Sydney  Dec 5. 1842 / Baptist Chapel
10. Sydney. Dec 5. 1842 / Lodge in the Government Domain
11. Sydney. Dec 6. 1842 / Statue of Governor Bourke ;  Conduit in Macquarie Place
12. Sydney. Dec 6. 1842 / Fort Macquarie - from Dawe's Point
13. [St. Peter's, Cook's River] / Dec 24 (titled in later hand)
14. Sydney. Dec 7. 1842 / Fort Philip- & the Signal Staff
15. Sydney - Dec 9. 1842 / Police House on the Paramatta [i.e. Parramatta] Road. (corner of Newtown Rd.) [in later hand]
16. Sydney. Dec 16. 1842 / A cottage in Princes Street. (Mrs. Francis / E.T. Blacket lodged here) [in later hand]
17. Sydney. Dec. 19. 1842 / Methodist Chapel in Princes Street.
18. [Church, Haymarket] / March 22 
19. Sessions House Darlinghurst Sydney / Part of the jail in background [loose watercolour drawing, titled in pencil on reverse]

E. T. Blacket's sketch-book, 1842

Manuscript fair copy

A summary of events giving page numbers is at the beginning of each volume

The journal covers the voyage of William Cleveland and his brother James from Lowestoft to Launceston via Cape Verde Islands, the Cape of Good Hope and Capetown in their own schooner, the Mumford, in 1838, and subsequent experiences of William Cleveland after the death of his brother at Launceston. For a while he traded between Launceston, Adelaide and Port Phillip and in May 1839 joined in speculation with Messrs Henty & Co. and took a cargo to Mauritius where he arrived July 1839. He visited Ceylon and Calcutta before returning via Mauritius to Adelaide and Launceston. In April 1840 he sailed to Sydney where he sold the Mumford, visited the Hunter River District, Parramatta, the Illawarra district and Brisbane Water. In September, he sailed to the Bay of Islands on the Pybee, was on the Thames October-November 1840, returning to Sydney on the Nimrod in January 1841. He then made a trip to Java and the Cocos Islands on the Lorina, returning via Albany to Adelaide, Melbourne and finally Launceston. In April 1842, he left Launceston for Sydney on the Louisa, and sailed for London in the Palestine on 19 June 1842, arriving at Dover on 21 November, having spent some days at Bahia on the way.

The journal gives descriptions of various places he visited and their inhabitants, including the Aborigines and the Maoris, mentioning other vessels he meets on his voyages, and also several shipwrecks, including, that of the Parsee on the Troubridge Shaol in St Vincent's Gulf, Nov. 1838 and the barque Children off Portland Bay, May 1839

Vol. 1
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Vol. 2
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William Cleveland journal, 22 March 1838-22 November 1842

'Log of H.M.S. Victory commanded by Capt. G. Bowyear. kept by G.T. Wingfield, Midn. From December 18th 1868 to February 15th 1869', and logs of H.M.S. Bristol and Phoebe, 16 Feb. 1869 to 20 May 1870. Maps. The logs cover the voyages of H.M.S. Bristol from Plymouth to Barbados, Bermuda and return (Feb.-June 1869), then Plymouth to Madeira and Bahia (June-Aug. 1869);  also the voyage of H.M.S. Phoebe from Bahia to Rio, Monte Video, Cape of Good Hope, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Lyttleton, Wellington, Auckland, Yokohama, Vancouver Island (Aug. 1869 - May 1870). A newspaper obituary of Admiral Spencer Smyth is inserted opposite title page

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