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Charles J. Briscoe Collection
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CA RBD MSG 363
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4 cm of textual records. -- photographs.
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Name of creator
(1812-1887)
Biographical history
Charles John Chester Briscoe was born in 1812 or 1813 in the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean. He was the only son of Charles J. Briscoe, Esq. (before 1796-1830) and spent many years in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He served as the comptroller of St. Andrews customs until 1847, when he moved to St. John and took on the role of warehouse keeper.
He died on November 14, 1887, in Witney, Oxfordshire, England.
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The collection consists of a journal kept sporadically from 3 August 1835 to 4 July 1839 as well as a notebook titled "Mathematics, 1835;" a handwritten synopsis of the lives of Sir Herbert Taylor and Sir Charles Forbes; and a letter from Sir Charles Forbes to Lord John Russell, 1848, concerning Charles J. Briscoe and his family. It includes two black-and-white photographs of Charles J. Briscoe, a typewritten list of the "Loan collection of Mr. John Kerr", and a list of the lectures of the Philosophical and Geological Society by S. Frye, President, dated November 7, 1841.
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- English
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Also described in the McGill Libraries catalogue.
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Comprises 2 folders.