Guide to the Papers of Charles Brown (as filmed by the AJCP), 1841-1983
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Summary
- Collection number:
- M1877
- Creator:
- Brown, Charles Armitage
- Extent:
- 12 items
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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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 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
- Availability:
- Available
- Access conditions:
- Available for reference.
Background
- Content Summary:
- The papers include a notebook, correspondence and official documents. The notebook was kept by Charles Armitage Brown on the voyage to New Zealand on board the Oriental. Correspondents include W.S. Landor.
- Biographical / Historical:
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Charles Armitage Brown (1787-1842) was born in London and had little formal education. He started his career as a clerk and as a young man was engaged in the fur-trading business in Russia. In 1817 he met the poet John Keats and together they did a tour of Scotland. For 15 months they shared lodgings at Wentworth Place, a house in Hampstead, and Brown cared for Keats when he developed tuberculosis. He was away in Scotland when Keats left England for Rome, where he died in 1821. In 1822 Brown took his son Carlino to Italy and they lived at Pisa and Florence, sharing a house with the artist Joseph Severn. While living in Italy he met many writers, such as Lord Byron, Walter Savage Landor, Leigh Hunt and Edward Trelawny.
In 1835 Brown and Carlino returned to England and settled at Plymouth. In 1840 he became a shareholder in the Plymouth Company, which aimed to colonise New Plymouth in New Zealand. In straitened circumstances, he decided that they should emigrate to New Plymouth. Carlino sailed on the Amelia Thompson and Charles on the Oriental, arriving in October 1841. He died suddenly in the following year.
Brown completed a memoir of John Keats in 1836, but it was not published until 1937.
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Access and use
- 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:
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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 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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