Letter from Louis de Freycinet to Barron Field

Title	Letter from Louis de Freycinet to Barron Field
Subject	Discovery and exploration--French Voyages and travels French letters
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de
Keywords	Uranie (corvette)
Person	Louis
Current holder	State Library of New South Wales
Date	July 6, 1820
Series number	SAFE/MLMSS 7704 (Safe 1/256)
Item number	n7oVmxln
Access rights	Digitised
Country of origin	Brazil
Place	Rio de Janeiro
Language	French English
Description from source	0.01 metres of textual material (letter in volume) - manuscript The letter was formerly owned by Paris collector Henri Ledoux. The first page of the letter is marked by his small red stamp showing his initials in a heart. Four page letter in French, with English translation provided by bookseller. Freycinet gives a personal account of the disaster which befell the Uranie and his efforts to save the ship and its crew. He tells Field of his intention to write a refutation of the article in the Quarterly Review which attacked the published account of the Baudin voyage for its alleged plagiarism of Matthew Flinders' work. He also writes of his friendship with Field and asks to be remembered to other colonists including the Macarthur, Piper, King and Macquarie families.
Physical format	Manuscripts Letters