Guide to the records relating to Matthew Flinders (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M444, M3033 - M3037

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2019

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Series ADM 1. Admiralty and Secretariat Papers, 1801 - 1812

Letters from Admirals etc. - East Indies, 1805 - 1806 (File)

Admirals' despatches: East Indies, 13 August 1805 - 15 January 1806 (Item Adm 1/177)

Flinders (Mauritius) to Sir Edward Pellew, 13 Aug. 1805: account of voyage of Cumberland from New South Wales; reasons for putting in at Mauritius; seizure of schooner, charts, books and papers; degrading treatment of Flinders and crew; contrast with treatment accorded to French officers by Governor King; attaches documents. Also an acknowledgment by Pellew, 15 Jan. 1806.

Naval Stations - Portsmouth, 1812 (File 2)

Admirals' despatches: Portsmouth, 30 May 1812 (Item Adm 1/1200)

Sir Richard Bickerton (Portsmouth) to Admiralty, 30 May 1812: sends reports received from various ships on compass variations.

Captains' Letters - Surnames A-H, 1801 - 1812 (File 3)

Captains' letters (F), 1801 (Item Adm 1/1800)

Letters from Flinders HMS Investigator to E. Nepean (Admiralty): appointment of crew members; procurement of charts, books, stationery and articles suitable as presents; repairs needed on the ship; conduct to be observed towards French vessels; departure from Spithead; performance of ship. Also instructions from the Lords of the Admiralty to Flinders (n.d.) and copies of letters from the Admiralty to Flinders.

Captains' letters (F), 1802 - 1804 (Item Adm 1/1803)

Includes Flinders (Mauritius) to Admiralty, 30 Dec. 1804: his continued captivity; sends copies of letters to Governor De Caen.

Captains' letters (F), 1805 - 1806 (Item Adm 1/1804)

Includes Flinders (Mauritius) to W. Marsden (Admiralty), 13 March 1805: sends copy of letter to M. Fleurieu on erroneous statement about Flinders's intentions on travelling to Mauritius; refers to the friendly reception that the Geographe and Naturaliste received at Port Jackson.

Captains' letters (F), 1808 - 1809 (Item Adm 1/1806)

Includes Flinders (Mauritius) to W. Marsden, 20 Jan. 1808: continued imprisonment despite an order from the French Minister for the Marine; seizure of letters by De Caen; sends copies of letters to Minister and Col. Monistrol.

Captains' letters (F), 1810 (Item Adm 1/1807)

Letters from Flinders (London) to J.W. Croker and J. Barrow (Admiralty): request for compensation payment for his time imprisoned at Mauritius; efforts by P.G. King, the Minister for the Marine and others to secure his release; De Caen's retention of the third volume of the Investigator's logbook.

Captains' letters (F), 1811 (Item Adm 1/1808)

Includes: Flinders (London) to J.W. Croker, 14 Nov. 1811: requesting an allowance while writing an account of their voyage on H.M.S. Investigator and drawing charts.

Captains' letters (F), 1812 (Item Adm 1/1809)

Includes: Letters from Flinders (London) to J.W. Croker: observations on the magnetism of ships; experiments on compass variations at Sheerness and Portsmouth. Also minutes by Capt. Hurd (Hydrographic Office) on the observations of Flinders...

Captains' letters (K), 1803 (Item Adm 1/2020)

Includes: Letters from P.G. King (Sydney) to E. Nepean (Admiralty): reports on warships arriving at Sydney; explorations in Bass Strait by French ships; King's decision to form a settlement in Van Diemen's land; return of HMS Investigator; transfer of officers and men to the Porpoise; wreck of Porpoise on reef...

Captains' letters (K), 1804 - 1805 (Item Adm 1/2021)

Includes: Letters from P.G. King (Sydney) to W. Marsden: sends copies of letters from Flinders to King written at Timor and Mauritius and a copy of a letter written by King to the Governor of Mauritius.

