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Title
James Metcalfe diary, various dates, 1817-1843
Creator
James Metcalfe
Call number
MLMSS 917
Level of description
fonds
Date

1817-1843
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
937199
Physical Description
1 volume of textual material
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Writer lived in Sydney
Scope and Content
Diary entries in a copy of blank 'Private diary', printed London for Taylor and Hessey, 18-? Various dates between October 1817-December 1843
Item includes some prescriptions for human or animal ailments

Notebook was found loose in volume when it was received, and was pasted in the book. It contains disjointed notes mainly about local facts and events in N.S.W. in the 1840s
Description source

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (5-220B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012
General note

Keyword subject:
Veterinary medicine
Subject
Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social life and customs--1788-1851
New South Wales--History--1788-1851.
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

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