Three articles concerning Cook and Dalrymple; two transcriptions and a translation with footnotes by Sir William Dixson

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1773-1879, transcribed and translated at unknown date

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1 volume of textual material (38 p.) - typescript - 26.5 cm.

a. Hawkesworth, John
'Account of the voyages undertaken ... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere'. 2nd ed., 1773. Preface transcribed by Sir William Dixson. 4 p., 26 cm.

b. Alexander Dalrymple
'Mr Dalrymple's Observations on Dr Hawkesworth's Preface to the Second Edition.' 12 September 1773. Typescript, 24 leaves, 26 cm.
Manuscript note 'Copy of MS. in British Museum never published.'

c. Hamy, Ernest Theodore
'Etudes historiques et geographiques. 'Paris, 1896 p. 343-256. Extract translated and annotated by Sir William Dixson, entitled 'Cook & Dalrymple ... Read at a meeting of the Societe de Geographie held in commemoration of the death of Captain Cook; and printed in the May number of the Bulletin 1879.' Carbon typescript. 10 leaves, 26 cm.

Another copy. Original typescript in SP.460A (Pt. XVI)

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

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