THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Series Two: The Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820

Part 4: Correspondence and Papers Relating to Voyages of Discovery, 1767-1819, from the State Library of New South Wales

Detailed Listing

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SIR JOSEPH BANKS: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND MEMORANDA

Letters received by Banks from various persons, 1773-1819, [1884]

[198 documents]

Copies of letters received by various persons from Banks, 1782-1818 and undated

[136 documents]

Letter-press copies of letters received by various persons from Banks, 1782-1783 and undated

[11 documents]

Certificates and diplomas presented to Banks, 1785-1813

[9 documents]

‘Begging letters’ received by Banks from various persons, 1786-1808, [1884] and undated

[13 documents]

Correspondence with British Museum, 1788-1809

[9 documents]

Correspondence concerning a monument to Dr Samuel Johnson, 1791

[4 documents]

Extracts and abstracts of letters, 1771-1810, 1818 and undated

[11 documents]

Miscellaneous memoranda and other documents, 1778-1807

[25 documents]

Miscellaneous invoices and receipts, 1788-1805

[4 documents]

Indexes to correspondents compiled by Banks, 1768 and undated

[6 documents]

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SIR JOSEPH BANKS: MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS AND ARTICLES

‘Simkin’s Poetry’, being newscuttings, 1785-1792

[74 folios]

Papers concerning coinage and the Royal Mint, 1787-1813

[36 documents]

‘Translation of a paper communicated By Mr Stuart to Lord Hobart relative to the Map now existing in the Church of St Michael di Murano at Venice’, c1804

Satirical verse, c1807 and undated

[11 documents]

‘A Work upon Ancient Dresses’, undated

[2 documents]

Papers written by Banks, and some others, about various topics, ca 1805-1816, undated
[8 documents]

Misc cuttings and printed material, 1777, 1793-1795 and undated

[5 documents]

LINCOLNSHIRE

Correspondence and memoranda concerning Banks’ Lincolnshire estates, including Revesby Abbey, 1790-1808, undated

[81 documents]

Correspondence and memoranda concerning the office of High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1794-1795

[28 documents]

‘Papers relating to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral’, 1807-1808
[8 documents]

SARAH SOPHIA BANKS

Letters received by Sarah Sophia Banks from Joseph Banks, 1766, 1773-1774, 1779
[8 documents]

Copy of Some Account of Lisbon, and the adjacent Countrey, and Customs of the Inhabitants’,

[1766], 1772

LADY DOROTHEA BANKS

Letters received by Lady Dorothea Banks from various persons, 1817-1822 and undated

[10 documents]

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SIR JOSEPH BANKS: MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

Journal of an excursion to Chatham, Rochester, Sheerness and Sheppey, 21 January - 4 March 1767
Journal of a tour in Holland, 12 February - 22 March 1773

AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS

Illustrations and charts concerning the settlements in Australia, c1790s

THE VOYAGE OF GEORGE VANCOUVER TO THE WEST COAST OF AMERICA

Papers concerning the equipping and voyage of HM Ships Chatham and Discovery, George Vancouver, 1791-1972

Letters, and related papers, received by Banks from Archibald Menzies and others, 1791-1795, 1798

LORD MACARTNEY’S EMBASSY TO CHINA

Papers concerning publication of the account of Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China, c1797
Papers concerning the discovery of Pitcairn Island and the mutineers of HMS Bounty, 1808-1809, 1813-1815

THE FIRST PACIFIC VOYAGE OF JAMES COOK

Sir Joseph Banks: Endeavour Journal, volume 1, 25 Aug 1768 - 14 Aug 1769

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THE FIRST PACIFIC VOYAGE OF JAMES COOK

Sir Joseph Banks: Endeavour Journal, volume 2, 15 Aug 1769 - 12 July 1771

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Sir Joseph Banks: Material relating to Cook’s three Pacific voyages, 1768-1779:

THE FIRST PACIFIC VOYAGE OF JAMES COOK

Anonymous note concerning the voyage of HMS Endeavour, c1771

Papers concerning the publication of Comte Louis de Lauraguais of Banks’ abstract account of the voyage of HMS Endeavour, 1772

THE SECOND PACIFIC VOYAGE OF JAMES COOK

Voluntiers, Instructions, Provision for 2d. Voyage’ being papers concerning Banks’ preparations for the second Pacific voyage of HM Ships Resolution and Adventure, James Cook, 1768, 1771-1773

Letters received by Banks from James Cook concerning the second Pacific voyage in HM Ships Resolution and Adventure

