Fifty-eighty pages of sepia drawings (12" x 6"), with captions and dates. The drawings give latitude and longitude, and appear to be competent renderings of coast profiles. The places featured include the Cape Verde Islands, Trinidad, Table Bay (including plan), Ceylon, Malaya and the East Indies, Macao, Sunda Straits, St Helena, Ascension and Britain. Some of the profiles, including those for Cape Town, Macao and Jamestown, St Helena, give details of buildings. None are signed, but several are inscribed 'taken by Mr Hodgson'.
Album of coastal profiles
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- ReferenceGB 115 RCS/RCMS 6
- Dates of Creation1783-12-30-1785-06-06
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish .
- Physical Description.003 cubic metre(s) 1 album art work
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The profiles were made on the 'Ponsborne', an East Indiaman, which voyaged to Madras and Whampoa and back under the command of William Hammett, 26 September 1783 - 6 July 1785. Although no 'Hodgson' is listed in the crew, the purser was John B. Hodson.
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Acquisition Information
Purchased 1909.
Note
Includes index.
Other Finding Aids
Case A18
Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), p. 51.
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Additional Information
This collection level description was created by RAS.
Hodgson, -, fl 1783-1785