Content Description This notebook of a visit to Pitcairn Island in 1848 has a slightly damaged spine.On the inside front board is written...: Edward William Pritchard / Assistant Surgeon / HMS Calypso, 20 guns, Pacific.The notebook states on an early page...: 'Private opinions on things in general / Collections of mutual writing / During a cruise on the Pacific Station / between / Valparaiso, Callao, Pitcairns island, / Tahiti, Navigator, and Feegee...

Content Description This collection contains two sets of material:1. Letters to Dr. Lonsdale, of Rosehill, Carlisle, and addressed variously to: Cumberland Infirmary; Marine Crescent, Waterloo, Liverpool; Playhouse Yard, Thomas Street, Scarbro'; and, Teviot Row, Edinburgh. The letters show that he was assembling information with a view to overseeing a biography of his mentor, John Reid. The collection of letters contains material which would have formed the core of such a work which never came to...