Dr. Charles Burney. Letter to Lord Sandwich, 11 February 1784
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- Item 32
- Content Summary:
- Extract from letter of his daughter on opinion of Captain Phillips on music of South Sea Islanders; bamboo story implies infancy in music similar to ancient Greece; has asked whether singing in parts is peculiar to any one place in Pacific. (1p + 2pp extract)
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- For over 150 years the papers of Lord Sandwich were kept at the family seat, Hinchingbrooke House, Huntingdonshire. In the 1950s they were transferred to Mapperton House in Dorset. Some of the naval papers were reproduced in The Sandwich Papers, published by the Navy Records Society in four volumes in 1932-1936. They were also referred to in the edition of Cook's voyages published by the Hakluyt Society (1955-1968), Warren R. Dawson's edition of The Banks letters (London, 1958) and Phyllis Mander-Jones' Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (Canberra, 1972). Many of the papers were sold at a Sotheby's sale in London on 23 July 1985. Of the 17 lots, the National Library purchased three lots. Two other lots were bought by the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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