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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/LIB/5/1
Former ReferenceD3311/175
Title"The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle", edited by Edward Sabine
Date1821
DescriptionThe North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle was a weekly newspaper edited by Edward Sabine, which served as a form of entertainment and source of amusement for the officers of the Royal Navy expedition to winter over in the Arctic, at Winter Harbour on Melville Island, under the command of William Edward Parry. Its pages are filled with poems, jokes and anecdotes aimed at keeping morale high during the bleak and lightless months. The newspaper ran from 1 Nov 1819 to 20 March 1820.
On the front endpaper is a manuscript passage (in an unknown hand) on the pleasures of books.
Published by John Murray, London.
Bookplate of Philip Lyttelton Gell on inside front cover.
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
TermPoetry
Humour (literary)

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Winter Harbour 
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