• Title
  Phillip Parker King to John Wilson Croker, 1 Oct. 1817
• Creator
  John Wilson Croker, 1780-1857
• Call number
  MLDOC 920
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1 Oct. 1817
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  421586
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : MAV/FM3/772 (MLDOC 920)
  
• Physical Description
  1 folder - 0.01 Meters
  Textual Records
  Textual Records - (typescript)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Phillip Parker King (1791-1856) was the son of Governor Philip Gidley King. He surveyed the Australian coast from 1817 to 1822 in the cutter Mermaid and the Bathurst.
• Scope and Content
  Autograph letter, signed, to J.W. Croker, secretary to the Admiralty, in which Phillip Parker King advises of his arrival in Sydney and the preparations for his survey of the Australian coast. He reports the arrival of the Mermaid from India and his hopes that Lachlan Macquarie will purchase the ship for his survey. King also includes particulars of John Oxley's discoveries on his expedition to ascertain the mouth of the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers.
• Finding Aids
  Read transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a336.html
• Variant title
  
  Information upgraded from Manuscripts MLDOCs (4-125B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Digital order no: Album ID : 823915
• Creator/Author/Artist
  King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856
  
• Name
  Mermaid (cutter)
  
• Subject
  New South Wales--Discovery and exploration.
  Oxley, John, 1783-1828.
  
• Place
  Lachlan River (N.S.W.)
  Macquarie River (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3194532

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