Letters by Parry
- Date:
- 1824-1854
- Reference:
- MS.7401/1-24
- Part of:
- Parry, Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward, (1790-1855), Arctic explorer
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
24 autograph letters by Parry, mainly signed but some in the third person. Correspondents include "Mrs. Charles Burney", Greenwich (presumably the wife or daughter-in-law of the classicist and educator Charles Burney (1757-1817)) (no.4), the Irish antiquary Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854) (nos.6, 8 and 12); Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort F.R.S. (1774-1857), hydrographer, concerning a manuscript from the eighteenth century on Captain William Coats' voyages to Hudson's Bay (no.14) (no.13) also concerns manuscript accounts of Arctic voyages); the geographer Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) (no.15); and the botanist William Gourlie (1815-1856) (nos.16 and 17). No.24 only fagmentary.
Publication/Creation
1824-1854
Physical description
24 items
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.