Captain James Cook Relics and MSS

SAFE/DLMSF 1

fonds

1579-1905

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Cartographic Materials, Watercolours, Medals

942570

Microfilm : CY 223
Photocopy : CY DLMSF 1

0.04 metres of textual material (includes drawings, maps, coats of arms) (1 vol.) - 50 x 34 cm - manuscript (148 gilt-edged pages), watercolour drawings, printed maps
1 medal - 4.2 cm (diameter) - pewter
1 tusk - 13.5 cm (length) - ivory
1 button - 2.5 cm (diameter) - gilt

The relics were bequeathed by Mrs Cook to her servant Charles Dowell, Surrey. They passed to Ann Maria Sanford Arbery (great niece of his wife Sarah Doswell), (see DLMSF 1n) and later into the possession of Dr T. W. Shortridge of Honiton, Devon, from whom Dixon is supposed to have purchased them.

SERIES 1
Manuscripts, sketches, printed maps and coats of arms by or associated with James Cook, 1579-1821, from the collection of Dr T.W. Shortridge (pp. 1-80, 87)

SERIES 2
Dr T. W. Shortridge papers about his Captain James Cook collection, 1905 (pp. 81-85, 89-148)

SERIES 3
Relics associated with James Cook from the collection of Dr T.W. Shortridge, ca. 1768-1784

A full description of the contents is included in the Guide to Cook Papers, DLMSQ 139 and notes are filed at DLMSF 1n.

Title from spine of volume.

Contents lists made 1968.

From the collection of Dr T. W. Shortridge and including his papers about the collection, 1905.