Transport Board, 1811 - 1812 (File 4)

Letters from Transport Department, 1811 (Item Adm 1/3762)

Includes: Board of Transport to J.W. Croker, 31 Jan. 1811: sends letter from M. Riviere (Department of Marine) concerning Flinders at Mauritius.

Letters from Transport Department, 1812 (Item Adm 1/3763)

Includes: Board of Transport to J.W. Crocker, 1 Jan. 1812: sends letter from M. Riviere on loss of Flinders' journal.

Promiscuous - Surnames A-H, 1805 - 1811 (File 5)

Promiscuous letters (B), 1805 - 1806 (Item Adm 1/4379)

Memorandum by Sir Joseph Banks, Jan. 1806, on collections made by R. Brown and F. Bauer on voyage of HMS Investigator; requests that salaries be continued in manner similar to those of artists of J. Cook; proposed publication of engravings and descriptions of most interesting objects. Also covering letter to W. Marsden

Promiscuous letters (B), 1811 - 1812 (Item Adm 1/4382)

Letters from Sir Joseph Banks to the Admiralty on the charts and drawings of Flinders' voyage and the report by Flinders on variations of the compass. Also an unsigned memorandum on Flinders' paper on compass variations (7pp) and a draft letter to Sir Joseph Banks on the plates and charts of Flinder's voyage.

Promiscuous letters (H), 1811 (Item Adm 1/4698)

Letters from Hope to J. Barrow: refers to his relative Hugh Hope who secured the release of Flinders at Mauritius; promise made by Hope to secure the release of French prisoners of war in England.

Series ADM 7. Admiralty and Secretariat Miscellanea, 1806

Narrative of Matthew Flinders of his imprisonment by the French, 1806 (File Adm 7/707)

Manuscript (332pp + 38 appendices) written by Flinders at Mauritius, July 1806, entitled 'A narrative of the causes that prevented His Majesty's Ship Investigator from completing the examination and discovery of the coasts of Australia, the embarkation of the commander and company on board His Majesty's armed vessel Porpoise, the loss of that ship, and of the Cato of London, upon a coral reef between New Caledonia and New South Wales, a voyage of 250 leagues to Port Jackson in an open boat, and the subsequent embarkation of the commander of the Investigator, with the charts etc of his discoveries, for England, in the Cumberland schooner of 29 tons. Also an account of his voyage as far as the Isle of France, his reception there by the French captain-general De Caen, and the treatment he has received during an imprisonment of --- years, interspersed with notices upon the voyage of Monsieur N. Baudin, and various observations and remarks'

Narrative of Matthew Flinders of his imprisonment by the French, 1806 (File Adm 7/708)

Manuscript by Flinders entitled 'Abstract of the Investigator's proceedings and discoveries on the coast of New Holland from 22 July 1802 when she sailed from Port Jackson to 12 March 1803' (4pp)...

Series NMM FLI. Correspondence of Matthew Flinders, 1791 - 1815

Personal letters from English correspondents received by Flinders, arranged alphabetically by name of writer, 1791 - 1814 (File FLI 1)

(34 letters)

Sir Joseph Banks, 1800 - 1814 (Item)

(7 letters)

Admiral William Bligh, 1811 (Item)

(1 letter)

Sir John Franklin, 1810 (Item)

(1 letter)

James Horsburgh, 1812 (Item)

(2 letters)

W. Hope, 1809 - 1812 (Item)

(5 letters)

Captain W. Kent, 1811 (Item)

(1 letter)

Captain Larkins, 1806 (Item)

(2 letters)

William F.W. Owen, 1810 - 1812 (Item)

(3 letters)

E. Owen, 1811 (Item)

(1 letter)

Sir Thomas Pasley, 1791 - 1793 (Item)

(2 letters)

Thomas Pearce, 1800 (Item)

(1 letter)

Major Russell, 1801 (Item)

(1 letter)

Christopher Smith, 1799 (Item)

(1 letter)

Mrs Ann Tyler, 1803 (Item)

(1 letter)

Miss Tyler, 1810 (Item)

(1 letter)

Richard Westall, 1802 (Item)

(1 letter)

William Wilberforce, 1811 (Item)

(1 letter)

James Wiles, 1811 - 1813 (Item)

(2 letters)

Letters received by Flinders from French correspondents, 1804 - 1815 (File FLI 2)

Arranged chronologically, including 35 letters from M. Pitot. (68 letters in all)

Official letters received by Flinders, 1801 - 1812 (File FLI 3)

Including Admiralty orders for voyage in Investigator, passport 1801, correspondence about Flinders' release, and pay (20 documents).

