• Title
  Letter from Captain James Cook to the Earl of Sandwich, 6 Feb. 1772, enclosing a map and a document giving his opinion of the proposed route for the second voyage
• Creator
  John Montagu Sandwich, 4th Earl of, 1718-1792
• Call number
  Safe 1/82
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1771-1772
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Manuscript Cartographic Materials
• Reference code
  449205
• Issue Copy
  Photocopy : CY Safe 1/82
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  0.03 metres of textual material (1 volume and 1 map sheet) - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  6 Feb. 1772; Letter from Captain James Cook to the Earl of Sandwich enclosing a map and a document giving his opinion of the proposed route for the second voyage.
  enclosed with letter 6 Feb. 1772; 'Captain Cook's opinion of the rout the Resolution and Adventure ought to take to explore the Southern Ocean, humbly submitted to the consideration of the Earl of Sandwich'. 3 pages
  
  ca. 1771; Map of the Southern Hemisphere showing the discoveries made in the Southern Ocean up to 1770. One sheet. Original map by Cook showing the tracks of Tasman, Wallis, Bougainville, the Endeavour, and ships of the East India Company. Cook's proposed route of the Resolution and Adventure is marked in yellow.
• Published Information
  Items described in: Bibliography of Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S. [Sydney : Council of the Library of NSW, 1970] Item 1182 (p.215) and Item 1332 (p.247)
• Variant title
  
  The volume has a manuscript title page 'Original manuscript in the handwriting of Captain Cook relating to his second voyage'
  
  Listed in the Manuscripts Index Card Catalogue as: Original manuscripts in the handwriting of Captain James Cook relating to his second voyage
• General note
  
  The binding and style of title page in this volume matches that of the Cook volume at Safe 1/80.
  
  The map was removed from the bound volume in 1998 and transferred to the Maps Collection:
  A map of the southern hemi-sphere shewing the discoveries made in the Southern Ocean up to 1770 [cartographic material] / James Cook
  Call number: ZSafe 1/82
  Available online: Digital Order No. a127069
  
  Microfilm copy available at: CY 272, frames 1-12
  Digital order no:Album ID : 971432
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Cook, James, 1728-1779
  
• Name
  Adventure (Ship)
  Resolution (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Australia--Maps.
  Cook, James, 1728-1779--Travel--Pacific Ocean.
  Southern Hemisphere--Maps.
  Voyages and travels--18th century.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (April-June 2009)
  Crux. Rare maps from the State Library of NSW - State Library of New South Wales (March 2000 - July 2000)
  Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage (Anchorage Museum Alaska) - Anchorage Museum, Alaska (March, 2015 - September, 2015)
  Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage (Washington State Historical Society, Seattle) - Washington State Historical Society (October 2015 - January 2016)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1160543

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