Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847), Governor of Tasmania, Arctic explorer

Correspondence relating to Sir John Franklin while Governor of Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania), and his second wife Jane, Lady Franklin, née Griffin (1792-1875). Includes some references to polar matters and explorers.

1834-1856

11 items

Purchased from: Stevens, London, September 1930 (acc.56580), January 1931 (acc.68115) and August 1934 (acc.68369); Huscombe's, July 1931 (acc.67561); Glendining, London, January 1932 (acc.67620) and May 1935 (acc.68610).

At Wellcome Collection: Further Franklin correspondence and papers can be found at MS.7402.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

This material was formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence with the items now known as MS. 7402 but was extracted to form a separate grouping in 1989 as a result of the National Library of Australia's Australian Joint Copying Project.