ABSTRACT
After the sale of some of the Hartwell papers at Sotheby’s in 1941, the remainder of the collection was handed to the British Records Association for distribution among the most appropriate archives. Ethel Stokes, secretary of the Association, wrote with a somewhat irritated tone that Lee had ‘kept almost every scrap of written paper that came to him’.1 His extensive archive of correspondence, personal papers and scientific notes is now spread across at least eighteen repositories in Australia, Britain, Canada, Sweden and the USA.2 For Lee’s early life, however, the records are patchier, possibly due to the unreliability of the post during the Napoleonic Wars. The only two surviving letters that he received during the execution of the tour described in this book are published in Appendix 2.
