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MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS
 
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, April 15, 1815.
 
British Mercury
, no. 20 (May 15, 1790): 212.
 
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, October 19, 1779.
 
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(London), May 11 and 29, 1790; June 4, 1790; October 31, 1792.
 
Eastern Daily Press
(Norfolk), October 13, 2000: 30-31.
 
English Chronicle or Universal Evening Post
(London), March 13-18, 1790.
 
European Magazine, and London Review
, September 1805: 162ff; September 1819: 210-11.
 
Evening Mail
(London), October 29, 1792.
 
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser
(London), May 15, 1790.
 
General Evening Post
, March 16-18, 1790; April 10-12, 1792.
 
Hampshire Chronicle
(Southampton), November 5, 1792.
 
Hereford Journal
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Kentish Register,
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London Chronicle
, March 16, 1790; April 21-24, 1792; October 30-November 1, 1792.
 
Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser
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Manx Advertiser and Weekly Intelligence
, December 19, 1822.
 
Observer
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Oracle
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Reading Mercury and Oxford Gazette
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Even a cursory glance at the source material will reveal my debt to a great number of archives and individuals. Those deserving of special mention include: the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, whose collection of
Bounty
-related material is unrivaled. I am grateful to Martin Beckett for his friendly assistance over several years, and to Jennifer Broomhead for helping me navigate the various collections and references. This is the second project for which I am indebted to the Mitchell Library.
 
The Public Record Office, Kew, holds, amid much else, Admiralty files going back centuries. The retention of prosaic items such as ships’ musters, logs, lieutenants’ certificates, hospital records, invoices, and seamen’s wills, as well as the extraordinary bounty of actual records of naval courts-martial, makes possible the detailed reconstruction of events long past. I am grateful not only to be able to use this material, but for the opportunity to have delved into it.
The Manx National Heritage Library holds extraordinary material for
Bounty
scholars, such as the Christian and Heywood family papers and the underused Atholl papers. I am extremely grateful to the Manx National Heritage for the use of this valuable material, and to Roger Sims and Wendy Thirkettle for their assistance.
The Newberry Library, Chicago, holds one of the collections of Nessy Heywood’s correspondence, so central to this story. I am grateful for the use of this correspondence, and to Elizabeth Freebairn for her assistance.
I am grateful to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, for use of both its manuscript and picture holdings. To Kiri Ross-Jones I am grateful for answering my relentless stream of queries, and to David Taylor for his help with pictures.
The Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, has important Pacific and
Bounty
holdings. I am grateful for the use of this material, and particularly indebted to Tim Lovell-Smith for his unfailingly friendly assistance; he too is a colleague from a former project.
The Natural History Museum, London, holds one of the great repositories of Sir Joseph Banks’s correspondence. The material used was by courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, for which I am deeply grateful. I would particularly like to thank Neil Chambers for his friendly and invaluable assistance, and Malcolm Beasley for his help in managing the reproduction of much Banks material.
I am indebted to the British Library for use of its matchless holdings, and in particular for the use of material in the Oriental and India Office Collections.
My thanks are also due to the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and to Clare Brown and Greg Colley for much assistance.
The National Library of Australia holds much material valuable to the story of the
Bounty,
and I am grateful for its use. To Kay Nicholls and Graeme Powell I am grateful for their assistance with manuscript holdings, and to Wendy Morrow for her help with pictures.
The Huntington Library has extraordinary collections pertaining to eighteenth-century England. I am especially grateful to Gayle Barkley for her guidance and steady help over the past years.
I am grateful to the Algemeen Rijksarchief, Den Haag, for information about the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) holdings; I am particularly grateful to Victor van den Bergh for his assistance. Yosephine Hutagalung of the VOC archives in Jakarta was of great assistance to me.
I am grateful to the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for use of the Banks Collection, and to Kate Pickard for her patient help.
The Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Whitehaven, and the Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle, hold material important to the Christian and Curwen families, and also to the Heywoods. I am grateful for the use of this material, and also to David Bowcock, Catherine Clark, S. A. Gilder and Peter Eyre for fielding numerous requests.
To the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland I am grateful for furnishing me with a variety of material, and to Sally Harrower for her assistance.
I am grateful to the Nantucket Historical Association for the use of its marvelous collection of whaling records, and to Elizabeth Oldham for her assistance.
 
