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457616
  • Title
    Series 2: William Cox - Journal, 7 July, 1814 - 7 January, 1815
  • Creator
  • Call number
    SAFE/C 708/2 (Safe 1/265)
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    1814-1815
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    457616
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    0.02 metres of textual material (1 volume)
  • Scope and Content
    C 708/2: diary entries 7 July 1814 - 7 January 1815, with 8 additional pages at the end of miscellaneous information, including lists of names, and "Memorandum for watering & feeding stock"; many undated, some upside down, or written sideways.

    C 708/2: "Journal kept by Mr Cox in making a road across the Blue Mountains from Emu Plains to a new country discovered by Mr Evans to the westward" -- title page.
  • System of arrangement
    Chronological diary entries.
  • General note

    C 708/1 originally catalogued as original and C 708/2 as copy: recatalogued in reverse in Sep 1961.

    C 708/2 appears to be in Cox's own handwriting cf. letter by Cox in Piper correspondence p. 457c at A 255. (Source: Manuscripts Index card catalogue)

    This diary differs slightly from the printed journal in Memoirs of William Cox, J.P. (Sydney : William Brooks, printer, 1901) (ML A923.9/C878/2A1)

    Microfilm available at CY 1022, frames 1 - 69
    Digital order no:Album ID : 852815
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    C 708/2: "Grandfather William Cox's diary" -- inside front cover.
  • Exhibited in

    Crossing the Blue Mountains - State Library of New South Wales (11 May - 12 August, 2013)
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