• Title
  Colonel Addenbrook - letter received from John Mawe, 19 June 18?
• Creator
  Colonel Addenbrook
• Call number
  MLDOC 1083
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  423955
• Physical Description
  1 folder - 0.01 Meters
  Textual Records - (manuscript)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Mawe (1764-1829), mineralogist and former sailor, established a shop in the Strand in 1811. He wrote books about mineralogy, conchology and his travels in South America.
• Scope and Content
  Letter to Colonel Addenbrook, A.D.C. to Prince Leopold, from John Mawe, London, 19 June 18?. Mawe requests Addenbrook to inform His Royal Highness that he has for sale a collection of shells formerly the property of the late Admiral Bligh, Governor of New South Wales.
• Finding Aids
  View transcript of letter - archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a128405.html
• Description source
  
  Information upgraded from Manuscripts MLDOCs (4-133B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  In 1822 William Swainson compiled a catalogue of the shell collection which he described as 'the celebrated collection of the late Mrs. Bligh'.
  Digital order no:a128405
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Mawe, John, 1764-1829
  
• Name
  Bligh, William, 1754-1817
  Leopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865
  
• Subject
  Shells--Collectors and collecting.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3180430

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