I also owe a debt of gratitude to a great number of individuals. To Aude and Airlie Holden-Hindley for their characteristic generosity and hospitality, I am more grateful than I can say. Long months of research were sustained by the comfort of their home away from home, in both London and Cumbria.
 
I am grateful to Maurice Bligh for both information and support.
To Glynn Christian I am grateful for his helpful guidance at the outset of my research, and for his book
Fragile Paradise;
we undoubtedly differ in our conclusions, but I do so with much respect.
I am indebted to Madge Darby for her thorough, detailed and patient responses to my numerous inquiries and for her tactful suggestions on the text. I look forward to her own book on the
Providence
voyage.
To Laura Bemis Rollison I am indebted for being my right hand over several years, and in particular for managing the tangled mass of bibliographic correspondence. It would have been difficult to undertake this project without her indefatigable backup.
I am grateful to Pieter Van Der Merwe for his careful reading of my text, and for saving me from many a lubberly slip; any errors retained are my own.
A number of people helped me comb archives and files; to Sara Lodge I am indebted for her careful investigations at the very earliest stage of this venture. To Bob O’Hara and Imelda Lauris I am grateful for much work in the Public Record Office. I am similarly grateful to Carole Carinne and Roger Nixon for help on the Isle of Man.
I am indebted to Gillian Rickards for much assistance in Kent. To Stephen Walters I am grateful for the use of key pictures, and for his early enthusiasm.
To Anne Kulig, Gary McCool, Susan Noel and indeed Lamson Library, Plymouth State College, in general, I am deeply grateful. Similarly, once again, I am indebted to Mary Delashmit of the Holderness Free Library, for her knowledgeable and efficient acquisition of a wealth of interlibrary loan material.
David Ransom of the Pitcairn Island Study Group, Andrea Martin at the Lincolnshire County Council, and Sophie Forgan at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum were of great assistance in assembling pictures.
Other people and archives that provided key assistance are:
 
Lyn Scadding and Kevin Ward, Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Services; Jeremy Taylor and Lisa Spurrier, Berkshire Record Office; Rachel McGregor, Birmingham Record Office; Bill Faucon, Boston Public Library; Liz Wigmore, Bury St. Edmunds Records Office; Lesley Akeroyd, County Record Office, Cambridge; Stephen White, Jackson Collection, Carlisle Library; J. Gill, Durham Record Office; Theresa Thom, Gray’s Inn; Michael Bosson, Sandon Hall, Harrowby Manuscripts Trust; Alan Akeroyd, County Record Office, Huntingdon, Cambridge; Clare Rider, Inner Temple; Catherine Howard, Institute of Commonwealth Studies; John Hodgson and Peter Nockles, John Rylands University Library of Manchester; Anna Watson and Bruce Jackson, Lancashire Record Office; Guy Holborn, Lincoln’s Inn; Jane Battye, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames; Rhys Griffith and Bridget Howlett, London Metropolitan Archives; Cathy Williamson, Mariners’ Museum; Robert Fotheringham, National Archives of Scotland; Christine Abbot, Newcastle City Council; Eric Hollerton, North Tyneside Council; Mrs. Sue Wood, Northumberland County Council; Bryce Wilson, Orkney Museum; Diana Gregg and Sarah Speller, Portsmouth City Council, Museums and Records Office; Alan Harkin, Reading Borough Council, Reading Central Library; Mark Pomeroy, Royal Academy of Arts; Clara Anderson, the Royal Society Archives; Alastair Brookham and Jonathan Harrison, St. John’s College, Cambridge; Phil Hocking and Andrea Pring, Somerset Record Office; Michael Page, Surry County Council; E. A. Rees, Tyne and Wear Archives; Tony Lawless, University College, London; Janet Bloom, William Clements Library, University of Michigan; Dr. Lesley Hall, Wellcome Trust; Stephen Parks and Ayesha Ramachandran, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Elizabeth Pridmore, York Minster Archives.

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