• Title
  Item 03: Mark John Currie journal, papers, and photographs, 1823-1860
• Creator
  Mark John Currie, 1795-1874
• Call number
  A 2888
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1823-1860
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials
• Reference code
  1347148
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : From microfilm
  
• Physical Description
  0.02 metres of textual material (1 volume)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Mark John Currie, a naval captain, spent time exploring the east coast of Australia 1822-1823. In 1829 he arrived in Western Australia at the Swan River Colony, where he was part of at least three expeditions in to the south west region. In 1831 Currie built a brick homestead at the site now known as Redcliffe. He returned to England with his wife and their two children on 12 August 1832.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Proof copy of 'Journal of an excursion to the South of Lake George. 1823' by M. J. Currie
  Letter from Sir Thomas Brisbane 30 July 1823 thanking M. J. Currie for his services
  Autographed letter signed to H. C. Sutherland 3 June 1837 relating to his affairs in Western Australia (with typescript copy)
  Photographs of Mark John Currie and Jane Eliza Currie ca 1858-1860 by T. Fall
  Manuscript of 'Song on Western Australia by an emigrant'
  List of names of famous men, with prices, probably for autographs
  Coloured plate from a botanical book
  The Times London 7 November 1805 description of the Battle of Trafalgar
  Plan and description of an engagement between French and English armies
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Research & study copies allowed: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
• Published Information
  'Journal of an excursion to the South of Lake George' published in: Geographical memoirs on New South Wales / edited by Barron Field. London : John Murray, 1825.
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 2498, frames 141-164
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  'M. R. Macrae 14.2.44', and some page numbers inscribed in pencil on each original document in bound volume.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Fall, Thomas
  
• Name
  Currie, Jane Eliza, b. 1794
  Currie, Mark John, 1795-1874
  
• Subject
  New South Wales--Discovery and exploration--British.
  Explorers--Australia--Diaries.
  Western Australia--History--1829-1851.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  songs
  
• Place
  New South Wales
  Western Australia
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9158826

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