Green manila folder labelled 'Dumont d'Urville NZ 1824'
- Containers:
- Box 4 (MS Acc22.020)
- Component identifier:
- File 61
- Content Summary:
- Contains a photocopy of just over a month from d'Urville's 'Ms journal de la Coquille', from 18 March to 19 April 1824. This was during his first visit to New Zealand. In 2007, Edward Duyker located d'Urville's Coquille journal in the possession of the Mairie de Condé-sur-Noireau (Ms 11). It had not previously been cited by any other scholar. Louis-Charles-Henry Dumont de La Londe, who inherited d'Urville's personal effects and manuscripts donated it and other documents to the municipality of Condé-sur-Noireau in 1904. The entire Coquille journal (not included in this folder) spans the period 24 October 1823 to 5 June 1824. D'Urville reworked parts as footnotes for his manuscript novel Les Zélandais ou histoire australienne. He also published sections as notes in the account of his later Astrolabe voyage. Other parts (missing in manuscript) survive as extracts in his Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. It is a very personal and highly significant, although incomplete.. It should not be confused with d'Urville's sparse summary (Ms 1602) preserved in the Bibliothèque centrale du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.
- Subjects:
- Exploration
History
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1391827).
- 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- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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