Letters received by Banks from Charles Clerke concerning the second Pacific voyage in HM Ships Resolution and Adventure, James Cook, 1772

THE THIRD VOYAGE OF JAMES COOK

Letters received by Banks, with related papers, from John Montagu, Lord Sandwich, mainly concerning publication of the account of the third Pacific voyage in HM Ships Resolution and Discovery, James Cook, 1774, 1780-1785, 1795 Includes a letter received by Banks from Lord Howe, 1784

Letters received by Banks from James Cook concerning the third Pacific voyage in HM Ships Resolution and Discovery, 1776

Letters received by Banks from Charles Clerke concerning the third Pacific voyage in HM Ships Resolution and Discovery, James Cook, 1776, 1779

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, 1779-1870

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SIR JOSEPH BANKS: CORRESPONDENCE WITH GARDENERS AND COLLECTORS

Correspondence, mainly letters received by Banks from Francis Masson, 1776-1800, 1805

Letters received by Banks from William Wright, c1782-1793

Letters received by Banks from David Burton, 1790-1794

Letters and plant lists received by Banks from Christopher Smith, 1795-1801

Documents concerning the appointment of Peter Good, and the equipping of the Royal Admiral, 1794

Correspondence, mainly letters received by Banks from George Caley, 1795-1809

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SIR JOSEPH BANKS: CORRESPONDENCE WITH GARDENERS AND COLLECTORS

Correspondence concerning the outfitting and equipping of HMS Porpoise for a voyage to New South Wales, 1797-1801

General correspondence, being mainly letters received by Banks from various persons, 1791-1820

Botanical reports received by Banks, 1799, 1817-1818, undated. Includes ‘Rules for Collecting and preserving Specimens of plants’, undated

Plants and specimen lists kept or received by Banks, 1780s-1790s

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SIR JOSEPH BANKS: PAPERS CONCERNING AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS

Correspondence with various persons concerning Australia and the South Seas, being mainly letters received by Banks, 1786-1809

Correspondence and newscuttings concerning the prisoner Mary Rose, 1788-1789

Copies of correspondence concerning the withdrawal of Mungo Park from a voyage of exploration to Australia on board HMS Porpoise, 1798

‘Correspondence relative to Boring Machinery to try for Coal in NSWales’, 1799

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Banks from William Paterson, 1782, 1790-1808

Applications to Sir J Banks for free passages to N S W’ being letters received by Banks from various persons, 1800-1801

Letters [received by Banks] from persons wishing to proceed to Botany Bay’, 1801-1804

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Banks from William Kent, and others, 1801, 1806

Proposals for Conveying Convicts to New South Wales, also for their Maintenance and Clothing and c by W [William] Richards Jnr’, 1791-1793

Whale and Seal Fisheries and Sir Jos Banks’ Remarks… and Statistics…’, 1793-1798, 1802-1806

A project for supplying N S W with a circulating medium’, 1805

Volunteers who did not proceed [to New South Wales]’, 1810

Miscellaneous reports and memoranda concerning the settlements in Australia, [1770], c1786-1808

Miscellaneous newscuttings concerning the settlements in New South Wales, 1788-1791

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SIR JOSEPH BANKS: CORRESPONDENCE WITH GOVERNORS OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Letters, with related papers and journal extract, received by Banks from Arthur Phillip, 1787-1792, 1794-1796

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Banks from John Hunter, with related papers, 1795-1802, 1807

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Banks from Philip Gidley King, with related papers, 1788, 1791-1807

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SIR JOSEPH BANKS: CORRESPONDENCE WITH GOVERNORS OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Correspondence, mainly letters received by Banks from William Bligh, 1805-1811

Copies of documents ‘Received [by Banks] April 9 1808 Chiefly Relating to Leut Short’, 1806-1808. Includes memorandum written by Philip Gidley King, c1807

Documents written or transmitted to Banks by Elizabeth Bligh, 1807-1809

Letters received by Banks from various persons, concerning the governorship of William Bligh, 1808-1809

Copy of a letter received by Lachlan Macquarie from Banks, 1809

SIR JOSEPH BANKS: PAPERS RELATING TO NAVAL COMMANDS OF WILLIAM BLIGH

Letters received by Banks from Lord Camden and James Chapman, while William Bligh was commander of HMS Warrior, 1805.

Includes a letter written by William Bligh to William Marsden, Secretary to the Admiralty, 1805.

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Sir Joseph Banks: Papers relating to the two Breadfruit voyages of William Bligh, 1787-1791, on HMS Bounty and HM Ships Providence and Assistant.

