Sir William Dixson's miscellaneous papers concerning the Vlamingh plate, 23 December 1696-20 June 1950

DLWD 84

fonds

23 December 1696-20 June 1950

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings

950141

1 folder of textual material - manuscript, typescript, printed, photocopies, clippings

In October 1616, the Dutch mariner, Dirck Hartog, in the ship Eendracht, landed on what is now Dirck Hartog Island on the west coast of Western Australia, and left an inscribed plate commemorating his visit. In Februray 1697, another Dutch mariner, Willem de Vlamingh, landed and discovered the plate, which he replaced by another, commemorating both the Hartog visit and his own. This plate was found lying in the sand by Baudin in 1801, and was re-nailed to a post. In 1818, it was removed by Louis de Freycinet, who took it to France, where it was lost until 1940. The French government presented it to the Australian government in 1947

Item 1
'Estat de notre arrivee a La terre Australe encore inconnue sur la fin de 1696 et au commencement de lan 1697', 23 December 1696-19 January 1697. Part of Vlamingh's log. Photostat copy of a transcript of a translation in the Ministere de la Marine, Paris

Item 2
'Extract from the log of Willem de Vlamingh, translated from the Dutch into French'. English translation, with notes, by Sir William Dixson. Manuscript, typescript

Item 3
Report on the west coast of Australia, containing an account of the Vlamingh plate; by a member pf N. Baudin's expedition. Photostat copy of a transcript of the original in the Ministere de la Marine, Paris. With translation and notes by Sir William Dixson. Manuscript, photocopy

Item 4
'Extract from Hamlin's journal relating to the Vlamingh plate', 25-26 July 1801, with translation by Sir William Dixson. Typescript, photocopy

Item 5
Renie, Francois - 'Inscriptions de la baie des Chien-Marins'. Photostats of extract from Comptes-Rendus de l'Acad. des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 22 December 1944. With translation and notes by Sir William Dixson. Manuscript, photocopy

Item 6
'The Inscriptions at Shark Bay (Western New Holland) by M. Fancois Renie. Edited copy of the translation in item 5

Item 7
Davis, J. K. 'Dirck Hartog's pewter dish'. Photocopy of article in Walkabout 1 October 1938

Item 8
Extracts from various sources regarding the Vlamingh plate, translated with notes by Sir William Dixson. Includes translations of extracts from Vlamingh, Peron, Hamelin, Freycinet and Renie and also a short bibliography of Hartog and Vlamingh. Some of the translations are copies of previous items

Item 9
Presentation of the Vlamingh plate to the Commonwealth National Library, 21 January-28 May 1947. Newspaper cuttings, printed

Item 10
Sydney Morning Herald, 20 June 1950, pp. 1-2. Presentation of a copy of the Vlamingh plate to the Mitchell Library. Newspaper cutting

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

Transferred from DLSPENCER 424