Manila folder (blue) labelled 'Collenberg DBM'

Containers:: Box 1 (MS Acc22.020)
Component identifier:: File 7
Content Summary:: This folder contains correspondence relating to the life of Gion Casper Collenberg, [aka Jean Gaspard Collenberg] (1733–1792) born in Lumbrien (canton des Grisons), Switzerland. In 1765, he sailed as a valet to the Isle de France (Mauritius) aboard the 1200 ton, 64-gun Comte d'Artois commanded by the future explorer Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne. Collenberg kept a journal, in the Romanche language of his native canton, which is today preserved in the library of the Claustra Mustér (Abbaye de Disentis). He reached the Isle de France on 18 March 1766, after a visit to the island of Rodrigues. The folder contains photocopied extracts of a French translation by Kurt Jeitziner of Collenberg's journal and Edward Duyker's draft entry on him for the Dictionnaire de Biographie mauricienne, no. 62, mai 2013, pp. 2434–7
Immediate source of acquisition:: This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

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Parent Terms of Access:: Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia