949675
- TitlePapers regarding Captain Thomas Beckford Simpson, 1835-1912
- Creator
- Call numberMLMSS 10327/Box 1X
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1835-1912 - Type of material
- Reference code949675
- Physical Description0.35 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - manuscript, printed
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Thomas Beckford Simpson (1808-1853), ship captain, sailed from Glasgow to New South Wales in the Fleetwood, 1839. He captained the barque Hope and took convicts to Norfolk Island in 1840, took the barques General Palmer and the Freak to China on trading ventures and undertook to search for the bodies and papers of Edmund Kennedy in 1849 and Leichhardt in 1852 - Scope and Content1. Letters, mainly from Captain Simpson to his wife Martha Devlin, 1835-1857, 1868
2. Papers regarding Captain Thomas Beckford Simpson and E. B. Kennedy’s expedition, with pages copied from a diary of Samuel R. McPhail, 1846-1912
3. Logbook, including description of Norfolk Island, 1840-1841 - Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright
Research & study copies allowed:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder - Name
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