Guide to the Journals of Alexander Weynton

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Retrospective journal covering voyages in Isabella Blythe, Castle Lachlan, Helen Stewart, Stag and Windsor, 1841-1854 (Item Volume 1)

237pp. + index. Weynton commenced writing this volume in 1851 and it is based on his original journals (including Volume II below for the period 1852-1854). In the years 1841-1854 Weynton visited Australia five times. The Australian sections are as follows...

Retrospective journal of Alexander Weynton, 1841-1854 [manuscript].

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Original journal and log covering voyages in Windsor, Balance, Northumberland and Orwell, 1852-1858 (Item Volume 2)

220pp. The entries for the voyages of the Windsor and Balance are much more detailed than in Volume I and, as is to be expected, the quality of the writing is far more variable. There are only logs (that is, single line entries giving position, course, distance, barometer, thermometer, winds, remarks) for the voyages of the Northumberland and Orwell, but on the Northumberland voyage there is a journal for the period that the ship was at Melbourne...

Original journal and log covering voyages in Windsor, Balance, Northumberland and Orwell

Entitled 'Abstract of illustrated journal of two voyages to Australia in the ship Orwell, 1859-1860 (Item Volume 3)

46pp. Actually not a journal but a log, with single line entries per day, giving position, course, distance, barometer, thermometer, winds, weather, remarks...

Retrospective journal of Alexander Weynton, 1841-1854 [manuscript]


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