Bligh - Signed documents

Item

Title
Bligh - Signed documents
Subject
Shipping
Sailors
Manuscripts, Dutch
Dutch East Indies
Correspondence
Category
1. Settlement
Author
Bligh, William
Keywords
Shipwrecks
Current holder
National Library of Australia
Period of reference 
1789 – 1938
Date
January 1, 1789
Series number
MS 5956
Item number
1381638
Access rights
Request at location
Rights 
Out of Copyright. Available for reference. Not for loan.
Country of origin
Indonesia
Language 
Dutch
English
Description from source
1 cm. (1 folder), Negative photographs. Most of the documents are accompanied by typewritten English translations apparently done by the Landsarchief van Nederlandsch-Indie, now the Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia, where the documents are housed. There is also a yearbook for 1937 (published 1938) of the Landsarchief. Negative photographs of 13 documents and letters, written chiefly in Dutch at Koepang, Sourabaya and Batavia, and most signed by Bligh. There are lists of the men on the "Resource" and the "Bounty" mutineers, descriptions of the revolts on both ships, interrogations by Bligh of the troublemakers, and requests to the Governor-General William Arnold Alting and members of the India Council.
Physical format
Manuscripts
Letters