Intrepid British Explorer Matthew Flinders

The State Library of New South Wales recently acquired a very rare collection of letters and documents relating to the life of explorer and cartographer Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814). The collection came from Flinders descendants and includes original handwritten love letters as well as correspondence with family and friends, business documents, invoices from the HMS Investigator voyage around Australia
between 1801 and 1803, his will and funeral papers. Curator Paul Brunton OAM will provide a fascinating context for this archive as he talks about Flinders and his pivotal voyage of exploration.

Paul is Emeritus Curator at the State Library of New South Wales, where he was Curator of Manuscripts and Senior Curator. He curated an exhibition on Flinders in 2001. Among his books is Matthew Flinders: personal letters from an extraordinary life (2002).

Please join us for refreshments and a chat following the talk