Subject	New South Wales–History
	Sydney (N.S.W.)
	Legal documents
	French diaries
	Correspondence
	Convict labor
	Deportation
	Bankruptcy
	Poetry
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Grant, John
Keywords	Certificates
	Petitions
Current Holder	National Library of Australia
Period Of Reference	1769/1810
Series Number	MS 737
Item Number	2963493
Access Rights	Digitised
Rights	Copyright Undetermined. Available for research. Not for loan.
Country Of Origin	Australia
Place	Sydney
	Norfolk Island
Language	French
	English
Description From Source	0.26 cm. (2 security binders) + 4 folders. This collection consists chiefly of letters by Grant to his mother and sister in England, 1803-1810, and a journal, Jan. 1805 – March 1810, written in French and transcribed and translated by W.S. Hill-Reid, Yvonne Cramer and others. The letters and journal contain detailed accounts of Grant’s experiences in the colony and descriptions of the people and places he encountered, including Simeon Lord, John Palmer, Governor Bligh, and Vaucluse House. The collection also includes Grant’s “Bond of union”, 1805, his instrument of protest that resulted in his deportation to Norfolk Island. Also included in the collection are petitions ; certificates, legal documents; correspondence with Robert Campbell, 1806-1807; a notebook, 1809; poetry, 1804-1805; and other papers. The collection was discovered in the vaults of Lloyd’s Bank in London by Mr W.S.Hill-Reid.
Physical Format	Manuscripts
	Certificates
	Diaries
	Letters
	Notebook
	Poetry
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/B8BVV94R/