• Title
  William Lawson - Journal of an expedition across the Blue Mountains, 11 May - 6 June 1813, together with wax impression of Lawson's seal
• Creator
  William Lawson, 1774-1850
• Call number
  Safe 1/97
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1813
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  447154
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript
  1 seal (impression)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William Lawson (1774-1850) was an explorer and pastoralist. Lawson trained as a surveyor, but joined the New South Wales Corps in 1799. He later became a lieutenant in the New South Wales Veterans Company. In 1813 he accompanied Gregory Blaxland and William Charles Wentworth in the first successful attempt to find a route across the Blue Mountains. From 1819 to 1824 he was commandant of the new settlement at Bathurst, and made several further journeys of exploration in that area. He died at Veteran Hall, his grant at Prospect, in 1850.
• Scope and Content
  Journal, in Lawson's hand, written in a notebook. Lawson provides a detailed description of times and distances of the route of the journey, and some description of the terrain.
  
  The volume is accompanied by a wax impression of Lawson's fob seal showing a coat of arms.
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here; archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a1482.html
• General note
  
  Notebook bound by the Library into a leather cover in Oct. 1934.
  Preservation microfilm copy of Safe 1/97 available at CY 1646, frames 1 - 30 made, October 1989.
  See also: [1] C 120/1 (microfilm copy at CY 1642, frames 1-19): Journal of a tour into the country north of Bathurst, 8-24 Nov.1821; [2] C 120/2 (microfilm copy at CY 1642, frames 20-39): Journal of an expedition from Bathurst to the Liverpool Plains, 9-24 Jan. 1822.
  Transferred from C 123
  Transferred from Safe 9 to Safe 1
  Photocopy - CYC 123 (a negative photostat copy of Safe 1/97, on open access).
  Digital order no: Album ID : 823646
• Subject
  Blue Mountains (N.S.W.)--Discovery and exploration.
  Explorers--New South Wales.
  New South Wales--Discovery and exploration.
  Seals (Numismatics).
  
• Place
  Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (April-June 2009)
  The Governor : Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 (Travelling exhibition) - State Library of New South Wales (November 2010 - March 2012)
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (July, 2010 - October, 2010)
  Crossing the Blue Mountains - State Library of New South Wales (May 2013 - August 2013)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3234905

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