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Flinders, Matthew (1774 - 1814)

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Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
 
[Repository details]
Title:Angus & Robertson - Records
Reference:ML MSS 314
Date Range:1824 - 1933
Description:Includes correspondence, manuscripts, readers reports, cuttings, agreements and publishing papers.
Quantity:39 boxes, 123 volumes (12 m)
Related Entries:Basedow, Herbert (1881 - 1933) | Bäuerlen, William (1840 - 1917) | Bonwick, James (1817 - 1906) | Booth, Mary (1869 - 1956) | Carter, Herbert James (1858 - 1940) | Doorly, James Gerald Stokely (Gerald) (1880 - 1956) | Ellis, Henry Havelock (1859 - 1939) | Froggatt, Walter Wilson (1858 - 1937) | Hurley, Frank James Francis | Jones, Frederic Wood (1879 - 1954) | Liversidge, Archibald (1846 - 1927) | Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare (1853 - 1936) | Maclean, Archibald Lang ( - 1922) | Maiden, Joseph Henry (1859 - 1925) | Munro, Andrew Watson (1858 - 1944) | Skirving, Robert Scot (1859 - 1956) | Spencer, Walter Baldwin (1860 - 1929) | Tillyard, Robin John (1881 - 1937) | Woolls, William (1814 - 1893)

Title:Louis Henri desaulses de Freycinet - Records
Reference:FM 4/1740
Date Range:1803 - 1809
Description:Microfilm of records 1803-1809 from the French National Archives. Includes records of Louis Henri desaulses de Freycinet; microfilm of log kept by Bougainville on "Le Geographe" October 1800 - June 1803; microfilm of records relating to William Light 1803-1804; and files on Flinders 1803-9 including letters from Flinders while a prisoner on Mauritius 1808-9 from originals in the French National Archives.
Formats:Microfilm.
Quantity:1 reel
Access:Available for reference
Related Entries:de Bougainville, Hyacinthe | Freycinet, Louis Henri Desaulses de (1777 - 1840) | Light, William (1786 - 1839)

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML DOC 1137
Date Range:1789 - 1814
Description:'Memoir of the Official Services of Captain Matthew Flinders' 1789-1814 with annotation 'Drawn up by me, May 1843, to assist Mrs and Miss Flinders' by Admiral W.H. Smythe.
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:A4055
Date Range:1792 - 1793
Description:Log kept by Flinders on board HMS "Providence" 1792-3 with charts and sketches (photocopy of original in the Public Record Office, London) [366 pages, A4055].
Quantity:366 pages
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:B1402
Date Range:1801 - 1813
Description:Journals from HMS "Investigator" and "Cumberland" 1801-3 (3 volumes, 1 and 2 are original documents while 3 is a photocopy of the original in the Public Record Office, London); diary 17 December 1803 -8 July 1814; letters to C.T. Pitot 1806-13 (photocopy) [66 pages, B1402].
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:FM 3/688
Date Range:1795 - 1999
Description:'Narratives of expeditions along the coast of New South Wales' 1795-99 in the "Reliance" and "Tom Thumb" by Flinders (microfilm, original in the National Maritime Museum, UK) [1 reel, FM 3/688].
Formats:Microfilm.
Quantity:1 reel
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:C247-9
Description:Transcripts from the De Caen collection in the Caen Municipal Library and other places relating to Flinders' voyage.
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML MSS 732
Description:Manuscript dedication, part of preface and magnetic appendix of "A Voyage to Terra Australia" 1801-3 (London, 1814) (25 folios); see also the J. Banks papers volumes 11 and 12. Bibliography of Flinders 1797-1814, 1847 by J.D. Mack compiled 1961 [1 volume, ML MSS 732 and microfilm, FM 4/1702-3].
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML DOC 905
Date Range:1814
Description:Letter 1814.
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML DOC 1579
Date Range:1805
Description:ALS from Flinders to his wife 1805.
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML DOC 2644
Date Range:1803 - 1810
Description:Statement by d'Epinay brothers 1914 regarding the detention of Flinders 1803-10.
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML DOC 2727
Date Range:1801 - 1814
Description:Typescript collation of the "Investigator" journal 1801-3 and a diary 1803-14 [ML DOC 2727].
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML MSS 204X
Date Range:1802
Description:Facsimile of a page of the log of the "Investigator" 1802.
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML DOC 2943
Date Range:1809
Description:ALS to M. Quenst 1809.
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML MSS 2592
Date Range:1803 - 1804
Description:Letters to P.G. King (1 portfolio and 1 file); letters 1803-4 describing the voyage in the "Cumberland" from the Barrier Reef to Timor and Mauritius.
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.

Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:ML DOC 3328
Date Range:1908
Description:ALS to Major-General De Caen 1908 [ML DOC 3328].
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: State Library of New South Wales, Matthew Flinders Electronic Archives, State Library of New South Wales, 2001, http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/archive.html.
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Mortlock Library of South Australiana, State Library of South Australia
 
[Repository details]
Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Reference:PRG 17
Date Range:1774 - 1960
Description:Records of Flinders including journals, narratives of his voyages, service papers, technical notes on subjects in which he was particularly interested such as terrestial magnetism, and a large amount of original correspondence c1791-1814; records of Mrs Flinders consisting mostly of correspondence and including letters from Flinders written during the voyage of the "Investigator" 1801-4 and correspondence with French residents of Mauritius about her husband's affairs, overall dates c1791-1810; records of Professor Sir W. Flinders Petrie consisting of a large amount of biographical material on Flinders c1940-60 [PRG 17, and some material on microfilm].
Formats:Microform.
Access:Available for reference
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State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
 
[Repository details]
Title:Matthew Flinders - Records
Date Range:1791 - 1803
Description:Transcript of letters from Admiralty and Colonial Office c1791-1803; narrative of an expedition to the Furneaux Islands in 1798.
Quantity:2 files
Access:Available for reference
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