Copies of letters written by Flinders, 24 pages from a private letterbook, 1795 - 1808 (File FLI 4)

Series FLI 5 - 7. Personal and Service Papers and Memos, 1797 - 1814

Service papers of Captain Flinders - commissions, certificates etc. (8 documents), 1797 - 1810 (File FLI 5)

Personal legal and business papers of Captain Flinders, wills, accounts, etc., 1811 - 1814 (File FLI 6)

Technical memoranda, mainly on variation of the compass, and correspondence from the Admiralty on the same subject, 1812 - 1814 (File FLI 7)

Includes copies of articles on his voyage published in contemporary periodicals, Malay vocabulary and alphabet.

Series FLI 8 - 14. Journals and Narratives of Captain Flinders, c. 1791 - 1809

Portion of journal, relating to voyage on Providence with Bligh, c.1791 (File FLI 8a)

In the form of notes on places. (11p.).

Journal kept in the Bellerphon, September 1793 - July 1794 (File FLI 8b)

Includes: Glorious First of June. By Matthew Flinders, lieutenant

Narrative of voyages in the Tom Thumb, September 1795 - April 1796 (File FLI 9a)

Up George's River and to Port Hacking, by Matthew Flinders. (24p.).

Narrative of expedition to Furneaux Islands on the coast of New South Wales in the Port Jackson colonial schooner Francis by Matthew Flinders, second lieutenant of H.M.S. Reliance, March 1798 (File FLI 9b)

Copy that was made in May 1877 by William M. Flinders Petrie when the original was presented to Melbourne Library.

Record of longitude by Earnshaw's chronometers, kept by Flinders in H.M.S. Investigator, November 1801 - December 1803 (File FLI 10)

Back of volume contains out-letterbook of Mrs Flinders 1821 - 32.

A biographical tribute to Trim the cat, by Matthew Flinders, Isle de France, December 1809 (File FLI 11)

Includes a copy of the same by Miss Tyler. (9p. + 13p.)

Journals and letterbook of Matthew Flinders, 1806 - 1807 (File FLI 12)

Incomplete unbound, folio, 180-230, at the end of the book are 18 pages of notes on Grant's History of the Isle de France, made in the Island.

Abridged narrative of a voyage of discovery to Australia performed in H.M.S. Investigator (File FLI 13)

English copy of Abridged narrative of a voyage of discovery to Australia performed in H.M.S. Investigator (Item FLI 13 a))
French copy of Abridged narrative of a voyage of discovery to Australia performed in H.M.S. Investigator (Item b))
Rough copy of the Voyage, Book II, ff.70-107 (Item c))

Newspapers. (File FLI 14)

Sydney Gazette. 1803 - 18 copies. The Orphan, 1804 - 1 copy, Isle de France Gazette, 1809-1810, 8 copies.

Series FLI 15 - 20. Charts and Drawings, 1779 - 1814

Subseries FLI 15. Manuscript charts, 1791 - 1810

A chart of the passage between New Holland and New Guinea as seen in HMS Providence in 1792, 1791 - 1792 (File 1)

M.Flinders. (Also showing the track of the Pandora in 1791). 18 × 22 inches...

Chart of Port II Refugio in the island Vavaoo, by William Wilson, commander of the Royal Admiral, August 1801 (File 2)

Inset showing the Hoorn Islands...

Chart of Port St Vincent, coast of New Caledonia, surveyed in 1803, 1803 (File 3)

By William Kent, 2nd commander of HMS Buffalo...

