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Title
Edmund Besley Court Kennedy papers on an expedition from Rockingham Bay to Cape York in 1848
Creator
Edmund Besley Court Kennedy, 1818-1848
Call number
A 2893
A 2893/vol. 2
D 330
MAV/FM3/72
Level of description
fonds
Date

1848
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
930881
Physical Description
3 volumes of textual material
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

These papers were buried after Kennedy's death by Jacky Jacky his native servant, and found 11 May 1849. They were transferred, with other Kennedy material, from the New South Wales Lands Department, 25 August 1925
Scope and Content
A 2893
Notebooks (2)

Fragments of Kennedy's letter of instruction on leaving some of his part at Weymouth

Fragments of journal

A 2893/vol. 1
Route, camps 8-82: 38 sketches and fragments. With sheet compiled by A. G. McLean January showing latitude of each camp

D 330
The same entitled 'Map compiled from Kennedy's notes and papers...by A. G. McLean January 1850'': reproduction of a tracing of a copy of the original, Survey office, Brisbane. 1 sheet in 3 sections
Description source

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (5-27A) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Creator/Author/Artist
McLean, A. J.
Subject
Explorers--Australia.
Surveyors--Australia.
New South Wales--Discovery and exploration--19th century.
Queensland--Discovery and exploration--19th century.

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