THE FIRST BREADFRUIT VOYAGE OF WILLIAM BLIGH

'Plan for the Voyage with Letters from various persons who interfered in the management of it’ being papers concerning preparations for the voyage of HMS Bounty, William Bligh, c1787

'Correspondence Bounty’, being letters received by Banks from William Bligh concerning the breadfruit voyage of HMS Bounty, 1787-1790. Includes copy of a letter written by Joseph Coleman, 1788; and newscuttings, 1790, 1792

'David Nelson Gardiner. Third Voyage in HM Brig Bounty’, being papers concerning David Nelson and the breadfruit voyage of HMS Bounty, William Bligh, 1787, 1790

Miscellaneous correspondence concerning the breadfruit voyage of HMS Bounty, William Bligh, 1792, 1795-1796

THE SECOND BREADFRUIT VOYAGE OF WILLIAM BLIGH

‘outfit orders’, being papers concerning the breadfruit voyage of HM Ships Providence and Assistant, William Bligh, 1790-1791

'Correspondence’ being mainly letters received by Banks from William Bligh, with other papers, concerning the breadfruit voyage of HM Ships Providence and Assistant, 1791-1795. Includes newscuttings, 1791, 1793

Letters received by Banks from Nathaniel Portlock concerning the breadfruit voyage of HM Ships Providence and Assistant, William Bligh, 1791, 1793. Includes a letter received by Banks from Elizabeth Bligh, 1791

'Gardiners on the Providence’, being letters received by Banks, and related papers, from James Wiles and Christopher Smith concerning the breadfruit voyage of HM Ships Providence and Assistant, William Bligh, 1791-1793

'Accounts’ concerning James Wiles and Christopher Smith and the breadfruit voyage of HM Ships Providence and Assistant, William Bligh, 1791-1794, 1797

Draft letter written by Banks to William Pitt, Lord Chatham, concerning the breadfruit voyage of HM Ships Providence and Assistant, 1791, 1793

Letter received by Banks from Robert Brooke, concerning the breadfruit voyage of HM Ships Providence and Assistant, William Bligh, 1792

Letters and plant lists received by Banks from Alexander Anderson, concerning the breadfruit voyage of HM Ships Providence and Assistant, William Bligh, 1792-1793

Letters and plant lists received by Banks from Thomas Dancer, concerning the breadfruit voyage of HM Ships Providence and Assistant, William Bligh, 1793

SIR JOSEPH BANKS: PAPERS RELATING TO NAVAL COMMANDS OF WILLIAM BLIGH

Sir Joseph Banks: Papers relating to William Bligh’s naval commands, 1795-1805

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Banks from William Bligh while commander of HM Ships, Calcutta, Director, Glatton, Irresistible and Warrior, 1795-1798, 1800-1801, 1803, 1805. Includes a letter received by Banks from Elizabeth Bligh, 1805

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THE FIRST BREADFRUIT VOYAGE OF WILLIAM BLIGH

William Bligh: Log of HMS Bounty, 1787-1790

William Bligh: Account of the Voyage in the launch of HMS Bounty, 1789

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THE VOYAGES OF MATTHEW FLINDERS

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Banks from various persons, concerning the fitting our of HMS Investigator, Matthew Flinders, 1800-1801

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Banks from the Honourable East India Company, concerning the voyage of HMS Investigator, Matthew Flinders 1801

Correspondence being mainly letters received by Banks from Matthew Flinders, 1807-1811

'Letters about Capn Flinders while a prisoner on Isle of France [Mauritius]’, 1804-1808. Includes letter received by Banks from John Allen, 1803

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Banks, concerning the results of the voyage of HMS Investigator, Matthew Flinders, 1804-1806

Reports concerning the wreck of HM Ships Porpoise and Cato, 1805

'Drawings for Flinders work’, being papers concerning the drawings of William Westall from the voyage of HMS Investigator, Matthew Flinders, 1805-1806

'Engravings &c for F’s work’, being correspondence and invoices concerning the publication of the voyage of HMS Investigator, Matthew Flinders, 1811-1814

Matthew Flinders: Diary, 1803-1814

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THE VOYAGES OF MATTHEW FLINDERS

Matthew Flinders: Log of HMS Investigator, volume 1, Jan 1801 - May 1802

Matthew Flinders: Log of HMS Investigator, volume 2, May 1802 - June 1803

THE FIRST PACIFIC VOYAGE OF JAMES COOK

Journal of the Proceedings of HMS Endeavour, 1768-1770 (the “Corner” manuscript, a copy of Cook’s Journal, signed by Cook, in the hand of Orton, the ship’s clerk).

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