Edwin J. Turpin
Diary and narratives, and related papers
collected by Ian Diamond

MSS 92 T957

Access to Manuscript Collections

Series 1.  The diary and narratives of Edwin J. Turpin, 1870-ca.1894, transcribed from the original manuscript by A.I. Diamond. 1v.
(typescript)

Series 2.  Correspondence (principally with libraries and archives) relating to research on the Turpin Diary, with extracts from relevant papers.
1961-81. 3 manilla files.

Series 3.  Copies of Turpin papers in the Dixson Library.  5v.
(include Turpin's draft 'Life of Bully Hayes' and papers re George W. Evans, father of Mary Lempriere Turpin)

Series 4.  Article on Turpin by Ian Diamond. c1970. 1v. (typescript), and 'The search for Edwin Turpin' by A.I. Diamond (reprinted from Transactions and proceedings of the Fiji Society of Science and  Industry,  vol. 10 (1964-5)

Series 5.  Miscellaneous notes, extracts and copies of archival material relating to Edwin Turpin and to George William Evans (father of Turpin's wife Mary and deputy surveyor-general of New South Wales).  1 folder.

These papers were presented to the Library in June 1997 by Ian Diamond, former Archivist of the Central Archives of Fiji and the Western Pacific Hight Commission, who transcribed the manuscript when held in the Fiji archives and who had proposed to edit and publish the Diary as part of the ANU Pacific History Series.

A photostat of a typescript extract from the diary, received with papers from H.E. Maude in 1998, has been added to this collection. Another copy of the diary (a print-out from a microfilm copy of the transcript) was (in 1989) catalogued separately for the Pacific Collection (Pacific 919.61 T957d).