Map showing a journey made in the interior of New South Wales, 25 July 1806 - 22 August 1806 (File 4)

16.5 × 9.75 inches...

Sketch map, possibly for (4) Map showing a journey made in the interior of New South Wales (File 5)

16.25 × 9.75 inches...

Survey of country between Port Dalrymple and the River Derwent, Van Diemen's Land, 1807 (File 6)

Charles Grimes, Surveyor General of Lands, New South Wales...

A copy of a survey of the Harbour of Rio de Janeiro. (With a view of the harbour entrance.), Undated (possibly made in the Reliance in 1795) (File 7)

Flinders...

Chart of the harbour of Rio de Janeiro. (Companion to (7) A copy of a survey of the Harbour of Rio de Janeiro. (With a view of the harbour entrance.)) (File 8)

10.5 × 6.5 inches...

Isle Penantipode, discovered by HMS Reliance, H.Waterhouse, commander, 25 March 1800 (File 9)

Copied by S.Flinders. 7 × 9.5 inches...

Copy of Mr Barrallier's sketch of Port Hunter, 15 May 1810 (File 10)

Annotated by Flinders. Tracing paper, 8 × 10 inches...

Chart of part of the Freshwater River at Hobart Town, River Derwent, Island of Van Diemen, by G.P.Harris. (File 11)

Tracing paper, 10 × 24.5 inches

Carte de la partie occidentale de la Nouvelle Guinee et des detroits adjacents d'apres un manuscrit Hollandois qu'on suppose avoir ete fait dans le voyage de Geelvink en 1705, 1801 (File 12)

Tracing paper, 18 × 26 inches...

Plan de la Grande Baie du Geelvinck a la cote nord de la Nouvelle Guinee d'apres un manuscrit Hollandois, 1801 (File 13)

Tracing paper, 18 × 26 inches...

Carte generale de la Terre de Nuyts. Tracing paper, 15 × 36 inches, 1801 (File 14)

Tracing paper, 15 × 36 inches...

Carte de la partie de la Terre de Nuyts reconnue par M.d'Entrecasteaux, contre amiral de France, du 9 au 23 Decembre 1792 Redigee a bord de la fregate La Recherche par Beautemps Beaupre, 1801 (File 15)

Tracing paper, 18 × 18 inches...

Carte generale de la partie sud de la Terre de Diemen, reconnue par M.d'Entrecasteaux, contre amiral, en 1792 et 1793. Redigee a bord de la fregate La Recherche par Beautemps Beaupre., 1801 (File 16)

Tracing paper, 10 × 13 inches...

Carte particuliere de la partie de la Terre de Diemen comprise entre le Cap Meridional et le Baye aux Huitres, construite sur les observations et relevemens d'Avril 1792 et Janvier 1793 par Beautemps Beaupre., 1801 (File 17)

Tracing paper...

Port A.Van Diemen's Land (Rechreche Bay), 1801 (File 18)

Tracing paper, 18 x 21 inches...

Plan d'un port situe dans la partie de la Baye des Tempetes, Nouvelle Hollande … leve par le Sr Jouvency. (Port B, Van Diemen's, in pencil), 1801 (File 19)

Tracing paper 11.5 × 18 inches...

Plan du port C. Leve par M.Jouvenci en 1792, 1801 (File 20)

Tracing paper, 16 × 20 inches...

Plan du port (F) situe dans la patrie Ot du Detroit d'Entrecasteaux. Leve le 15 Fevrier 1793, 1801 (File 21)

Tracing paper, 18 × 21 inches...

A chart of the Friendly Islands being the north western extremity, supposed to be Hamsa, Vavao and Feejee, seen 4 December 1799, March 1801 (File 22)

Copied from a manuscript of Alexander Dalrymple...

A chart of Bligh's Islands by William Bligh, 14 April 1801 (File 23)

With: Land seen by the Hope and Ann, Captain Maitland, 1799, added in pencil...

