Conybeare correspondence

• MS 1532/1/1;D Letter to his parents, 27 June 1869 [Describing events in HMS Liverpool]
• MS 1532/1/2;D Letter to his parents, 18 July 1869 [Describing shore leave in Madeira and events in HMS Liverpool]
• MS 1532/1/3;D Letter to his father, 19 August 1869 [Description of Rio de Janeiro]
• MS 1532/1/4;D Letter to his parents, 7 September 1869 [Description of gale and shore trip to Montevideo]
• MS 1532/1/5;D Letter to his parents, 26 September 1869 [Description of events in HMS Liverpool]
• MS 1532/1/6;D Letter to his parents, 9 October 1869 [Results of his exams and shore leave in Cape Town]
• MS 1532/1/7;D Letter to his parents, 18 October 1869 [Regarding events in HMS Liverpool] incomplete
• MS 1532/1/8;D Letter to his parents, 12 to 24 December 1869 [Regarding events in HMS Liverpool] incomplete
• MS 1532/1/9;D Letter to his parents, 8 to 21 January 1870 [Regarding Hobart and shore trip to Lyttleton]
• MS 1532/1/10;D Letter to his parents, 4 to 25 March, 6 April 1870 [Describing shark catch and opium pipe]
• MS 1532/1/11;D Letter to his parents, 15 to 17 April 1870 [Requesting uniform be sent to Valparaiso an describing events in HMS Liverpool]
• MS 1532/1/12;D Letter to his parents, 16 to 25 May 1870 [From Vancouver Island describing man overboard incident]
• MS 1532/1/13;D Letter to his parents, 16 June 1870 [Written from Honolulu describing events in HMS Liverpool and future itinerary]
• MS 1532/1/14;D Letter to his parents, 2 to 16 August 1870 [Describing man overboard incident, sighting of Andes and laws in Valparaiso]
• MS 1532/1/15;D Letter to his mother, 21 August 1870 [Describing trip ashore in Santiago]
• MS 1532/1/16;D Letter to his father, 15 November 1870 [Written in HMS Liverpool]
• MS 1532/1/17;D Letter to his father, 25 November 1870 to 6 February 1871 [Describing trip ashore to Lyttleton, and regatta]
• MS 1532/1/18;D Letter to his father, 6 January 1872 [Describes Temple of Diana in Athens and operation to bring stones from the temple to the ship]
• MS 1532/1/19;D Letter to his father, 17 and 18 July 1873 [Describes fishing trip and coronation of King and Queen of Norway, written from HMS Hercules] 2 leaves
• MS 1532/1/20;D Letter to his father, 30 July 1873 [Description of state ball attended by king and Queen of Norway]
• MS 1532/1/21;D Telegram to his father, 25 January 1875 [News that appointment to HMS Research cancelled and going to Arctic instead]
• MS 1532/1/22;D Letter to his mother, 1 June 1875 [Describing conditions in HMS Discovery]
• MS 1532/1/23;D Letter to his parents, 22 June 1875 [400 miles from Cape Farewell describing weather conditions, first sighting of ice]
• MS 1532/1/24;D Letter [to his parents], [Second half of a letter describing change of plan]
• MS 1532/1/25;D Letter to his parents, 22 July 1875 [Describing glaciers from HMS Alert]

The correspondence is to Conybeare's parents, much of it relates to his time in Liverpool the flag ship of Admiral Hornby. Later letters relate to the British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876 (leader George Strong Nares)

The correspondence is arranged chronologically