• Title
  Matthew Flinders: Rough draft of fragments of 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', ca. 1809-1814
• Call number
  Safe 1/59
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1809-1814
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  414308
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.04 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  Flinders' rough draft, with alterations and corrections, of fragments of his book 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', published in 1814. Includes:
  1. Dedication (1 sheet).
  2. Preface. Incomplete (2 sheets).
  3. No. 2 Magnetical Appendix. Appears to be a complete draft of Appendix II of the second volume (17 sheets).
  4. Tables from Appendix I comprising Tables VII, IX and X (2 sheets).
  5. One sheet folded into four pages. The first page is dated Tuesday Aug. 20th [1805] and the second which is numbered 128 follows on. These two pages are possibly the roughs of additions to a draft of the published book as there is a reference to 'End of Chapter 6' (in the book the same events are related at the beginning of Chapter 6). The third and fourth pages, which do not follow on from the second page, describe an event which took place in October 1804.
  6. One sheet headed 'Tuesday March 23rd. Additional Remarks omitted'. Relates to pp. 170-172 in the published book. The wording differs considerably and is much abridged.
• Finding Aids
  Transcription available online - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2014/D30468/a083.html
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 2592, frames 1-81
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823224
• Subject
  Voyages and travels.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Matthew Flinders : The Ultimate Voyage - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1616422

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