Guide to the papers of Edmund Webber (as filmed by AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Edmund Webber, 1817-1860

Title

Papers of Edmund Webber (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

20 August 1841 - 1842

Collection Number

M1640

Extent

2 items

Language of Materials

English

Repository

Australian Joint Copying Project

Sponsor

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Memoirs written while working as clerk in Auckland in 1842. They describe his first 20 years (1817-1837), including his service on the West African survey and the Mediterranean Station.

Journal 1841-1842 kept by Webber on the voyage from Van Diemen's Land to New Zealand on the Favorite in 1841, referring to his life in Van Diemen's Land, meeting with members of the Antarctic expedition led by J.C. Ross, Hobart Observatory, arrival at the Bay of Islands, life at barracks, attempts to obtain a government post, Governor William Hobson, and relations with Maoris.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Archival History

Filmed at the William Cookworthy Museum Old Grammar School, Devon, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1985 (AJCP Reel: M1640). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

The Kingsbridge Museum was formerly known as William Cookworthy Museum Old Grammar School, Fore Street, Kingsbridge, Devon, England.

Existence and Location of Originals

Kingsbridge Museum, Fore Street, Kingsbridge, Devon, England.

For further information see Kingsbridge Museum. [http://www.kingsbridgemuseum.org.uk/]

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn742978] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Finding-aid Notes

This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.

Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.

Subjects

Antarctica; Auckland, New Zealand; Australia; Bay of Islands, New Zealand; Favorite (ship); Great Britain; Hobart Observatory; Hobson, William, Capt.; Maori; New Zealand; New Zealand: immigration to; Ross, Sir James C., Admiral; Tasmania; Webber, Edmund

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 482, p188. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]