Mss Eur F594/6/5/3

File of papers addressed to and compiled by R.A. Skelton, Honorary Secretary of the Hakluyt Society, relating to the project to publish a modern edition of the Journals of Captain Cook's Voyages. File relates primarily to the first volume The Journals of Captain Cook on his Voyages of Discovery: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771 edited by J.C. Beaglehole (Cambridge: 1955), including permissions for publication. Also includes some correspondence regarding preparations for the second volume The Journals of Captain Cook on his Voyages of Discovery: Volume II, The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775 edited by J.C. Beaglehole, with J.A. Williamson et al (Cambridge: 1961).

Correspondents include: Batchworth Press; John Easton, Robert Maclehose & Co; J.W. Davidson, St John's College Cambridge; L.F. Fitzhardinge, Australian National University; J.A. Williamson; Averil Lysaght; Malcolm Letts; Sir Maurice Holmes; Frank B. Maggs, Maggs Bros; George Naish, National Maritime Museum; E.G. Midgley; Sylvia Corner; Alan Villiers; A.D. McDonald, National University Library Australia; Dr W. von Borell, Westdeutsche Bibliothek; Marcel Aurousseau; Walter M. Whitehill, Boston Athenaeum; Gavin de Beer, British Museum (Natural History); H.L. White, Commonwealth National Library Canberra; Public Record Office; Frank B. Maggs, Maggs Bros; D.A. Dunstan, Advertiser Printing Office Adelaide; R.W. David, Cambridge University Press. Also includes correspondence with Lord Kilmaine, Secretary of the Pilgrim Trust, regarding costs.

Include dust jacket for volume I, together with advertising for volume II and subscription order form.

Originally material was contained in the same file together with Mss Eur F594/6/5/4.