• Title
  Item 06: Letter from James Cook to Captain John Walker, Whitby, 14 September 1775
• Call number
  SAFE/DLMSQ 141
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  14 September 1775
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  971421
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Scope and Content
  Autograph letter signed, dated from Mile End, London, giving account of Cook's second voyage, with the Resolution and Adventure, reporting his visit to Dusky Bay & Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, Tahiti, Huaheine, Ulitea, Amsterdam & Easter Islands, the Marquesas; his discovery of New Caledonia and several other islands; and his satisfaction that no Southern Continent exists; with descriptions of the natives and natural history of the various islands. He concludes that he had hoped to 'put an end to all Voyages ... to the Pacific Ocean ... but the sending home Omiah will occasion another Voyage which I expect will soon be undertaken'. A typescript copy of the letter is included. pp. 1-8.
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D16029/a6120.html
• General note
  
  Transcript of the above by Sir William Dixson at DLMSQ 143.
  
  A facsimile of this letter is located in the Dixson printed books collection at Q97/2
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1004865
• Exhibited in
  
  Queen Mary 2 display - Cunard Line
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE465966

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