Guide to the Diary of John Smith (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M1135

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2018

Collection Summary

Creator
Smith, John, (Surgeon)
Title
Papers of John Smith (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range
1809 - 1838
Collection Number
M1135
Extent
9 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

Items filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project include: the Diary kept by John Smith, the surgeon on the barque Clyde, which transported 215 male convicts from Kingston, Ireland, to Sydney, 24 April – 15 September 1838, and correspondence of John Smith and certificates of appointment, 1811-1834.

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-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-987654321)

Existence and Location of Originals

Originally filmed at private residence: Mr A Low, West Drayton, Middlesex.

Originals now held by National Library of Australia. Collection Identifier: MS 6169. For more information see John Smith at the National Library of Australia

Existence and Location of Copies

National Library of Australia. Collection Identifier: MS 6169.

A digitised version of the diary is available at the National Library of Australia.

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-vn725813] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Archival history

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1979. (AJCP reel M1135). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Finding Aid note

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 The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.

Subject

Convict Ship: Clyde; John Smith; Surgeon; Convicts; Sydney; Cape of Good Hope; Dublin, Ireland;

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 419, p. 163

Item Descriptions

Diary of John Smith, the surgeon on board the barque Clyde, which transported 215 male convicts from Kingston, Ireland, to Sydney, 24 April 1838 - 15 September 1838 (File 1)

The diary refers to: Smith's examination of prisoners at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, the transfer of clothing, medicines, food, drink and other provisions, the sickness of some convicts, the departure of the Clyde from Kingston (11 May 1838), punishment of convicts for fighting, stealing and insubordination, the gradual removal of irons, the weather, dancing, cleaning of the decks, treatment of sick convicts, sighting of ships, landing at Cape Town (21 July 1838), the transfer of 20 military convicts from the Cape, the admission of convicts to hospital, sightings of whales and porpoises, cases of scurvy, the arrival at Port Jackson (10 Sept. 1838), payments to convicts, disembarkation, and a muster before the Colonial Secretary.

Certificates and other documents, 1809 - 1838 (File 2)

8 items

Includes the correspondence of John Smith and certificates of appointment, 1811-1834.

Letter from Bernard Murray, a convict on the Clyde, to Smith, thanking him for his kindness and reffering to Murray's convictions (Item)

Poster reproducing a letter from Lord Howick to the High Contable of Westgate, 27 April 1831 (Item)

Certificate appointing Smith as assistant surgeon on the hospital ship Gorgon, 30 March 1811 (Item)

Certificate appointing Smith as assistant surgeon on HMS Diligence, 31 January 1812 (Item)

Letter of instructions to Smith as surgeon on the convict transport Surrey, signed by Lord Melbourne, 27 March 1834 (Item)

Certificate appointing Smith as assistant surgeon on HMS Isis, 13 July 1809 (Item)

Certificate appointing Smith as surgeon of the sloop Harock, 11 May 1815 (Item)

Certificate appointing Smith as surgeon superintendant on the convict transport Surrey, 21 February 1834 (Item)


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