IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 WDR
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Woodriff Collection
Date(s): 1790-[1874]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 boxes and 1 file
Name of creator(s): Woodriff | Allan Robert | 1846-1876 | Lieutenant
Woodriff | Daniel | 1756-1842 | Captain
Woodriff | John Robert | 1790-1868 | Commander
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
See sub-fonds level descriptions for individual biographies.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Allan Robert Woodriff, consisting of service documents, 1868 to 1874, an undated letter from Woodriff (while a sub-lieutenant) to his mother and letters of condolence after his death.
Papers of Cpt Daniel Woodriff, they include a log, 1790; extracts from Woodriff's journal, 1794; copies and drafts of letters and memorials, 1805 to 1815; Woodriff's will, 1828, and that of his wife Sarah, 1846.
Papers of John Robert Woodriff, consisting of personal and service documents, 1802 to 1867, including a letter of 1842 from John Robert's brother, Commander Daniel Woodriff (1789-1860), whose papers are in the National Library of Australia at Canberra.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were presented by Miss O.M. Brodie in 1973.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Oct 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26