Charts of Port Hunter, Broken Bay, Port Jackson, Botany Bay and Twofold Bay, by Flinders 10.25 × 2.25 inches (File 24)

Subseries FLI 16. Printed Charts, 1779 - 1802

Charts published by Alexander Dalrymple, July 1779 - May 1802 (File)
Charts of the west coast of New Holland from Van Keulen, plate 1, 28 July 1779 (Item 1)

11 × 18 inches

Chart of the coast of Edels Land, (north of Swan River) discovered 1619, 28 July 1779 (Item 2)

11 × 18 inches.

Plan of the island Rottnest, (ie Rat's Nest) lying off the west coast of New Holland, from Van Keulen. Published 11.5 × 8.5 inches, 7 January 1780 (Item 3)
New Guinea (part), 31 March 1780 (Item 4)

This chart appeared to be very antient (sic) when copied in April 1763. 10.75 × 17 inches.

Houtman's Abrolhos near the west coast of New Holland from Van Keulen, August 1782 (Item 5)

Dangerous rocks off the coast of New Holland seen in the London, Captain Daniel, 1681. Tryall rocks, where the English ship Tryall was lost in 1622...

Chart of the west end of the Island Timor, with part of the adjacent islands, 4 August 1786 (Item 6)

From a Dutch manuscript. 8.5 × 11.5 inches

Chart of the islands of Mangaray and Sumba with Timor and the adjacent islands, 7 August 1786 (Item 7)

From a Dutch printed chart, most obligingly communicated by Mr Sayer...

A copy of part of an antient (sic) manuscript map in the British Museum. (East Indies), 24 August 1787 (Item 8)

25 × 19.5 inches

Plan of the islands to the eastward and southward of Banda with part of the adjacent coasts of New Guinea and New Holland, 27 August 1788 (Item 9)

From a Dutch manuscript in possession of the Hon. Archibald Fraser...

Part of a plane chart published by John Thornton and Joel Gascoyn. (Torres Strait and Arafura Sea), 17 February 1790 (Item 10)

8.5 × 11.25 inches

Map of the islands between Banda and Papua, 27 October 1790 (Item 11)

Reduced from that published by Valentyn in 1727...

Chart of Timor and adjacent islands, 1 March 1792 (File 12)

From a Dutch manuscript communicated by Captain William Bligh...

Sketch of Copang Bay on the island of Timor, taken in HMS Leopard, 1791, 7 September 1792 (Item 13)

15.5 × 12.5 inches.

Chart of the track and discoveries of the East India Company's cruizers Panther and Endeavour, under the command of Lieutenant John McCluer, 1790 - 1792, 6 December 1792 (Item 14)

19 × 12 inches.

Plan of Jervis Bay on the east coast of New Holland, Lat. 35 degrees 6' S., Long. 150 degrees 52' E.,, 11 March 1794 (Item 15)

By Mr Matthew Weatherhead. 5.75 × 11.25 inches

Sketch of the harbour of Dellie, Lat. 8 degrees 33'S., 30 May 1802 (Item 16)

By Thomas Dunning Lippiat (Timor). 9 × 11.5 inches

Chart published by A.Arrowsmith, January 1798 (File)
Chart of several harbours on the south east part of Van Diemen's Land, 1 January 1798 (Item 17)

26 × 34 inches

Subseries FLI 18. Original drawings

Port Lincoln, by Hosmer Shepherd (File 1)

Watercolour, 7.5 x 13 inches

Two icebergs (File 2)

Wash, 2.25 x 10.25 inches

Bay de Tombeau (File 3)

Pencil, 12 x 18 inches

View from the shoulder of the Pause looking towards the sea (File 4)

Pencil, 12.5 x 17 inches

Hut in Mauritius (File 5)

Ink, 12 x 18 inches

Waterfall (File 6)

Pencil, 15 x 11 inches

Foliage, Mauritius (File 7)

Pencil. 12 x 9 inches

Sir Charles Saunders' Island, Society Islands. (View) (File 8)

Ink, 2.5 x 10 inches. On reverse: Hummock Island, Cape St George, part of Wallis Island

