Full title: Stapylton’s journal of Mitchell’s expedition / G. Stapylton

Author/creator: Dixon, Robert, 1800 - 1858, Stapylton, Granville William Chetwynd, 1800-1840.

Date: 25 March-7 November 1836.

Call Numbers: SAFE/A 332 (Safe 1/352)

Record Identifier: npAdwx41

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Formats: Manuscripts

Contents: 0.05 metres of textual material (1 volume) - 23 x 36 cm - manuscript

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Notes: “It is a peculiar journal, and none of it in Staplyton’s handwriting. Yet it is certainly Stapylton’s own – a record of his words, thoughts, and actions throughout the long expedition. Even the greater part of the revisions and marginal notes appear to be Stapylton’s though copies in various hands, as is the main text. The identity of the main copyist has been uncovered in the course of this research though the full province of the copy remains uncertain, and the fate of the original unknown. A copy though it is, there is no doubt that this is indeed `Stapylton’s Journal’ – pp.5 “Stapylton, nonetheless, did leave his journal – and the acquisitive Dixon had retained it. This was made clear in due course when Halloran was induced to make out an affidavit, signed on 15 March 1842. A summons was served upon Dixon to produce the journal, but there the trail stops. What can be supposed is that Dixon and some friends copied Stapylton’s journal before Dixon handed it over – if he ever did hand it over. One thing is certain, that the greater part of the manuscript of `Stapylton’s journal’ as we now have it is in the handwriting of Robert Dixon – pp.38-39 Reference: Stapylton: with Major Mitchell’s Australia Felix expedition, 1836 / Ed. Alan E.J. Andrews. Hobart : Blubber Head Press, 1986 This volume was originally bound with the spine title `Stapylton’s Journal of Mitchell’s Expedition, 1836-37. It was probably bound while still in the possession of D.S. Mitchell or already bound when acquired. Stapylton: with Major Mitchell’s Australia Felix expedition, 1836 / Ed. Alan E.J. Andrews. Hobart : Blubber Head Press, 1986 -

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