• Title
  Item 04: Letter from Cook to Captain John Walker, Whitby, 13 September 1771
• Call number
  SAFE/DLMSQ 140/pp. 25-28
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  13 September 1771
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1004855
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 folder
  
• Scope and Content
  Autograph letter signed No. 2 dated Mile End, London, describing Cook's voyage to the South Sea Islands, his circumnavigation of New Zealand, the Maoris, his exploration of the east coast of New Holland naming it New South Wales, the Australian Aborigines and his passage through (Torres) strait. (pp. 25-28)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  2 photocopies, 2 typescript copies one with corrections by Sir William Dixson and 1 transcript by Sir William Dixson. (pp.1-20 (Call No.: DLMSQ 143)
  
  A facsimile of this letter is located in the Dixson printed books collection at Q97/2 (Call No.: Q97/2)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1004868
• Exhibited in
  
  Queen Mary 2 display
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE654384

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