Subseries FLI 19. Prints

Lithographs from views by William Westall, prepared for plates in Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis (File 1-7)
View of Port Louis, Mauritius, by Dureau (File 8)

Lithograph, 6 x 9 inches

View, by John Pye, dated 1812, 1812 (File 9)

Lithograph, 6 x 9 inches

Sir John Franklin. Proof of lithograph (File 10)
Matthew Flinders. Facsimile of his portrait and his parole (File 11-20)

Subseries FLI 20. Loose papers, December 1799 - 1814

Extract from the Ann & Hope's journal, Captain Maitland, 5 December 1799 - 9 December 1799 (File 1)

Describing Feejee or Bligh Island. 1 sheet.

Letter written by E.Davies, 3rd officer, Warren Hastings, Grand River Prison, 14 July 1806 (File 2)

Describing an action with La Piedmontaise on 24 June 1806. 1 sheet.

Note written by Tore'de Espinosa, to Flinders, 9 May 1811 (File 3)

Giving details of an eclipse of the sun at Port Jackson in 1793, used to determine the longitude of Port Jackson. 1 sheet.

Invitation to a church service, (1 sheet) (File 4)

In French

Mount Table from Mr Brown, (1 sheet) (File 5)
Note on Flinders' service and a press cutting on his death, (2 sheets), 1814 (File 6)
Fragment, referring to a view of Port Lincoln (File 7)

Series FLI 25 - 31. Papers of Mrs Matthew Flinders, 1799 - 1852

Letters received by Mrs Flinders from Matthew Flinders, also four letters from Flinders to members of the Tyler family (46 letters), 1799 - 1812 (File FLI 25)

Letters received by Mrs Flinders from Sir Joseph Banks (9 letters), 1804 - 1810 (File FLI 26)

Letters received by Mrs Flinders from Sir John Franklin (5 letters), 1810 - 1842 (File FLI 27)

Letters received by Mrs Flinders from John Elder, (Flinders petty officer servant) (3 letters), 1808 (File FLI 28)

Letters received by Mrs Flinders from M.Pitot, including translations of some of the letters (27 letters), 1815 - 1843 (File FLI 29)

Letters received by Mrs Flinders from other correspondents (11 letters), 1814 - 1852 (File FLI 30)

Drafts of letters written by Mrs Flinders (File FLI 31)

Mostly undated, probably 1820-1827

Series FLI 101 - 110. Papers of Professor Sir William Flinders Petrie, 1800 - 1912

Correspondence, 1873 - 1880 (File FLI 101-102)

Correspondence with J.J. Shillinglaw about the latter's projected book on Flinders, 1875 - 1880 (Item FLI 101)
Correspondence of W.F. Petrie and Mrs Petrie mainly letters received with some draft replies, mostly about Flinders and material on his life etc., 1873 - 1880 (Item FLI 102)

Biographical material about Captain Matthew Flinders, collected by Professor Flinders Petrie, 1800 - 1912 (File FLI 103-110)

Notes on Captain Matthew Flinders, made and collected by Professor Petrie, including newspaper articles relating to Flinders, 1806 - 1912 (Item FLI 103)

Draft for an article by William Flinders Petrie. 'A chapter in the History of Magnetism', list of and notes on the Flinders papers compiled by W.F.P.

A memoir of Captain Flinders, apparently in his wife's handwriting (12p.) (Item FLI 104)
A brief memoir of Captain Flinders, written for his friends by Admiral Smythe. (31p.), c.1845 (Item FLI 105)
A memoir of Captain Flinders written for his daughter, (almost identical with the Brief Memoir of Admiral Smythe), 1800 (Item FLI 106)

(first page missing.)...

Biographical outline of Captain and Mrs Flinders by Elizabeth Tyler, 1852 (Item FLI 107)

(21p.)...

Abridgement of Voyage to Terra Australis, 1861 (Item FLI 108)

Edited by Captain Flinders' daughter, Anne Flinders Petrie (178p.)

Photographs connected with Matthew Flinders including portraits of and monuments to Flinders. (63 photographs) (Item FLI 109)

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