• Title
  Series 05: George Bass - papers
• Call number
  MLMSS 6544/5 (Safe 1/187)
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1799-1803
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  394999
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 3970, frames 473-503 (MLMSS 6544/5, filed at Safe 1/187)
  
• Physical Description
  Textual material - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  1799-1803; Correspondence with naval and mercantile associates. Seven letters, one written by Bass, six received by Bass, comprising:
  1. Autograph letters (2) signed by James Innes, HMS Vigilant, Portsmouth, 15 Feb 1799, and Portsea, 1 Nov [1799], containing mainly news of Innes' family and the war with the French
  2. Autograph letter signed by Henry Moor, London, 10 Jan [1801], partly concerning the financial affairs of Thomas Fyshe Palmer
  3. Autograph letter signed by Robert Shepherdson, Canton, 30 Oct 1801, in which Shepherdson proposes a voyage with Bass to trade in skins, mentions that Bass learnt some Arabic in Bombay, and lists the books he has read since their meeting
  4. Autograph letter signed by Lieutenant William Kent, Buffalo, Spithead, 8 Jan 1802, before the Buffalo's departure for Port Jackson in Feb 1802. Kent comments on their mutual associates Charles Bishop, James Williamson and Philip Gidley King, and on Kent's uncle Governor John Hunter
  5. Autograph letter signed by George Bass, Venus, Sydney Cove, 5 Jan 1803, to James Sykes, his London agent, mainly concerning financial affairs
  6. Autograph letter signed by Matthew Flinders, Porpoise, Port Jackson, 8 Aug 1803. Flinders writes of his exploration of Torres Strait and the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Investigator and his confidence in his charting ability compared with the French. He mentions both their families and their mutual associates Charles Bishop, John Shortland and Governor King
• General note
  
  Letters received by George Bass from Sarah Bass, Elizabeth Bass and William Waterhouse have been placed with the papers of these three individuals because they were returned to the Waterhouse family after Bass' death and are more easily read in sequence with letters written by Sarah Bass, Elizabeth Bass and William Waterhouse.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bass, George, 1771-1803
  Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814
  Innes, James
  Kent, William, 1751-1812
  Moor, Henry
  Shepherdson, Robert
  Sykes, James
  
• Name
  Bishop, Charles, 1765?-1810
  Hunter, John, 1737-1821
  King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808
  Palmer, Thomas Fyshe, 1747-1802
  Shortland, John, 1769-1810
  Williamson, James, 1758-1826
  
• Subject
  Australia--Discovery and exploration.
  Explorers--Australia.
  Great Britain. Royal Navy--Surgeons.
  Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
  Oceania--Commerce.
  
• Place
  Bass Strait (Vic. and Tas.)
  Kealakekua Bay (Hawaii)
  Torres Strait (Qld.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20365066

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