441703
- TitleArthur Wilcox Manning journal of a voyage from Plymouth to Sydney on the Earl Grey, 1839-1840
- Creator
- Call numberMLMSS 7390
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1839-1840 - Type of material
- Reference code441703
- Issue CopyDigitised : 2013
- Physical Description0.05 metres of textual material - manuscript
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Arthur Wilcox Manning was the fourth son of John Edye Manning, who had arrived in Sydney in 1828 to become the registrar of the Supreme Court. At the age of 21 Arthur Manning left England with his bride for a new life together in New South Wales. He had originally planned to study for the Church of Engalnd Ministry but decided that his epilepsy would be a disadvantage. He went on to have a distinguished career as a government official in NSW and Queensland. - Scope and ContentIn his journal Manning provides a revealing record of life on an emigrant ship from the perspective of a cultivated first class passenger. He writes about the friction between the different classes of passengers and the difficulties faced by everyone on board: illness, death, overcrowding and the shortage of provisions which necessitated a four-day stop at Cape Town. He discusses the personalities of the officers and crew, sectarian conflicts and misrepresentations of the emigration agent. He vividly describes incidents such as a mutinous sailor threatening the captain, Thomas Surflen, waking to find his face covered with cockroaches, sighting a corpse floating past the ship, burials at sea, a threatened duel, thefts from the hold and discovering an albatross on deck with a message on a leather collar. The journal also contains a plan of the vessel with a key, a compass card diagram, a list of passengers and officers, a list of deaths, a chart of the anchorage at the Cape, a daily chronology of latitude and longitude and two pages of coloured illustrations of flags and signals. Another feature is Manning's one-page letter of introduction to the 'Reader' in which he makes it clear that he has publication in mind.
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Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - Finding AidsRead the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2014/D16002/a6108.html
- General note
Notes on A. W. Manning and the Manning family are included with the journal.
Original manuscript copied onto preservation microfilm, Dec. 2004 at CY 4401, frames 1 - 105
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