• Title
  Writing desk believed to have formerly been the property of Sir Joseph Banks, ca 1768-1771
• Call number
  SAFE/R 222
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1768-1771
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  824680
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 travelling desk - cedar box with a lift out compartment, and brass fittings and handles on each end
  
• Collection history
  Presented by Banks to William Bosbury, who was in his employ as a gardener thence to his son John Bosbury thence to his son John William Bosbury thence acquired by Sir Saul Samuel, Agent General of New South Wales in 1888, as recorded in a letter to Sir Saul Samuel from John William Bosbury on 24 September 1888.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  For further details on provenance see PXn 824
• General note
  
  John William Bosbury records that when giving this writing desk to his grandfather William Bosbury, Sir Joseph Banks advised him to think a great deal of it as it had been round the world and had been used by him during his voyage with Captain Cook on the Endeavour, 1768-1771.
  
  Reference :
  Letter from John William Bosbury to Sir Saul Samuel, Agent General of New South Wales, 24 September 1888. ML File no. ML 408/55
  
  Copy Print : R 222 available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1020891
• Name
  Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
  Endeavour (Ship)
  
• Topic
  desks
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Possessed : an exhibition of treasures - State Library of New South Wales (4 March - 29 June, 1997)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE417287

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