COOK MSS.
AN INTERESTING PURCHASE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) I LONDON, March 24. Australia House has acquired a most valuable addition- of historic documents for the Mitchell Library, in Captain Cook’s letter-book pf the second and third voyages. , ■;. • The, volume, is in splendid condition. It consists, of copies by Cook in his own handwriting, of the Commission’s secret, instructions, letters to Admiralty, ordeiy.to subordinates,, and memoranda, on manifold sobjects. In filet, all orders relating to business on the voyage , are chronologically recorded, The last entry was written seven weeks before his death. Experts regard the letter book as the next in importance to the actual log, The bock was formerly in possession of-A. ,G- Riddle, of Montreal, who inherited it from his grandfather, who was a,collector of old manuscripts and purchased it in London. Australia House secured it for £5O.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1925, Page 5
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141COOK MSS. Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1925, Page 5
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