July 2011
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Heywood Manuscript
27 letters completed. I’ve discovered that one of the letters I have on the site, from Peter Heywood to his mother from Batavia, is incomplete. I suspect others will be as well, as my source for them was a book about Nessy Heywood by A. W. Moore and the author apparently edited them before including them.
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Heywood Manuscript
I’ve finished the index page, added a little who’s who for the writers and recipients, made some adjustments to my editing program, and started transcribing the letters. There are actually 118, two are numbered 34.
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Heywood Manuscript
I’ve put the ebooks on hold as I’ve received jpeg images of the Heywood Manuscript from the State Library of New South Wales. The manuscript is a collection of poetry and letters of the Heywood family. The letters are primarily concerned with Peter Heywood and his appearance at the court-martial of the Bounty mutineers. I already have a few of these letters on the site, but this...
